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A preserved East Yorkshire Motor Services bus with an arched roof passes under the Bar in August 2022. The two-storey structure is made of brick with buttresses on the North face either side of the archway. Above the centre point of the arch is a carved stone cartouche of a coat of arms.
Stockwell Garage is a large bus garage in Stockwell, in the London Borough of Lambeth, which opened in April 1952. [1] At the time of construction it was Europe's largest unsupported roof span. The garage provides 73,350 sq ft (6,814 m 2 ) of unobstructed parking space and could originally house 200 buses, required at a time when the last trams ...
Plaxton is an English builder of bus and coach vehicle bodies based in Eastfield, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1907 by Frederick William Plaxton, it became a subsidiary of Alexander Dennis in May 2007. In 2019, the maker was acquired by Canadian bus manufacturer New Flyer which then became NFI Group.
Buses have been used on the streets of London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating his horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City.In 1850, Thomas Tilling started horse bus services, [6] and in 1855 the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) was founded to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn omnibus services then operating in London.
The Swinging 60s Shuttle Bus route and bus number was the 60s with 18 allocated bus stops along its one-hour route. [83] This shuttle service ran until the end of the Rugby World Cup in October 2015 and has now been replaced by the Swinging 60s Tour Bus which still uses Routemaster RMLs on its many tours around London music venues and locations ...
Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary services. The Act: transferred the English and Welsh bus companies of the Transport Holding Company to the new National Bus Company
Epsom Coaches [1] was an English bus and coach operator based in the town of Epsom, Surrey. Formed in 1920, it closed in June 2017 after a corporate restructure. Formed in 1920, it closed in June 2017 after a corporate restructure.
The garage structure was said to have weighed 220 tonnes and 650,000 bricks and nine miles of electric cable went into its construction. [1] The Norwich PT Major transportation project, identified the need for a new bus station as the catalyst for the regeneration of an important social and commercial area of Norwich which was previously neglected.