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Rally Calendar May 2009 |
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MAY 1-3 Newquay. Western Greyhound Running Days. Details: A chance to ride Cornwall's rural roads on their heritage fleet. website. 2 Bolton. Ribble Preservation Trust Ribble 90 display of preserved Ribble buses (vehicles by prior arrangement only). 10.30-16.30 Town Hall Square. Details: website. 2/3 Eastbourne. Magnificent Motors. Seafront, taking in over 400 pre-1980 vehicles, including buses, cars and motorcycles. Details: Events Team, Eastbourne Borough Council, Tourism & Planning Division, 1 Grove Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4TW, phone: 01323 415442. email website. 2/3 Minehead Quantock Motor Services running weekend and vintage rally with variety of vintage/heritage and interesting vehicles on a variety of routes. Details: phone 01823 251140 or email website website email.2-4 Llandudno Transport Festival at Bodafon Fields (seafront showground) with Crosville Gathering (Sunday only) and Gt Orme and Conway Road Runs. Shuttle bus service to Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza in town centre. Admission £4.50 adult, £4 concessions, £1 child, car park £1.50. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Len and Sandra Ricketts, Llandudno Transport Festival, 48 Church Road, Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay, Conwy County, LL28 4YS. Phone/fax: 01492 545053 (up to 22.00). website. 2-4 Rushden, Northants 31st Cavalcade of Transport and Country Fair, new site off A6 to south of town. Road cavalcade leaves Sanders Lodge, Rushden 12.00 Saturday. Bedford Road Run leaves Kingsway Car Park, Bedford 10.30 Sunday. Great Ouse Vintage Vehicle Rally road run leaves Riverside Park, St Neots 10.30 Monday. Details: Rally secretary. RHTS, 37 Manor Road, Rushden, Northants,NN10 9EX, phone 01933 350287. website. 2-4 Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum. May Day Trolleydays and (Monday only) Morris Minor Rally. Admission: £5 adults, concessions £3, family ticket (two adults and up to four concessions) £15, parking free. 11.00-17.00. Details: 01724 711391. website email. 3 Abingdon Air & Country Show, Dalton Barracks, Oxfordshire. 10.00-17.00. Air displays supported by vintage and classic vehicles. Admission: £10 (adult), £5 (concession and child 5-15), under-5s free. £8 and £4 respectively if bought in advance. Details: phone 01235 529142, email. website 3 Alton, Hants. Volunteers from the Medstead Depot Omnibus Group will operate free vintage bus services from the Mid-Hants Railway station to Chawton. Details: John Hillier, phone 01276 23200, email. 3 Alrewas, Lichfield, Catton Hall Classic Car & Transport ShowDetails: Transtar Promotions, 9 Newquay Road, Park Hall, WALSALL. WS5 3EL, phone 01922 643385 website email. 3 Gateshead. MetroCentre bus rally, 10.00-16.00. Free bus rides, classic buses on display. Accessible by bus, train and Metro from centres of Newcastle and Gateshead. Ample car parking at the shopping centre. Sponsored by Go-North East. Details: Ian Findlay, North East Bus Preservation Trust, 1 Gullane, WASHINGTON. NE37 1SE. Phone 0191 417 2539. email website. 3 Ipswich/Felixstowe. Ipswich Transport Museum 39th Ipswich-Felixstowe Historic Vehicle Run for pre-1975 vehicles. Over 500 vehicles expected. Christchurch Park, Ipswich dep 11.30, Felixstowe Promenade 13.00-16.30. Free admission to public. Details: Ipswich Transport Museum, Old Trolleybus Depot, Cobham Road, Ipswich, IP3 9JD. Phone: 01473 715666. website. 3 London-Brighton. 48th Historic Commercial Vehicle Run. Leaves Crystal Palace Park, South Terrace 07.00-09.00 (spectator access via Upper Terrace), for Madeira Drive, Brighton, arriving 10.30-13.00. Awards ceremony 16.00. Makes halfway halt at Pease Pottage Services, M23. Details: HCVS, Iden Grange, Cranbrook Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0ET (programme available from April from this address for £2.50, cheques payable to ‘HCVS Ltd’). Phone: 01580 892929. Fax: 01580 893227 email. website (Click on logo, then ‘events’). 3/4 Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport at Wythall. Operating days at The Transport Museum. Details: website. 3/4 Bradford Industrial Museum, Moorside Mills. Eccleshill. Keighley Bus Museum awayday display of Bradford City Transport buses, 10.00 - 17.00, together with horses at work and free local heritage bus service. website. 9 Henfield, West Sussex. Toy and model collectors’ fair, village hall from 10.30. Details: (stallholder bookings) Geoff Martin, 11 Macaulay Close, Larkfield, Kent, ME20 6TZ. Phone: 01732 840787. 9 South Shields. Model Bus Federation North East area model bus show, Salvation Army, Wawn Street, 9.30-16.00 £1 adults 50p children Details: Phone: 0777 392 3704, 0191 378 2128. 9/10 Crich. Tramway Museum models weekend, with Morris Minor event on Monday only. Details: Details: website 10 Basingstoke Festival of Transport & Autojumble organised by the Thornycroft Society at War Memorial Park. Expects 800 vehicles, including buses. Last year’s attracted over 10,000 visitors. Details: John Bond, phone: 01962 883246 or (trade and stands) Alan Pavier 01256 892505. 10 Newport, Isle of Wight Bus Museum running day, 10.30-17.00, with frequent bus rides 11.00-16.30. Shuttle service from Newport town bus station, vintage vehicle display on the quay. Refreshments available at adjacent Classic Boat Museum. Details: Phone 01983 533352. For visiting vehicles (A5 sae marked Running Day to Isles of Wight Bus Museum, Newport Harbour, NEWPORT. PO30 2EF 10 Slough and Windsor Running Day. Based at Slough Bus Station (near railway station). Organised by Amersham & District Motorbus Society. 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 10 Stoke. Potteries Omnibus Preservation Society Rally & Running Day at Wedgwood Visitor Centre, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent. 10.00-16.30. Free entry for vehicles. Regular shuttle bus service to/from Stoke railway station (Leek Road bus stop) and Hanley bus station. Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Rally Secretary, 10 Osborne Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7PF. email. website. 10 West Bromwich. 32nd Sandwell Historic Vehicle Show. Sandwell Valley Country Park, West Bromwich. Details: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Department of Education & Community Services, PO Box 41, Shaftesbury House, 402 High Street, West Bromwich B70 9LT. Phone: 0121 569 8276. 10 Rotherham South Yorkshire Transport Museum open day. Details: Details: website. 16 Ipswich. Ipswich Transport & Model Festival. 10.00-16.00 at Ipswich Transport Museum, Old Trolleybus Depot, Cobham Road. Details: website. 16 Theydon Bois, Essex. Running day, vintage bus display (up to 20 buses) and enthusiasts’ bazaar (around 40 stalls, 11.00-15.30) based at new village hall (5 min from Central Line station, Travelcard Zone 6). No car parking available at village hall. Admission £2. Refreshments available. Details: (large stamped address envelope, please) North London Transport Society Events, 8 The Rowans, Palmers Green, LONDON N13 5AD. website. 16/17 Manchester Museum of Transport. A celebration of Bolton's buses, part of the 40th anniversary celebrations to commemorate teh formation of SELNEC. Rides on a variety of services using museum buses. Details: website. 17 Bristol. Harbourside Rally and Running Day, with free rides around the city. Detail: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Bristol Road Transport Collection, 48 Kenilworth Drive, Willsbridge, BRISTOL. BS30 6DZ. Phone: 0794 161 5333. website. 17 Hastings. 17th annual rally organised by Hastings Trolleybus Restoration Group. At the Oval, Bohemia Road (A21 half a mile from town centre and opposite the Sports Centre). Details: (stamped addressed envelope, please) Ion Castro, 119 Braybrooke Road, HASTINGS. TN34 1TQ. Phone 01424 437468 email website. 17 Horsham. Country bus running day. Details: 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. 17 Lathalmond, Fife. Scottish Vintage Bus Museum running day. 10.00-17.00. Museum-based and visiting buses will operate extensive free vintage services around the area and half-hourly to Dunfermline Fire Station. Sales stalls. Admission: £6 (adult), £3 (senior/child). Details: Roland Williams, 4 Upper Kinneddar Gardens, Saline, Fife, KY12 9TY, Phone 07850 868850. website. 17 Leyland, Lancs Spring Transport Show. 10.00-17.00 British Commercial Vehicle Museum, King Street Details: website. 23 Morecambe Annual Stagecoach North West Rally and open day at White Lund depot, 10.00-16.00. Special bus service from/to town centre. See ad in BUSES Details: H S Postlethwaite, 8 Norkeed Road, Little Bispham, BLACKPOOL. FY5 1QE phone 0786 641 5135 23/24 Newark, Notts. AEC Society Rally, Great North Road Rally, Showground. Bomber County Road run 1400 Saturday. Stalls, autojumble. Details: Jim Read (sae), Vangastow, Winslow Gate, Fleet, HOLBEACH. PE21 8LS phone 01406 424769 (18.00-21.00) website. 23-25 Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire. 50th anniversary commemoration. Details: website 23-25 Ilkley/Bolton Abbey. Days out with Thomas hourly (09.35-15.35) scenic service operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust open-top bus (subject to availability) between Ilkley and Bolton Abbey stations in conjunction Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, also featuring Bertie and Bulgy and Embsay Station. Details: website. 23-25 Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum. 40th Anniversary Extravaganza Weekend with a Admission: £7 adults, concessions £4, family ticket (two adults and up to four concessions) £20, parking free. 11.00-17.00. Details: 01724 711391. website email. 23-25 Tywyn road run and rally to commemorate 75 years of Associated Motorways with coaches following six routes from Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Cheltenham and Caernarfon via Aberystwyth, arriving and leaving together. Ends 16.00 Monday. Details: phone Ian Lloyd-Owen 01452 531583 or 0796 6596099 or email 24 Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport. Operating day at The Transport Museum. Details: website. 24 Cheltenham display and running day to commemorate 75 years of Associated Motorways with coaches running at least hourly from the coach station and a mass departure at 16.00 Details: Kelvin Amos, 30 Blandford Close, Nailsea, BRISTOL. BS48 2QQ email 24 Dublin. Toy collectors fair, Clontarf Castle Hotel, Castle Avenue, Clotarf. 10.00-16.00. Details: phone Brian Kelly on 00 353 1 280 3008 or Terry McNally on 00 33 1 284 9199 website CANCELLED 24 Exeter Rally to mark the 90th anniversary of Devon General and the 50th of the Leyland Atlantean. 10.00-17.00 at the Racecourse, Haldon Hill (A38 Devon Expressway). Free buses to/from Exeter bus/rail stations Details: Nik Craig, Devon General Society, 13 North Furzeham Road, BRIXHAM. TQ5 8HT email 24/25 Alcester, Warwicks Ragley Hall Classic Car & Transport Show. Details: Transtar Promotions phone 01922 643385 website email. 25 Birmingham. Two Museums Day with cross-city buses linking The Transport Museum, Wythall half hourly with Aston Manor Transport Museum. Tickets available covering admission to both transport museums and travel by bus. Adults £9, children £4.50, family ticket £22 (up to two children). Parking at Witton. Details: website. 25 Quainton Road Bucks Bus & Transport Rally, Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Steam trains running. Details: Buckinghamshire Railway Centre website.
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Cobham, Surrey. Cobham Bus Museum. A display and running day with a variety of vehicles some of
which will provide rides between the museum and the miniature Bocketts Farm Visitors Centre near Leatherhead.
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31 Ipswich. Family Fun Day. 11.00-16.00 at Ipswich Transport Museum, Old Trolleybus Depot, Cobham Road. Vintage bus and fire engine rides Details: website. 31 Lewes Bus Rally and Running Day, Malling Recreation Ground, off Southdown Road. Details: sae to Brian French, 10 De Grey Close, LEWES. BN7 2JR 01273 479239 website email. |