Derbyshire Dales independent bus and Coach companies of the 70s and 80s

[Open top 80]

Does anyone one remember any Derbyshire Dales independent bus and Coach company in the 80s and 90s?

 

[TheSel]

Are you thinking of someone like 'Silver Service'? Or Andrew's of Tideswell or Webster's of Hognaston, perhaps?

I don't know whether these books are still available, but seek out:

'Riding with Silver Service' - Lowlander Publications - ISBN 0 946930 01 5 (first published 1986)
'Riding with Hulley's of Baslow' - Terminus Publication - ISBN 0 946930 13 9 (first published 1991)
and, although not confined to independent operators, 'Omnibus Operations through Derbyshire' - Lowlander Publications - which doesn't seem to have an ISBN number or publication date, but the most 'up to date' photo in it seems to be 1983.

 

[Open top 80]

Are you thinking of someone like 'Silver Service'? Or Andrew's of Tideswell or Webster's of Hognaston, perhaps?

I don't know whether these books are still available, but seek out:

'Riding with Silver Service' - Lowlander Publications - ISBN 0 946930 01 5 (first published 1986)
'Riding with Hulley's of Baslow' - Terminus Publication - ISBN 0 946930 13 9 (first published 1991)
and, although not confined to independent operators, 'Ominbus Operations through Derbyshire' - Lowlander Publications - which doesn't seem to have an ISBN number or publication date, but the most 'up to date' photo in it seems to be 1983.

I think Andrew's of Tidewell operated the 173 Tidewell to Bakewell route before deregulation (1986)

 

[m79900]

Ennis of Wirksworth operated various school and shopping contracts, as well as private hire coaches. They used to be based at the railway station.

 

[Open top 80]

Ennis of Wirksworth operated various school and shopping contracts, as well as private hire coaches. They used to be based at the railway station.

Think Ennis also ran a bingo bus to Derby from Wirksworth .

 

[gazmark]

Whites of Calver used to operate the 65 / 66 over to Tideswell and Buxton. Silver Service later became Kingsman Travel after Yorkshire Terrier took over and closed it down to a coaching operation and running the X46 to Killamarsh. Most of the Peak District routes passed to Hulleys I think

 

[Open top 80]

Yes I remember Whites of Calver .they ran the Sunday service on the 199 Buxton to Stockport

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Confess it isn't an area I know, but wasn't it that Whites of Calver were purchased by Chesterfield Transport as they sought to diversify their operations (including the Retford outpost too)?

Also, I recall (many years ago) reading an article from JT Cash (who was the Traffic Manager) that Silver Service in the 1980s was an unhappy merging of Wooliscroft of Darley Dale, and Hulleys. Quite how or if the merger was unpicked, or whether ops were centralised on Baslow with the coaches being sold later? Don't know but the Hulleys name came back in the late 1980s, I think

 

[TheSel]

Confess it isn't an area I know, but wasn't it that Whites of Calver were purchased by Chesterfield Transport as they sought to diversify their operations (including the Retford outpost too)

Yes, it was. If I get a chance, I'll scan a couple of slides of vehicles in Chesterfield livery, with Whites fleet names, and update this post later.

EDIT: Photos attached (both my own).

Chesterfield (Whites of Calver fleetname) 307 - PRA110R - Sheffield, Moorfoot. June 1994.



Chesterfield (Whites of Calver fleetname) 310 - AYR322T - Chesterfield. May 1994

 

[gazmark]

Confess it isn't an area I know, but wasn't it that Whites of Calver were purchased by Chesterfield Transport as they sought to diversify their operations (including the Retford outpost too)?

Also, I recall (many years ago) reading an article from JT Cash (who was the Traffic Manager) that Silver Service in the 1980s was an unhappy merging of Wooliscroft of Darley Dale, and Hulleys. Quite how or if the merger was unpicked, or whether ops were centralised on Baslow with the coaches being sold later? Don't know but the Hulleys name came back in the late 1980s, I think

Whites were purchased by Chesterfield Transport, most of the work was lost or passed over to Stagecoach.. Also you're right with wooliscrofts and Hulleys. I think the merger happended around 1979 and the split took place when Terrier bought Silver Service. I'm happy to corrected if anyone else knows anything else

 

[TheSel]

Back to the original question, I've dug out the 'Peak District Public Transport Timetable' book for May 1984 (price 35p!), and it includes the attached lists of operators and their services. Scans attached below.