I don't recall seeing any cravens units on my visits to Birmingham, but on 6 February 1986 this rather tatty looking example, E54472 leading was working an additional service to Wolverhampton.

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It is to be hoped that the new government's 'Better Buses' bill will put an end to this nonsense. A beat-up old Travel Express Dennis Dart poaches passengers from the bona fide operator, National Express West Midlands, as its state-of-the-art Alexander Dennis Enviro 400MMC comes up behind,

Dating from the year 2000, X292 ABU was originally used as a car park shuttle bus at Gatwick Airport. It has since been owned by three other operators, Quantock Motor Services of Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, Bodman's Coaches of Worton, Wiltshire, and Travel Express in Wolverhampton. It has now been withdrawn from service.

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Tags:   Travel Express X292 ABU Dennis Dart Alexander ALX200 Wolverhampton

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50042 Triumph approaches Stoke Canon with the 10:24 Penzance - Liverpool Lime Street on 16th March 1985.

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Tags:   50042 Class 50 Stoke Canon Devon 1M83 English Electric

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Rebuilt Bulleid Pacific 34087 145 SQUADRON heads away from Farnborough with the 06:49 Salisbury - Waterloo on 17th September 1966.

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Brush Type 4s 47343 and 47193 with Ironbridge MGR coal trains, loaded and empty respectively on 26th March 1985. At this time the daily procession of Ironbridge MGR trains routed via the Oxley Chord originated from Littleton, Trentham and Silverdale collieries in Staffordshire. Nowadays the only trains that regularly use this line are the Chirk Kronospan to Carlisle logs empties and test trains operated by Locomotive Services Ltd. Photography is impossible because the line is completely concealed by mature trees.

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Tags:   47193 D1843 47343 D1824 Class 47 Oxley Chord Coal MGR Wolverhampton

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