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Wednesday 23rd July 2014

Lancaster Leisure, Woolacombe Bay
XJJ653V, JWV269W were operating the Woolacombe Bay shuttle services.
XJJ, the former 'Ribena', was painted yellow prior to operating at this years Glastonbury Festival. It has since gained a small amount of Woolacombe Bay branding.
UFX856S which has been operating here since the start of 2013 was not seen, open top Atlantean GRS114E was however in use.

Tuesday 22nd July 2014

Rail River Link
UWV614S
This was the only VR in use, seen on the morning Torquay trip, with WTU467W not seen. UWV614S was duplicated from Torquay to Totnes by K573RRH, with N589BRH on the other duty working alternate trips between Paignton and Totnes.
Work on returning VDV138S to use is reported to have not begun, and rooved UWV604S is still owned but stored.

Sunday 20th July 2014

Alton Rally
NUD105L, *JJT437N, PUF586R, *RVB977S, *TPN103S, *UDL669S, *UWV623S, VDV134S, CJH141V, *FDL681V, FDL682V, EWS748W all attended, those with a star before the registration operated on free services. A big increase on the number of VRs present one year earlier at this event.
Details below.


CJH141V, Static exhibit.


FDL682V, Static exhibit.


FDL681V.


FDL681V operated Route 107 09.25 Basingstoke to Alton and the 17.15 return, feeder service for the event, seen at Basingstoke after the latter working.


JJT437N at Medstead railway station.
Operated;
23 12.38 to Alton station and return
15 12.55 to Medstead station and return


JJT437N.


PUF586R, Static exhibit.


RVB977S.
Operated;
T1 circular tours at 14.15, 14.45, 15.15


TPN103S at Alton sports centre.
Operated;
204 12.08 town service
57 13.00 to Odiham and return




UDL669S.
Operated;
13 14.10 to Whitehill and return


UWV623S of Morton's.
Operated;
T1 circular tour at 14.15


VDV134S, Static exhibit.

Saturday 19th July 2014

Alton Beer & Buses event
NUD105L, PUF586R, UDL669S operated on free route 62 service, EWS748W was present as a standby vehicle. This was all part of the usual running day which takes place on the day before Alton Rally.
Workings;

NUD105L
62 - 1125 Alton to Cheriton
62 - 1210 Cheriton to Alton
62 - 1325 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1346 Herriard to Cheriton
62 - 1450 Cheriton to Alton
62 - 1625 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1646 Herriard to Cheriton
62 - 1750 Cheriton to Alton

PUF586R
62 - 1225 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1246 Herriard to Cheriton
62 - 1350 Cheriton to Alton
62 - 1525 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1546 Herriard to Cheriton
62 - 1650 Cheriton to Alton
62 - 1825 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1846 Herriard to Alton

UDL669S
89 - 1000 Basingstoke to Selborne
89 - 1130 Selborne to Alton
62 - 1205 Alton to Cheriton
62 - 1250 Cheriton to Alton
62 - 1425 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1446 Herriard to Cheriton
62 - 1550 Cheriton to Alton
62 - 1725 Alton to Herriard
62 - 1746 Herriard to Cheriton
62 - 1850 Cheriton to Herriard
NIS?
89 - 1940 Alton to Basingstoke



NUD105L leaving Alton.


PUF586R departing Alton.




UDL669S reversing at Herriard.


Event standby bus, EWS748W, at Alton railway station car park.

Tuesday 8th July 2014

Crosville Motor Services, Weston
VDL613S
100 - 09.35 Weston to Sand Bay and return in place of an Olympian that was late from depot, then;
152 - from 11.05 tour onwards.

July 2014

Classic Bus North West, operating more recently under the Oakwood Travel name, have sold WTG360T for preservation after a long period out of use after returning from Weston Super Mare. It still carries the yellow livery of the Bournemouth to Boscombe venture from 2008.

First Devon & Cornwall
AFJ706T - the former 38706, now owned by the Cornwall Preservation Group, is going on loan to its former owner as a back up vehicle for the current route 300 service which runs daily using one bus between Lands End and St Ives via St Just (as per the old 201 which ran using VRs in 2007). The route itself however is normally in the hands of a Bristol Lodekka however this only operates a certain number of days a week. The route is advertised as a heritage vehicle and *not* open top, though the back up bus to the Lodekka recently has been an open top Volvo Citybus.
AFJ has been repainted in the same green livery it finished its days with First operating in.

June 2014

Glastonbury Music Festival
[to add when information is available] of Chepstow Classic Buses were present during the event.
VDV142S was present in a new blue Croyde Surf Academy livery, similar to AFJ760T which is a static exhibit in Croyde. VDV is spending some time at Croyde this summer taking people from the surf academy to the beach.
Other buses operating at Glastonbury included, but are not limited to, WTG359T (Chepstow dark blue), BJG671V (deep yellow), XJJ653V (plain yellow), XJJ659V (white and orange), CJJ677W (lime).
It was not previously reported but WTG359T was repainted before the *2013 Glastonbury event, previously the detachable roof was a lighter blue than the rest of the body but the entire vehicle was repainted at that time.
Bath Bus Company also provided preserved AHW201V.

Sunday 8th June 2014

Transport Festival at Barry
MOD571P, WTG348T, WTH961T were present, MOD operated two trips in service at 14.00 and 16.00, stored WTG was in the depot and WTH was on display.

April 2014

Penzance running day
This occurred during April (20/04/14), no details were ever received, if anyone can confirm which VRs were there and operated in service please email ndl642m@yahoo.co.uk so we add it to the list of known workings on this website. Thank you.