COVER: Western National 1411 (LTA 750), a 1950 Bedford OB with Duple Vista body in Royal Blue livery.
Welcome to your annual guide to bus and coach enthusiast events between now and spring 2025.
Among anniversaries being celebrated this year are the introduction of two legendary vehicles — the 85th of the Bedford OB at the Transport Museum Wythall on May 18/19 and the 70th of the London Routemaster at Chiswick on July 20/21.
The Museum of Transport Greater Manchester is marking 200 years of public bus services — the first linked Salford and Manchester — with a whole season of themed events.
Undaunted by the fire which wrecked one of its lovingly restored favourites, the Friends of King Alfred Buses will launch the latest addition to its working fleet, an early postwar Leyland Titan PD2, at its running day on May 6.
Buses Festival returns to Sywell in Northamptonshire on Sunday September 1. Four events return after an absence. The South East Bus Festival, at the Kent Showground on April 6, will be mark an anniversar y it was unable to celebrate in 2023 when flooding caused its last-minute cancellation. The Coronation clashed with the planned date for last year’s HCVS London-Brighton run, which retur…
