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The next Railwayana auction at Thirsk (18th September) appears to be a proper live auction. https://www.thirskmarket.co.uk/Sales?Category=1_5

The Stagecoach in Cumbria bus to Center Parcs Whinfell Forest is the 104, not 103 as listed on your Google Sheet. I think there is at least one employees' bus service to Center Parcs from West Cumbria operated by Spencer Graham Coaches, but I can find no details. Stagecoach also operates (or...

2311 is, like 2315, a 4-CEP. 2311 has, as far as I am aware, never been used in passenger operation at the Eden Valley Railway. 2315 is the one used in passenger service, hauled/propelled by a pair of MLVs (S68003 and S68005) on battery power. The only time I recall 2311 moving beyond the...

I have a self-imposed rule that I will not take my car into The Lake District for leisure purposes unless there is no public transport available. As I have no desire to add to the excessive number of cars in The Lake District this means I almost always take the bus and some parts don't get to...

The Southern MLVs were originally S68001 to S68010 before becoming 9001 to 9010, so if the S prefix is ignored, then it is a possibility.

I was there too, with the Gretna contingent, which consisted of far more than the population of the place :lol:. The train back down the G & SW to Gretna and Carlisle was rather cosy, it being a pair of 156s. There was only one Jambo on that train, who took a lot of good natured ribbing. I was...

The Borders Railway campaign is mentioned as receiving £10m for a feasibility study. It is in the Enabling Infrastructure section of the Borderlands Growth Deal website: https://www.borderlandsgrowth.com/Projects-Programmes

My November 2005 Cumbria timetable book has the 604 (Wigton to Uldale) as being operated by John Ruiz (Town & Country Link), on Tuesdays and Fridays only. The Wayback Machine agrees with this (PDF file)...

The BEPs are actually CEPs, having had their buffet cars replaced by TSOs in September 2002 when they were also renumbered (2301 becoming 2311 and 2305 becoming 2315). There are three MLVs at Warcop, although one of them (S68010/9010) is not operational and is used as a second-hand goods shop...

My understanding is that the station house at Appleby East is owned by the scrapman. He rents the station yard which is owned by Railway Paths Ltd, who also own the trackbed from Appleby as far as the current limit of operation of the Eden Valley Railway (which is about 2.2 miles from Warcop)...

March 7th last year: First 39251 on route V2 from Atherton to Princess Street in Manchester, after a day spent riding and photographing the buses of Jim Stones.

There is something similar just off the B5322 in St Johns in the Vale, not too far from Keswick and the splendid Threlkeld mining Museum. I don't know what it is used for. Many years ago (2003) I photographed this one on a rather dodgy digital camera It can be seen on Google Streetview...

Another camping coach in Scotland is the ex GNSR 3rd composite dating from 1916 at Cromdale, not too far from Grantown on Spey & the Strathspey Railway. Being shorter than modern coaches it is a bit cosy and it is necessary to go outside to get from the bedrooms to the kitchen...

It was quite satisfying to find some information from part of my husband's large collection of little bits of paper & card :D. Not that I can complain about how much space it takes up in our house, as I suspect that my bus timetable collection takes up rather more :lol:

Mr Madannie has several TIMs from K&WVR, all from machine number 202, with dating from 1970 and the others unknown date as the printing is rather faint. The title on these is K.W.V.L.R. The Stage boarded box has also been changed to STA'N BOARDED.

The 198 printed vertically is the ticket machine number. I assume this has been replicated in the route number box, although I don't know why. 2865 is the ticket number, i.e. the 2865th ticket issued from that machine since it was made or reset to 0001. 1610872964 EDIT - added several hours...

My husband is a member of the Transport Ticket Society and tells me that the K&WVR used TIM tickets in their early days (he adds that the K&WVR have used a lot of different tickets over the years, but that is another topic). He promises to do a bit of searching in his collection tomorrow morning.

According to Delaine's fleetlist at http://www.delainebuses.com/fleet.html and their heritage trust website there were 2 Yeates double deckers (48 and 50) which were both Leyland PD3/1s.

Yorkshire Traction had the only Kirn Mogul, 208 (1901 HE), with East Lands Flyte bodywork

Sheffield Transport had a very diverse fleet when I was a child. The buses I remember best were Sheffield's Park Royal bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR2/1s of 1969 which took over my mother's favoured route into Sheffield from AEC Swifts. They were big (33ft long), had two doors and bodywork which I...