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Rally Calendar August 2009 |
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AUGUST
JULY 31 - AUGUST 2 Cirencester. 35th 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. Details: John Hitchings, phone 0117 909 8042 email website.
AUGUST 1 Hemingborough, N Yorks. Diamond Jubilee Running Day at Thornes Coaches, 9.30-17.00. A park & ride service will be in operation from the local business park (no parking at Thornes) and a free service from Selby Bus Station, plus short local excursions. There will be a film sho recalling operational vehicles dating back as far as 1967. The defunct Selby-Market Weighton service will be re-enacted to the 1955 timetable.The firm's four operational heritage vehicles - together with guest heritage buses - will be in operation, together with selected vehicles from the operational fleet. There will also be a static vehicle diplay and stalls. Details: (sae) Thornes Independent, The Coach Station, Hull Road, Hemingborough, SELBY. YO8 6QG email website.
AUGUST 1/2 Norton Fitzwarren. West Somerset Railway's 24th annual steam fayre and vintage vehicle rally (approximately five miles north-west of Taunton) with class for pre 1970 buses & coaches. 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. email website. All enquiries about bus and coach entries to Steve Lord, Farriers Cottage, 394 Shawclough Road, Lowerfold, ROCHDALE. OL12 7HR, phone 01706 357928, email
AUGUST 2 Alton, Hants. Volunteers from the Medstead Depot Omnibus Group will operate free circular vintage bus services from the Mid-Hants Railway station to Chawton. Details: John Hillier 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 Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway 11.00-16.00. website Crich. Emergency Vehicles Day. Details: website. Eastbourne mini event organised by Country Bus Rallies and based at Eastbourne railway station. Services are planned along the seafront and also to Pevensey Bay, Polegate, Beachy Head and Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway. Details: Clive Wilkin, phone: 0239 236 3478 email. Country Bus Rallies, 19 Hampton Way, East Grinstead RH19 4SG email. website. Programmes and vehicle diagrams: £5.50 (A5 stamped addressed envelope please) from address above, or £6 on the day. Usually available one month before the event. Gosport Provincial Bus Rally, 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 for Portsmouth and train links. Details: The Provincial Society, 30 Penhale Gardens, FAREHAM. PO14 4NL email website. Ipswich Transport Museum joint admission day with Mid Suffolk Light Railway 11.00-16.00. 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. 41st Trans-Pennine Run for pre December 1989 buses, coaches & lorries from Birch Services, M62, Middleton to The Stray, Harrogate (no part of the route is on motorway). Featured marque is Morris & Morris Commercial. No entry fee for pre 1955 vehicles. Organised by the HCVS. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Trans-Pennine Run, 6 Roxholme Terrace, Leeds, LS7 4JH Phone: 0113 262 3610 email. Shildon, Co. Durham. Classic Bus Display at Locomotion. Organised by Aycliffe & District Bus Preservation Society. Free entry to rally site and railway museum. Free classic bus service around Shildon. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Shildon 2009, 122 Regent Farm Rd, Gosforth, NEWCASTLE-on-TYNE. NE3 3HE Phone: 0792 903 6997. website. Shaftesbury, Dorset. Bedford Southern Rally at Wessex Vintage Festival, Motcombe Turnpike Showground marking the 75th anniversary of Bedford Drivers Club and 70th anniversary of the launch of the Bedford OB coach Details: Carole Williams, Bedford Register & Drivers Club, 9 Nevill Street, ABERGAVENNY. NP7 5AA email. Stoke-on-Trent. Potteries Connection running day, 10.00-17.00, Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton. Modern, classic and vintage buses operating at least 15 city and rural routes including real ale pub and photo stops. Regular services to Churnet Valley and Foxfield preserved railways. Timetable guide available on the day includes detailed route maps, photographs and full working timetable with vehicle allocations. Feeder services from Crewe rail station (09.00), Derby rail station (09.00), Stafford rail station (10.00) and Uttoxeter Bus Station (08.30 & 09.30). All feeder services return from Gladstone departing between 16.00 and 17.00. City shuttle service operating every 30 minutes starts from Hanley Bus Station 09.00 onwards. Admission to the event and all bus rides are free. Discounts available for Pottery Museum tour. Details: (sae) Mark Plant, 55 Elldawn Avenue, Norton, STOKE on TRENT. ST6 8XD email website. Walsall. Classic car & transport show, Arboretum Extension. Details: Transtar Promotions 01922 643385 website.
AUGUST 8/9 Crich. 1940s Weekend at Tramway Village. Relive the home front with rationing and air raids. Special reduced rates for those in 1940s costume, but no German, Japanese or other Axis uniforms, please. 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 (Sunday only) departs 12.00, returns 16.00. website email.
AUGUST 9 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. Details: website Bristol. Sixth 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. Herne Bay, Bus Rally. William Street car park NEW VENUE Details: phone 01227 366828 Lamport, Northants. Bedford Anniversary rally, Lamport Hall marking the 75th anniversary of the launch of the Bedford Drivers Club and the 70th anniversary of the laukch of the Bedford OB coach. Details: Carole Williams, Bedford Register & Drivers Club, 9 Nevill Street, ABERGAVENNY. NP7 5AA email. Leyland, Lancs. Foden & ERF Transport Gathering 10.00-17.00. British Commercial Vehicle Museum, King Street. Details: website. Rotherham South Yorkshire Transport Museum open day. Details: website
AUGUST 12-14 Penzance-Aberdeen Royal Blue/National Express re-enactment, via Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Carlisle, Perth & Dundee. Returns via Lathalmond open weekend (see below). Details: (sae please) Colin Billington, Ledger Farm, Forest Green Road, Fifield, MAIDENHEAD. SL6 2NR, phone 0799 050 5373, email.
AUGUST 15 Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. Western Isles Vehicle Preservation Group Motor Show, Tong Showground. All classes of vehicles, tractors and plant welcome. Details: Jim Beresford, phone 01904 769232 or Calum Maclennan phone 0776 513 1493, email, website
AUGUST 15/16 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. Vehicle entries invited. Limited edition (only 300 produced) Creative Master Stagecoach Strathtay Dennis Trident/ALX400 on sale to raise museum funds (email or sae to Susan cameron, 8 Allander Drive, Torrance, GLASGOW. G64 4LG for info on model). Model Bus Federation Scotland West will also have a large display on both days. Details: Eddie Taylor, SVBM, 17 Thimblehall Drive, Dunfermline KY12 7RH. Phone: 01383 720241. email website. Luton/Milton Keynes. Bedford OB 75th Anniversary Get Together, General Motors Heritage Centre, Luton. Saturday tours of heritage Centre. Sunday starts 0900 with attempt to set a new record for the greatest number of OBs together in the 21st century as part of the larger Bedford open day. Road Run (17 miles) leaves 12.00 for Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes. Entrants encouraged to wear 1940a & 1950s costume. Free to all Bedford owners and passengers (other Bedford models invited by prior arrangement). Secure overnight parking available before 1800 Saturday Details: Tim Wootton, phone: 01296 713860. email website.
AUGUST 16 Basingstoke. Seventh 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. 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. Details: website Hemel Hempstead Running Day. 10.00-17.30. Based at Waterhouse Street Bus Station. Organised by Amersham & District Motorbus Society. Details: Programme/timetable available for £5 from one month in advance (£6 on the day) from Peter Cartwright, 54 Guinions Road, High Wycombe, HP13 7NX. Phone: 01494 437750. email Leyland, Lancs. Atkinson & Seddon-Atkinson 10.00-17.00. British Commercial Vehicle Museum, King Street. Details: website.
AUGUST 23 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. Details: website Nuneaton. Arbury Hall Classic Car & Transport Show. Details: Transtar Promotions, phone 01922 643385 website.
AUGUST 29-31 Hellingly, E Sussex. 34th Festival of Transport catering for all types of transport including bus section. 100 trade stands. Site on A22 near junction with A267. Details: Tim Young, Mount House Cottage, High Street, BURWASH. TN19 7EH, phone 01435 883501 or 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 Six Wheeler Trolley Days. 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. Details: website.
AUGUST 30/31 Birmingham. Operating days at The Transport Museum, Wythall. Monday is Big Operating Day, with connecting 750 bus to/from city centre. Details: website. Crich Transport Extravaganza, Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire. Vehicle convoys parade down Tramway Street. Details:website. Tabley, Cheshire. Bedford Anniversary rally and North West Festival of Transport, Cheshire County Showground, near knutsford, marking the 75th anniversary of the launch of the Bedford Drivers Club and the 70th anniversary of the laukch of the Bedford OB coach. Details: Carole Williams, Bedford Register & Drivers Club, 9 Nevill Street, ABERGAVENNY. NP7 5AA email.
AUGUST 31 Cobham, Surrey. Cobham Bus Museum Display & Running Day with special bus links to Clandon Park and Hatchlands Park National Trust properties. Admission £5 includes unlimited bus rides, shuttle from Weybridge Station and up to 2 accompanied children under 16. Details: website Deal, Kent. Friends of the East Kent bus event at Fowlmead Wildlife Park, off the A258 Sandwich Road (former Betteshanger Colliery) to mark 10th anniversary o FotEK and 20th of colliery closure. Free buses shuttle every 15min from Deal and 30min to Sandwich and singledeck tours every hour to sites of Tilmanston and Snowdown collieries. Details: Barry Burlingham, 0793 144 6244 website Ipswich Transport Museum Ride a Fire Engine Day. 11.00-16.00. Details: website. Warminster-Frome vintage bus and coach service 253 will operate in conjunction with Corsley Country Show, near Warminster, mainly with vehicles from the Kelvin Amos collection. Details: Free timesheets can be obtained after 1 August (sae, please) from UK Transport Services, 4 Saxon's Acre, WARMINSTER. BA12 8HT Sunderland. 25th North East Bus Museum Seaburn Historic Vehicle Display. Seaburn Recreation Park on the sea front. 10.00-16.00. Entry £3 adult, £1.50 concessions. Sponsored by Snaith's Coaches of Otterburn. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Ian Findlay, NEBPT, 1 Gullane, WASHINGTON. NE37 1SE. Phone: 0191 417 2539 email. website. |