Public transport in Greater Manchester
8702 photos
A1A, Birkenhead
2 photos
A1 Service
4 photos
AA
4 photos
APH, Sharston
3 photos
Abbott, Blackpool
12 photos
Happy memories of the seaside coaches with "lucky sevens" in the registration numbers.
Ace, Aintree
4 photos
Amberley, Pudsey
4 photos
Amberline
4 photos
Andrew, Sheffield
24 photos
Andrew, Tideswell
4 photos
Arriva (in general)
302 photos
Arriva Cymru
15 photos
... or "Wales" of course...
Arriva Liverpool (former Blue Bus operation)
11 photos
Arriva London
21 photos
Arriva Manchester
50 photos
Arriva Merseyside
46 photos
Arriva Northumbria
10 photos
Arriva North West
89 photos
Arriva Yorkshire
20 photos
Arrowline/Ambassador (Star Line)
12 photos
Ashall
18 photos
Atherton Bus Company
6 photos
Atlantic, Bolton
12 photos
Barnsley and District
6 photos
Barton
5 photos
Bee Line and C-Line
244 photos
Belle Vue
47 photos
Big Bus
5 photos
Blackburn Transport
54 photos
Blackpool Transport
114 photos
Buses and trams from that archetypal seaside resort
Black Prince
45 photos
Bleasedale, Liverpool
4 photos
Bluebird
139 photos
Blue Bus
118 photos
Bolton Coachways
4 photos
Booth (Ericsway/Lyntown)
16 photos
Borders Buses
10 photos
Bowers/High Peak
53 photos
Brigit's Afternoon Tea
3 photos
British Airways
4 photos
Bullock
225 photos
Including the coach part taken over from Finglands
Burnley and Pendle (Blazefield/Transdev)
96 photos
Burnley and Pendle (pre Blazefield/Transdev)
44 photos
Including the Stagecoach years... as and when I get round to posting examples of those...
Busman, Knutsford
2 photos
Busways (pre-Stagecoach)
20 photos
Busways (Stagecoach)
13 photos
Bu-Val
17 photos
C & M, Aintree
16 photos
C T Plus
6 photos
Camm, Nottingham
4 photos
Cartmell (Border), Burnley
5 photos
Catch 22/Coastliner, Blackpool
27 photos
Cavern City Tours, Liverpool
3 photos
Chase, Chasetown
6 photos
Checkmate, Mossley
15 photos
... in its different incarnations...
Cherry/Aintree Coaches/Aintree Coachline
11 photos
Chester
45 photos
Chesters
10 photos
Chesterfield
29 photos
includes Whites of Calver after takeover by Chesterfield
Citibus
164 photos
Citybus (Hong Kong)
76 photos
Citybus (Northern Ireland)
5 photos
Classic, Annfield Plain
5 photos
Coachmasters
8 photos
Coastal Coaches, Warton
4 photos
Coral Coaches, Ashton
6 photos
Courtesy/Yelloway
7 photos
Includes the revival of the Yelloway brand.
Cowie (Grey Green)
3 photos
Crosville
25 photos
Crosville Wales
20 photos
Cumberland
33 photos
Cumbria Classic Coaches
8 photos
Cumfybus, Southport
6 photos
D & G Bus
7 photos
Dale (Little Gem/Club Class), Middleton
3 photos
Delaine, Bourne
19 photos
Dennis's
69 photos
Derby
17 photos
Devaway
7 photos
Diamond Bus North West
174 photos
The former South Lancs Travel operation after takeover by Rotala
Discovery Bay
8 photos
Dootson, Leigh
5 photos
Dublin Bus
37 photos
East Coast Buses
7 photos
Eastern Scottish
17 photos
East Midland
46 photos
East Yorkshire
55 photos
Edinburgh Bus Tours
5 photos
Elite, Stockport
3 photos
Ensignbus
5 photos
Evag Cannon
6 photos
Fareway
31 photos
Including after takeover by MTL
Fife Scottish
11 photos
Finch, Higher Ince
14 photos
Finglands
177 photos
Including those Finglands vehicles that First had on loan for a month after takeover of Finglands' operations prior to their own vehicles taking over fully, but not the Finglands coach operations of...
First (in general)
1666 photos
First Glasgow
21 photos
First Hampshire and Dorset
6 photos
First Manchester
1369 photos
From the takeover of G M Buses North, with a bit of overlap here and there, as they retained the same O-licence for some years, calling themselves First Greater Manchester at the time. Also includes...
First Scotland East
6 photos
First South Yorkshire
24 photos
First Western National
10 photos
First West Yorkshire
104 photos
First York
6 photos
Fishwick
16 photos
Forrest (Blue Triangle/Liverpool Motor...
10 photos
Fylde
34 photos
G B Coaches
3 photos
G M Buses
592 photos
G M Buses North
103 photos
From the enforced split of G M Buses by the Tory government of the day to the takeover by Stagecoach (with a bit of overlap here and there).
Not much at the moment, but, as you can imagine, the...
G M Buses South
109 photos
From the enforced split of G M Buses by the Tory government of the day to the takeover by Stagecoach (with a bit of overlap here and there)
Garnett (ABC Travel), Ainsdale
3 photos
Gateshead and District
5 photos
Glenvale (pre-Stagecoach)
11 photos
Glenvale (Stagecoach) including reconstituted...
63 photos
Includes the renaming of Glenvale to Ribble Motor Services wef 05/07/2021.
Go Ahead Group (in general)
376 photos
Go Goodwins/Little Gem
70 photos
Golden Tours
4 photos
Go North East
40 photos
Go North West
295 photos
Greater Manchester Transport
128 photos
Green Bus, Great Wyrley
8 photos
Green Triangle (South Lancs Travel)
17 photos
The operation that eventually became the second incarnation of South Lancs Travel: that is the version in Greater Manchester, rather than the original St Helens-based concern.
Also includes a little...
Griffiths, Hyde
2 photos
Guide Friday
9 photos
Halifax Joint Committee
10 photos
Halton
17 photos
Happy Al's
5 photos
Harrogate and District
16 photos
Harrogate Coach Travel (Connexions)
10 photos
Hatton, St Helens
4 photos
Hayton
11 photos
Photos of pre-Selwyn owned Hayton's
Hearson (Knotty), Chesterton
3 photos
Heaton
10 photos
Hong Kong Tramways
12 photos
Horarios do Funchal
13 photos
Howards Travel/Springfield
19 photos
Hull
7 photos
Hulley, Baslow
53 photos
Hulme Hall
17 photos
Hunter (Village), Garston
14 photos
Hyndburn
47 photos
Irwell Valley
10 photos
J P Travel
110 photos
K-Line, Huddersfield
3 photos
Keighley and District
30 photos
Kinch, Barrow-upon-Soar
6 photos
King, Dukinfield
5 photos
Kowloon Motor Bus
45 photos
Lancashire United
98 photos
Lancaster
28 photos
Including the Lonsdale Coaches business
Leicester
17 photos
Leon, Finningley
3 photos
Lincolnshire Road Car
14 photos
Liverbus
19 photos
Liverline
26 photos
Liverpool Duck Tours/Yellow Duckmarine
3 photos
Quack quack!
London Central
16 photos
London Coaches
3 photos
London General
14 photos
Long Win Bus
7 photos
Lothian
76 photos
Lothian Country
8 photos
Lowland
9 photos
M Travel
11 photos
M P Travel
10 photos
MTL (in general)
184 photos
Post-dereg Merseybus and MTL off-shoots, prior to the sell-off to Arriva
MTL Manchester
37 photos
MTL North/Merseybus
126 photos
Manchester Airport
4 photos
Manchester Bus Tours/Easi Rider/Sightseeing...
12 photos
Manchester Community Transport
57 photos
Mario, Ribchester
4 photos
The Mayne Man
322 photos
Maytree
8 photos
McCarthy (Pine Coaches), Stalybridge
8 photos
McGill's
9 photos
Merseyline
7 photos
Metroline
18 photos
Metroline Manchester
61 photos
Metrolink
91 photos
Trams and infrastructure
Midland Bluebird
3 photos
Midland Classic
7 photos
Midland Fox
22 photos
Midland Red North
27 photos
Midway/Mancunian Bus Co
58 photos
Midwest, Salford
4 photos
Moving People
7 photos
Mybus
31 photos
New World First Bus
46 photos
Nexus Move
8 photos
Northern Blue, Burnley
10 photos
Northern Bus, Anston
41 photos
The well-known nineties South Yorkshire deregulation operator, famous mainly for their large fleet of Bristol RE.
Northern General
8 photos
Northumbria
7 photos
North Western
101 photos
Covering the 1980s incarnation of the famous North Western Road Car Co
Nottingham
32 photos
Notts and Derby
10 photos
Nova-Scotia
15 photos
O K Travel
15 photos
Ogden, St Helens
7 photos
Orion, Gorton
3 photos
Oxford Bus Company
10 photos
PMT
135 photos
Including Crosville, Red Rider and Pennine branding
Park, Hamilton
7 photos
Pennine Blue
194 photos
Not always blue, but always interesting...
Pilkington
23 photos
Powney (City Fleet), Aintree
4 photos
Preston
46 photos
Pride of the Road
6 photos
Quickstep
5 photos
Redline, Penwortham
5 photos
Red Rose, Blackburn
3 photos
Reilly (Maghull Coaches)
15 photos
Reliance, Ashton-under-Lyne
5 photos
Retford and District
2 photos
Deregulation-era subsidiary of Chesterfield Transport
Rhodes, Yeadon
9 photos
Ribble
277 photos
See Glenvale (Stagecoach) for the reconstituted Ribble, wef 05/07/2021.
Rodoeste
6 photos
Rose Hill, Marple
7 photos
Rossendale
184 photos
Rotala (in general)
166 photos
Royds (M R Travel), Rochdale
3 photos
S & S Travel, Oldham
3 photos
SUT (including Sheaf Line after takeover by SYT)
14 photos
Seddon and Milson (Peakbus)
3 photos
Selkent
5 photos
Selwyn
49 photos
Sheaf Line (pre takeover by SYT)
6 photos
Shearings
69 photos
Sheffield and District
2 photos
Fairly short-lived Caldaire Group operation in the late 1980s.
Sheffield Omnibus
26 photos
Simpson (Pennine)
20 photos
Smith (Avon), Prenton
6 photos
Smith, Marple
15 photos
Smith (Your Bus)
7 photos
South Lancs Transport, St Helens
4 photos
South Manchester
19 photos
South Riding
5 photos
South Yorkshire PTE
5 photos
South Yorkshire Road Transport
6 photos
South Yorkshire Transport/Mainline
70 photos
Speedwell
25 photos
Stagecoach (in general)
2064 photos
Stagecoach Devon
28 photos
Stagecoach Magic Bus
223 photos
Stagecoach Manchester
1638 photos
From the takeover of G M Buses South (which of course it still is, operator's-licence-wise) - with a little overlap here and there - to the present day. Also includes Stagecoach Wigan, but not the...
Stagecoach Western Buses
12 photos
Stevensons
100 photos
Stones, Glazebury
20 photos
Stott, Marsden/Milnsbridge
3 photos
Stott, Oldham
139 photos
Stuart, Hyde/Dukinfield
131 photos
Sunderland and District
4 photos
Swan, Chadderton
20 photos
TfGM Bee Network
402 photos
Well, bite the bullet - it has to be done, I suppose.
Examples of the Burnham Custard Experience, from pre-launch repaints, up to and beyond the start of the whole sorry saga...
T M Travel
26 photos
Tame Valley
38 photos
Taylor, Morley
12 photos
Team Pennine
7 photos
Thames Transit
3 photos
Timeline
58 photos
Transdev (in general)
172 photos
Travel Master, Carrington
12 photos
Trent
74 photos
Includes Barton after takeover, plus Notts & Derby
Tyrer
39 photos
U K Coachways/Vision Bus
20 photos
U K North
81 photos
Son of Mybus, older brother of the reincarnated G M Buses (the latter also included here)
Ulsterbus
23 photos
United
12 photos
Universal
15 photos
Vale
39 photos
Venture (Shaws Coaches)
3 photos
A Go Ahead Group low-cost operation during the 1990s, run on the licence of one famous former independent and carrying the name of another.
Viking, Heywood
5 photos
Wall, Fallowfield/Sharston
63 photos
Wallace Arnold
3 photos
Warrington Transport
66 photos
Western Scottish
13 photos
West Midlands Travel
46 photos
West Riding
9 photos
Whippet
4 photos
White, Calver
4 photos
See Chesterfield for Whites of Calver after takeover.
Whitehead (Pioneer/Sports Tours)
19 photos
Whyatt (Glossopdale)
25 photos
Wigan Bus Company
6 photos
Wild (Central Coaches)
21 photos
Williams, Mossley
5 photos
Yelloway
41 photos
Unfortunately I was around for rock bottom in the deregulation years, but let's not be down-hearted. Also includes some vehicles from the associated Yelloway Trathens fleet. See under Courtesy for...
Yorkshire Coastliner
20 photos
Yorkshire Rider
170 photos
Yorkshire Terrier
13 photos
Yorkshire Tiger
7 photos
Yorkshire Traction
41 photos
Yorkshire Woollen
7 photos
AVA
24 photos
Bodywork built locally in Kenya by AVA on kits supplied by Duple MetSec
Alexander
1800 photos
Includes bodywork by Alexander Belfast and also vehicles badged or denoted as Transbus prior to the collapse of that company
Alexander Dennis (non-Enviro bodies)
50 photos
Auwarter (Neoplan)
39 photos
Berkhof
14 photos
Beulas
2 photos
Brush
3 photos
Burlingham
16 photos
Caetano
53 photos
Camo
15 photos
Carlyle
51 photos
Crossley
26 photos
Bodywork, chassis and a little bit of related history
Dormobile
24 photos
Duple
350 photos
Duple Metsec
49 photos
Including the ex Kenyan examples from Stagecoach Manchester that were built locally in Kenya by AVA using DuMsc frames.
ECW
803 photos
East Lancs
888 photos
Also includes bodywork from associate company Neepsend
English Electric
14 photos
Harrington
9 photos
Higer
3 photos
Ikarus
35 photos
Irizar
15 photos
Jonckheere
22 photos
Leyland (bodywork)
176 photos
MCV
122 photos
Made to Measure
5 photos
Marshall
149 photos
Massey
20 photos
Mellor
27 photos
Metro-Cammell Weymann
654 photos
Bodywork by Metro-Cammell, by Weymann and by MCW combined!
Northern Counties
1988 photos
Optare Delta
45 photos
Optare Excel
49 photos
Optare - general bodywork
32 photos
Optare Metrocity
8 photos
Optare MetroRider
26 photos
Optare Prisma
21 photos
Optare/Switch Mobility Solo
259 photos
Optare Spectra
24 photos
Optare Tempo
16 photos
Optare Vecta
14 photos
Optare Versa
111 photos
PMT (bodywork)
26 photos
Park Royal
597 photos
Phoenix
4 photos
Plaxton
1042 photos
Including bodywork badged or denoted as Transbus prior to the collapse of that company.
Reeve Burgess
47 photos
Roe
263 photos
Robin Hood
25 photos
SC Coachbuilders
7 photos
UTIC
4 photos
UVG
12 photos
UVM
3 photos
Van Hool
42 photos
We'll include Van Hool McArdle as well.
Wadham Stringer
27 photos
Willowbrook
106 photos
Windover
4 photos
Wright (in general)
1526 photos
Wright ftr
2 photos
Wright GB Kite
3 photos
Wright New Routemaster
29 photos
... the Borismaster in other words...
Wright StreetDeck
137 photos
Wright StreetLite
81 photos
They may not be right good, but they're everywhere...
Yeates
4 photos
AEC Regal
7 photos
AEC Regent
56 photos
including a sneaky Crossley-badged example...
AEC Reliance
51 photos
AEC Renown
3 photos
AEC Routemaster
136 photos
AEC Swift
23 photos
Albion (in general)
8 photos
Alexander Dennis Enviro200
339 photos
Alexander Dennis Enviro300
78 photos
Includes earlier models produced by Transbus
Alexander Dennis Enviro400
891 photos
Alexander Dennis Enviro500
56 photos
Includes earlier models produced by Transbus
Atkinson (in general)
3 photos
BMMO built
2 photos
Bedford (in general)
74 photos
Bedford VAL
4 photos
Bedford VAS
6 photos
Bedford YLQ
6 photos
Bedford YMT
23 photos
Bedford YMQ
3 photos
Bedford YNT
7 photos
Bedford YRT
5 photos
Bombardier/GAC
6 photos
Bombardier M5000
52 photos
Bova
8 photos
Bristol K
4 photos
Bristol L
5 photos
Bristol LH
25 photos
Bristol Lodekka
18 photos
Bristol MW
2 photos
Bristol RE
226 photos
Bristol VR
257 photos
BYD
71 photos
DAF/VDL (in general)
282 photos
DAF/VDL DB250
111 photos
DAF MB200
9 photos
DAF/VDL SB120
18 photos
DAF SB220
94 photos
DAF SB3000
6 photos
DUKW
3 photos
Daimler C-series
27 photos
Daimler/Leyland Fleetline
702 photos
Dennis Arrow
36 photos
Dennis Dart
443 photos
Features both step entrance and low floor examples, the long and the short; also includes those vehicles badged as Transbus or Alexander Dennis.
Dennis Dominator
183 photos
Dennis Domino
44 photos
Did it knock the spots off the opposition or just leave you knocking...?
Dennis Dorchester
8 photos
Dennis Dragon/Condor
31 photos
Dennis Falcon
41 photos
Dennis Javelin
59 photos
Dennis Lance
40 photos
The big brother of the Dart and the single deck version of the Arrow (which was going to be called Lance as well originally, of course)
Dennis Lancet
9 photos
Mainly the newer era model from the 1980s, but also room for the much more vintage model of the same name from years gone by.
Dennis Trident
397 photos
Also includes those vehicles badged or denoted as Transbus or Alexander Dennis
Dodge/Renault minis
90 photos
Duple 425
5 photos
Enterprise/Plaxton Primo
12 photos
Firema T68
18 photos
Foden
8 photos
Ford (in general)
48 photos
Ford R series
36 photos
Ford Transit
11 photos
Freight Rover
35 photos
Guy Arab
23 photos
Iveco minis
62 photos
Iveco/Vehixel school buses
12 photos
Kassbohrer (Setra)
12 photos
Leyland Atlantean
1441 photos
Leyland B21
2 photos
Leyland Cub
11 photos
Leyland-DAB
16 photos
Leyland Leopard
574 photos
Leyland Lion LD
8 photos
Leyland Lion LT
5 photos
Leyland Lynx
102 photos
Leyland National
525 photos
Leyland National Greenway
22 photos
Leyland Olympian
928 photos
Leyland Panther/Panther Cub
37 photos
Leyland Royal Tiger (B50)
6 photos
Leyland Swift
15 photos
Leyland Tiger Cub
14 photos
Leyland Tiger TR
309 photos
Leyland Tiger TS and PS
23 photos
Leyland Titan TD and PD
200 photos
Leyland Titan TN
56 photos
MAN (in general)
181 photos
MAN 11.190
15 photos
MAN 12.240
6 photos
MAN 14.220
9 photos
MAN 14.240
4 photos
MAN 18.220
103 photos
MAN 18.240
9 photos
MAN 18.270
6 photos
MCW Metrobus
405 photos
MCW Metroliner
12 photos
MCW Metrorider
47 photos
Marshall Minibus
6 photos
Ill-fated low-floor project by Marshall's.
Mercedes Benz (in general)
360 photos
Mercedes Benz O303
4 photos
Mercedes Benz O405
31 photos
Mercedes Benz Citaro
99 photos
Mercedes Benz minis
216 photos
Mercedes Benz Tourismo
3 photos
Scania (in general)
527 photos
Scania/MCW (Metro-Scania and Metropolitan)
17 photos
Scania BR112/N112
31 photos
Scania CN94
4 photos
Scania K112
6 photos
Scania K113
6 photos
Scania K230 (including CK230)
15 photos
Scania K270
4 photos
Scania K360
7 photos
Scania K410
11 photos
Scania K92
6 photos
Scania K93
10 photos
Scania L113
39 photos
Scania L94
52 photos
Scania N113
168 photos
Scania N230
77 photos
Scania N250
5 photos
Scania N270
7 photos
Scania N280
6 photos
Scania N94
58 photos
All variants of Scania's N94 type - double and single deck
Seddon
44 photos
Talbot Pullman
9 photos
Tecnobus
4 photos
VDL SB180
9 photos
VDL SB200
35 photos
Volkswagen
3 photos
Volvo (in general)
2391 photos
Volvo 7900
6 photos
Volvo Ailsa
71 photos
Volvo B58
20 photos
Volvo B5LH
198 photos
Volvo B5TL
40 photos
Volvo B6
50 photos
Volvo B6BLE
11 photos
Volvo B6LE
28 photos
Volvo B7L/B7LA
15 photos
Volvo B7R
5 photos
Volvo B7RLE
252 photos
Volvo B7TL
226 photos