GUY ARAB III CBR 539 Lets hop aboard for a ride around Beamish Living Museum County Durham

Beamish Open Air Museum is a great place to visit even on a cold and wintery January weekend 2025, but this is season that Beamish can carry out maintenance before peak season and visitors arrive. The trams where not operating due to track repairs in the 1900's town so extra buses where running an alternative service route through the new 1950's town, all around the huge site to all the various attractions and provided an excellent service and opportunity to ride many different vintage vehicles.
CBR 539 a Roe bodied Guy Arab III owned and preserved by the North East Bus Preservation Trust (NEBPT), was on loan to Beamish to assist with providing bus travel around the site as required.
CBR 539 was purchased new to Sunderland Corporation in 1955 and was fleeted as 139 and was a Guy Arab III chassis fitted with a Roe H33/25R bodywork. This was a batch of 12 buses that were new and bought to be used on tram replacement service in the Grangetown area.
How bizarre its still being used for tram replacement service 70 years later !
It was donated to NEBPT in 2003 by the 139 group.
We hop aboard for a ride on CBR 539 and hope you enjoy the ride.

[@JohnUnderwood-yz2xu]

Nice shots of their new town....

[@The-Silent-Rider]

Beamish is well worth a visit, I know the ticket price is around £27 but valid for twelve months and you cannot see it all in one day. The new 1950's town with cinema and electrical and record store is a great edition as well as the new houses and even a chip shop and cafe and hair dressers its become very popular part of the attraction. Many thanks for you kind words......

[@ViatronTumpington]

Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield, the classic vintage sound of a Guy Arab Mk.lll with ROE pullman bodywork complete with a deep curved D-shaped staircase window on the rear offside on the lower deck via this type of ROE pullman bodywork also featured on three other ones mounted on the A.E.C. REGENT Mk.lll forward control bus chassis including S.T.D. No.166 which were originally fitted with an A.E.C. 4-speed sliding mesh gearbox with constant mesh third gear when new in 1952 the later re-equipt with the new A.E.C. 4-speed synchromesh gearbox while the Doncaster Corporation No.122 is still fitted with the original A.E.C. 4-speed sliding mesh gearbox with constant mesh third gear via both also fitted with A.E.C. A218 9.6 litre 6-cylinder direct-injection diesel engines. But there is one more ROE Pullman ll bodied A.E.C. Regent Mk.lll type for Leeds Corporation via this one has the deeper version of the later curved D-shaped none-pointed staircase window on the rear offside of the lower deck, plus it's was fitted with an A.E.C./Wilson 4-speed pre-selector gearbox with fluid flywheel & not yet fully restored to it's former glory in the early light blue livery. Thank you for your co-operation on this very special vintage ROE Pullman bodied double deck buses from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield.

[@The-Silent-Rider]

@@ViatronTumpington Many thanks for your lovely comment and knowledge. I edited this video differently to the normal adding a few different scenes and also being courteous to other passengers on board.