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Rally Calendar August 2008 |
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AUGUST
AUGUST 1-3 Cirencester. 34th Gloucestershire Steam & Vintage Extravaganza, Kemble Airfield. Free vintage bus service connects Cirencester and Kemble station with rally site. Free bus rides on the airfield to/from Bristol Aero Collection Museum. Includes Bedford OWB, OB & WTB Get Together on Sunday 3rd Details: John Hitchings, phone 0117 909 8043, 0774 641 2555 email website.
AUGUST 2/3 Bishops Lydeard. West Somerset Railway's 23rd annual steam fayre and vintage vehicle rally (approximately five miles north-west of Taunton). Quantock Motor Services will provide intensive free connecting buses to/from Taunton bus and railway stations. Further details on these will be available nearer the date from 01823 251140 email. Details: The Railway Station, Bishops Lydeard, Taunton, Somerset, TA4 3BX, phone: 01823 433856.
AUGUST 3 Alton, Hants. Volunteers from the Working Omnibus Museum Project will operate free vintage bus services from the Mid-Hants Railway station to Chawton and Selborne plus non-stop Alton tours. Details: John Hillier, phone 01276 23200, email or Glenn Turner, phone 02380 327959. Bolton Abbey, N. Yorks. Open-top (subject to availability) scenic bus service every 45 min 11.00-16.15 operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust Bolton Abbey station and village connecting with all trains on Embasy & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. website Crewe South Cheshire Rally at The Railway Age. Free bus services and tours to Nantwich, Sandbach, Alsager, Bridgmere Garden World and other destinations. Several routes inclube real ale bus stops. Purchase of programme allows free admission to The Railway Age for model transport and photo displays. Programme includes route details, maps and full working timetables with vehicle allocations. Feeder service from Hanley bus station 09.00 and Newcastle-under-Lyme 09.15, return departures approx 16.00 and 17.00 from Crewe. Frequient shuttle service from Crewe Rail and Bus Stations 10.00-17.00. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Mark Plant, 55 Elldawn Ave, STOKE-on-TRENT. ST6 8XD email. Crich. Emergency Vehicles Day. Details: website. Gosport Bus Rally and Running Day. Stokes Bay 10.00-17.00. Organised by Provincial Society. Vintage bus services, large static display of buses. Free shuttle bus connection from Gosport Ferry and cavalcade around Gosport. Details: Gerry Tormey, 30 Wises Court, Mumby Rd, GOSPORT. PO12 1DD email website. Herne Bay Bus Rally. Sponsored by Stagecoach East Kent. All proceeds to Demelza Hospice Care for Children. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Graham Young, Rally Organiser, Stagecoach in East Kent & Hastings, Bus Station, St George's Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2SY email. Ipswich Transport Museum joint admission day with Mid Suffolk Light Railway. See both museums in one day, ride on a steam train and take the connecting classic bus service (fare payable) connecting Ipswich bus and rail stations with both museums. Details: website. Middleton/Harrogate. 40th Trans-Pennine Run for pre 1968 buses from Birch Services, M62, Middleton to The Stray, Harrogate (no part of the route is on motorway). Featured marque is Leyland. No entry fee for pre 1950 vehicles, £5 for newer vehicles (includes free packed lunch for 2, illustrated colour souvenir programme and collectors attendance pack). Free admission to the public and all passengers. Organised by the HCVS. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Trans-Pennine Run, 6 Roxholme Terrace, Leeds, LS7 4JH or 74 Roger Lane, Newsome, Huddersfield, HD4 6PZ. Phone: 0113 262 3610 email. Shildon, Co. Durham. Leyland themed vintage bus day at Locomotion. Organised by Aycliffe & District Bus Preservation Society. Open to all. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Shildon 2008, 122 Regent Farm Rd, Gosforth, NEWCASTLE-on-TYNE. NE3 3HE Phone: Ian Wiggett,01325 317657. website. Tamworth Open day and free running day at Arriva Midlands depot to mark the 80th anniversary of its opening by Midland Red. Owners of ex Midland Red buses are invited to come along on the day; space will be madde available at the depot for some to be displayed along with parking close to the depot in Corporation St and Spinning School Lane for others. Arriva hopes owners of ex Midland Red vehicles will make their vehicles available for members of the public to have free rides on local routes on the day. Profits from the event will be donated to St Giles Hospice, Whittington, Tamworth. A commemorative £3 programme/timetable with maps and photos of visiting buses will be available and a £4.75 Arriva Midlands day ticket (post included) is availabel from the address below: Details: Keith Myatt. Communications Manager, Arriva Midlands, 852 Melton Rd., Thurmaston, LEICESTER. LE4 8BT. Phone 0116 264 0400 or 0780 134 8772. Walsall. Classic car & transport show, Arboretum Extension. Details: Transtar Promotions 01922 643385 website.
AUGUST 9/10 Crich. 1940s Weekend at Tramway Village. Relive the home front with rationing and air raids. Special reduced rates for those in 1940s costume. Details: website. Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum Blues and Twos Trolley weekend with visiting emergency vehicles, fire and rescue displays. 11.00-17.00. Admission: £5 adults, concessions £3, family ticket (two adults and up to four concessions) £15. Free parking. Free bus connection from Doncaster Interchange departs 12.30, returns 16.00 (Sunday only). website email.
AUGUST 10 Biggar, Lanarkshire Albion Foundation Rally, Showfield, Edinburgh Road. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Helen Carrick, 12 High Street, Biggar, Lanarkshire, ML12 6BN email. Bolton Abbey, N Yorks. Open-top (subject to availability) scenic bus service every 45 min 11.00-16.15 operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust Bolton Abbey station and village connecting with all trains on Embasy & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. website Bristol. Fifth rally and running day, Brislington Park-&-Ride (1,300 parking spaces), A4 Bath-Bristol road. Organised by Bristol Vintage Bus Group and Avon Valley Railway. Free bus services will operate to the Bristol Vintage Bus Group premises at Flowers Hill, Brislington and the AVR at Bitton, where steam trains and riverboat trips will operate. Organiser hopes to attract over 100 vehicles for the first time and will offer additional free journeys to cope with the growing number of visitors. Details: David Cole, Avon Valley Railway, Bitton Station, Bath Road, Bitton, Bristol, BS30 6HD. Phone: 0117 932 5538, email. Huddersfield Kirklees & Huddersfield Transport Rally, 11.00-16.30, St Andrews car park of the Galpharm Stadium, off St Andrews Rd and A62, Leeds Rd. Celebrating 125th anniversary of Britain's first municipally owned and operated transport service. Buses and coaches, trucks and cars. All municipal vehicles welcome. Heritage and modern bus service to/from bus station. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Kirklees Transport Group, 4 West Street, Lindley, Huddersfield, HD3 3JT. Phone: 07847 842892. Rotherham South Yorkshire Transport Museum open day, 12.00-16.00. Goods by road, rail and water. website Worcester Park, London. Running Day 11.00-17.00. Free vintage bus services over 1958 London Transport Central Area and Green Line routes between Sutton, Morden, Epsom and New Malden to commemorate 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of lowbridge route 127 (Morden - St Helier) following the 1958 bus strike. website.
AUGUST 16/17 Lathalmond, Fife. Scottish Vintage Bus Museum open weekend and Scottish National Road Run for Historic Commercial Vehicles, Sunday only. Open 10.00-17.00. Admission: £6, £3 children/oaps, £15 family, £10 weekend adult, including free travel on half-hourly vintage bus service to/from Dunfermline bus station. Daily trip across Forth Road Bridge (additional charge) Details: Eddie Taylor, SVBM, 17 Thimblehall Drive, Dunfermline KY12 7RH. Phone: 01383 720241. website. Ruddington. Phoenis transport rally at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre. website
AUGUST 17 Basingstoke. Sixth Hampshire Commercial Vehicle Road Run for all makes of buses, coaches and commercial vehicles. Organised by the Thornycroft Society. Sixty-mile run starts and finishes at Milestones Museum, Basingstoke and runs over 60 miles of gradients and attractive open countryside via Alton, Winchester and Whitchurch. Detail: Tom Mansbridge, phone 01256 322376. Bolton Abbey, N Yorks. Open-top (subject to availability) scenic bus service every 45 min 11.00-16.15 operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust Bolton Abbey station and village connecting with all trains on Embasy & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. website Crich. Rover SD1 Owners' Club National Day. Details: website. Leyland, Lancs. Atkinson & Seddon-Atkinson 10.00-17.00. British Commercial Vehicle Museum, King Street. Details: website. Milton Keynes. bus rally and running day, 10.00-17.30 Bus Station, Grafton Gate. Replaces previous years' Leighton Buzzard Running Day. Organised by Routemaster Owners Club. website.
AUGUST 22-24 Diepenbeek, Belgium. 2nd International Oldtimer Bus & Coach Rally. About 100 vintage buses expected. Details: Rik Vanheusden email. AUGUST 23-25 Hellingly, E Sussex. 33rd Festival of Transport catering for all types of transport including bus section. 100 trade stands. Site on A22 near junction with A267. Details: John Bishop, Grangewood, Amberstone, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1PE, phone: 01323 843202 email. Ilkley/Bolton Abbey. Days out with Thomas hourly 9.35-15.35 scenic service operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust Open-top bus (subject to availability) between Ilkley and Bolton Abbey stations in conjuction with Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. Also featuring Bertie and Bulgy at Embsay Station. website Sandtoft European trolley Weekend. 11.00-17.00. Selection of trolleybuses from around Europe. Admission: £5 adults, concessions £3, family ticket (two adults and up to four concessions) £15, parking free. Free bus connection from Doncaster Interchange departs 12.30, returns 16.00 (Sunday/Monday only). website. AUGUST 23/24 Beith, Ayrshire. Open weekend at the Beith Transport Collection 10.00-17.00. Free connecting bus service. Free admission. website.
AUGUST 24 Rotherham. South Yorkshire Transport Museum open day. Details: website
AUGUST 24/25 Birmingham. Operating days at The Transport Museum, Wythall. Monday is Big Operating Day, with connecting 750 bus to/from city centre. website. Crich Transport Extravaganza, Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire. Vehicle convoys parade down Tramway Street. website.
AUGUST 25 Cobham, Surrey. Cobham Bus Museum Road-Rail Day. A display and running day with a variety of vehicles some of which will provide rides between the museum and the miniature Great Cockrow Railway in Chertsey. Admission £5 includes unlimited bus rides, shuttle from Weybrisge Station and up tp 2 accompanied children under 16. website Sunderland. 24th North East Bus Museum Seaburn Historic Vehicle Display. Seaburn Recreation Park on the sea front. 09.30-16.00 Open to all classes. Entry £2.50 adult, £6 family, £1 concessions. Sponsored by Redby Coaches. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Ian Findlay, NEBPT, 1 Gullane, WASHINGTON. NE37 1SE. Phone: 0191 417 2539 email. website.
AUGUST 27-31 Blandford Forum. Great Dorset Steam Fair, Tarrant Hinton. Details: Show Office, Dairy House Farm, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset, DT11 8HT, phone/fax: 01258 860361 website. email
AUGUST 31 Bolton Abbey, N Yorks. Open-top (subject to availability) scenic bus service every 45 min 11.00-16.15 operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust Bolton Abbey station and village connecting with all trains on Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. website Norwich Bus Rally, Norfolk Police Gala Day and Radio Norfolk Car Rally, Norfolk Showground. Display and vintage bus rides. Details: Rally Organiser, 78 Park Road, Norwich, NR10 3PJ. E-mail Paignton seafront. Torbay Bus & Coach Festival with old and new West Country buses. Free service to and from Torquay. Details: PB Bus Marketing Specialists (Torbay), 2 Trafalger Close, Chandlers Ford, EASTLEIGH. SO53 4BW. |