Wood Farm Camp (144) Service.
Posted: 22:46 Thursday 20th October 2016
Mentioned in a different post ( Here ) was a service to Wood Farm Camp. I've been trying to find out more about this but it appears to be quite elusive.
It would seem that sometime around the end of 1956 a short-working journey of Service 144 was added running on Tuesday mornings only from Wood Farm Camp 10:00 to Great Malvern, with a return departing at 12:40.
Wood Farm Camp was a military base of some type near Malvern Wells, and I believe the site is now the home of the Golf Club.
The service needed to be worked with a single-deck bus so I'm guessing low trees were an issue, and as it carried route number 144 I'm guessing it was open to anyone to travel yet it was not shown in timetables. As it was mentioned in the post about the additional D9 at Malvern it was still running in 1967, but I have unable to find a date it was withdrawn. Maybe when the Camp closed?
That is all I can find about this odd working of the 144. Does anyone else know about this?
It would seem that sometime around the end of 1956 a short-working journey of Service 144 was added running on Tuesday mornings only from Wood Farm Camp 10:00 to Great Malvern, with a return departing at 12:40.
Wood Farm Camp was a military base of some type near Malvern Wells, and I believe the site is now the home of the Golf Club.
The service needed to be worked with a single-deck bus so I'm guessing low trees were an issue, and as it carried route number 144 I'm guessing it was open to anyone to travel yet it was not shown in timetables. As it was mentioned in the post about the additional D9 at Malvern it was still running in 1967, but I have unable to find a date it was withdrawn. Maybe when the Camp closed?
That is all I can find about this odd working of the 144. Does anyone else know about this?