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My car has the makers name and the car model all over it in chrome letters like most cars. Trucks have their makers names over them too, but with buses, it seems not. Why?

The 11 Horton in Ribblesdale - Tosside, currently operated by North Yorkshire County Council, is to be extended to Clitheroe from 8th April. This fills a bus free hole in Bowland. Passes a lot of nothing and takes 1hr 15min from Settle to Clitheroe. Kudos to N Yorks and Lancashire for trying...

I suppose most would think of the demolition of Euston, and the removal of the Doric arch. But I think this is worse - Its the north concourse at Leeds station, built by LMS in 1937 when they built the Queens Hotel and the Aire Street offices. But BR made the fine Art Deco concourse into a...

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At settle Jct going south, first you come 2 a colour light distant. one on each branch. Then a semaphore stop signal on each branch. There is the pointowork where the barnches actually join, then there is a semaphore stop signal. I imagine this is designated the up home. Yiou can see the top...

I'll start with the Right Reverent Erid Treacy MBE, Bishop of Wakefield. (1907 - 1978) He was also a renowned rail photographer. Roger Bullivant. He was a musician, including directing the Sheffield Bach Choir, and also played the harpsichord. I was travelling with a musician friend of my...

This thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/career-change-to-bus-driver-kendal.259660/ has gone a little off topic discussing travel between the depot and joining your bus and vice versa. This is about how the staff travel between the depot and their bus. So what companies run staff...

No holds barred. UK or foreign. Modern or preserved. What do you want to tick off next year? Me:- Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum Dewsbury Bus Museum and ride a Guy Wulfrunian Oldham - Huddersfield - Halifax - Rochdale - Oldham 555 Lancaster - Keswick all the way in one go Malton - Whitby Sheffield...

Mine was an AEC Swift with Metro Cammell Weymann bodywork, operated by Leeds City Transport. To a kid in the late 60's it was the height of modernity. New in 1968 when I was 12.

I enjoy going on round trips by train - out one way, back another. But wbat ticket? So for Harrogate - York - Leeds I would buy a day return to Church Fenton. But I am unsure if I can exit the stations at Leeds or York. and does the train I catch between York and Leeds have to stop at Church...

I am aware of the war memorial at Kings Cross. But I was wondering if there was a separate LNER one at Liverpool St or elsehere I ask Because by my great aunts husband, an LNER Railwayman,(Percy George Morgan) was killed in an air raid in Ilford in Jan 29th 1944. Also killed were his wife (my...

This cropped up on a Bus facebook group Its a Leeds City Transport bus going over a level crossing. Its from an era when there were no electrified lines in Leeds but its probably a private hire widening the area where it could be But of interest to the rail section of this site are the rows of...

As many will know the first digital computer was the 'difference engine' developed by Babbage in the 1840's It was a mass of sliding bars running 'programs' that were programmed. It seems to me there are quite large similarities between the interlocking under mechanical signal boxes, and the...

I had reason to go to Airedale Hospital yesterday early afternoon (All OK) But Kildwick level crossing was closed to road traffic and police were in attendance Bit of a snarlup in Crosshills but not too bad. Anyone know what the issue was? And did it affect the trains or just road traffic? I...

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Yes, I know its a tram, but I am interested in the colour light signal on the rail bridge Looks like an LNER one but I am unsure Pic is lower end of Briggate and the bridge is the western approach to what is now Leeds station. I am not sure of the signalling arrangments at Leeds before the...

As far as I understand it, it's not allowed for owners of preserved buses to charge for bus rides at veteran vehicle events. It costs a shedload of cash to run a bus to and from the venue, and to the rides. Many events buses carry a bucket for people to contribute, but many riders just ignore...

Came across this today 'Boche-Buster', a 250-ton 18-inch railway gun, Catterick, 12th December 1940. The gun later travelled down to Kent to take up position at Bishopsbourne on the Elham to Canterbury Line, taken over by the Army for the duration." The gun was in fact an 18 inch howitzer...

Take the Leeds Lancaster service Leeds platforms pointing west are up. Trains to London go from them As Leeds West Junction I assume the line towards Skipton becomes a down I assume its down all the way to Carnforth North Junction where it becomes an up to Lancaster The once a week train to...

Any other info about them Pic taken at Kirkham and Wesham today