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As someone brought up in Worcestershire, I was always led to believe that all "proper" buses were red. True in Malvern, there was the occasional sight of Bristol 'blue' (never could quite work that one out!) green buses but they looked very drab and uninspiring compared to the local fleet....

Sorry, Tim - just realised I thanked the wrong person for the Royal Scot photos. They reminded me a bit of my trips to Shrub Hill in the late 1950's and early 60's to see The Devonian (Bradford to Paignton train) which used to call at around 2:15 pm I think. It was usually hauled by a Jubilee, the o...

Thanks for some excellent pictures of a fine locomotive, Adam. I particularly liked the one at Shrub Hill with the semaphore signals (although of course the loco would have been more familiar with upper quadrant, rather than those of the GWR lower variety!). The picture with the lush weed strewn tra...

We travelled on a Dash from Birmingham to the Isle of Man and back a couple of years ago and I agree with the comments of the two Adams. Mind you we almost didn't make it as the tow bar on the tug collided with the front of the aircraft as it was hitching up. A loud bang and quite a judder indicated...

I can remember in the 1950's, Midland Red producing a fairly plain office type calendar, I assume mainly for their own use but they were also available I think free of charge if you asked nicely in one of the local enquiry offices, as we did in Richmond Road, Malvern Link. They also produced for man...

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19:51 Thursday 5th October 2017

Good to hear you have got something back. Although it still doesn't solve the problem of what you need to buy once the vouchers are all used up.

And not really fair on those unlucky customers who don't have the good fortune to be readers of this Forum!

I believe Johnsons have their own body shop so no real excuse for the condition back in 2012 but, in fairness, their buses, from a distance at least, do generally seem to be in pretty good condition Admittedly I don't travel on their buses very often but I haven't really come across any which I woul...

That is correct, in the mid-eighties, Bromsgrove College as it was then known, acquired a Bedford / Plaxton coach - ENM 1 T [new to Smith of Tring] to operate this service, it was maintained by Worcestershire County Council at either its Warndon or Lydiate Ash depots. Late in 1991 ,H&WCC acquir...

Looks superb and, although Nationals were not my favourite buses to travel in, very glad it has been preserved, as they did play a significant part in bus development and in their era were to be found all over the country but none looked smarter than in Midland Red West livery. Looking at 658 today,...

I got quite excited when I heard that there might be an X44 and/or an X43! A revival of the motorway express service perhaps? Memories came flooding back of many exhilerating journeys, particularly for me on a Saturday when many of the departures would be duplicated. But then I guess, if ever they w...