Leicester Transport Heritage Bus Rally and Railcar Weekend 2024

[@GrahamSleath]

Next year's Bus and Train will be held at the same venue over the weekend of Sat/Sun 17th and 18th May 2025. Make a note of this in your diary which promises to be another event not to be missed.

[@craigsibley8161]

Another excellent video Mr S 👍👍👍

[@GrahamSleath]

Thanks Craig. Glad you enjoyed it. Another superb day.

[@deeubs09]

Lovely to see vintage beauties in the videos

[@michaelkeen5010]

Great video of a great event, I was there and sampled several of the vehicles in the video.

[@GrahamSleath]

Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it as it was a brilliant day.

[@MegaBreadvan]

@michaelkeen5010 Hopefully will meet up at a future event. The French school holidays were last month, so we were over in the UK too early for it. At least I got to take some photos of the electric buses in Leicester while there.

[@michaelkeen5010]

@@MegaBreadvan yes I hope so too. There was a good selection of buses at this event this year, as always.

[@MegaBreadvan]

@@michaelkeen5010 Yes looked excellent plus a those I saw last September. Would love to get another ride on JHA227L... 😊

[@MegaBreadvan]

Thanks for sharing this Graham, looked like a great event this year. Unfortunately I was in the UK last month for 2 and a bit weeks, so missed it. Through your video I at least got to see the event this year! Cheers, John.

[@GrahamSleath]

Thanks John it was another superb event and a real credit to the organisers and volunteers. Plenty of buses to see and trips. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make Sunday when the weather looked even sunnier.

[@MegaBreadvan]

@@GrahamSleath Hopefully I'll make it next year. Depends where it falls. This year I stayed on, on my own for 7 more days, staying with a friend Braunstone. I could've gone to the Delaine Event, but decided that it would be a pain to get to via train etc and wouldn't have much time. I last went there in the early 90's.

[@GrahamSleath]

@@MegaBreadvan I did the Delaine event last year but not this year as it was so cold. They have not yet released the date for Quorn next year but they are planning another event on Saturday 27th July to celebrate a 100 years of Municipal Motorbuses in Leicester so I hope I can get to that once further details have been released.

[@MegaBreadvan]

@@GrahamSleath Reminds me of the 50 years of motorbuses book that was released in 1974. I have 2 copies, as my original bought from the Rutland Street offices was so worn and damaged through reading it so much. LOL. Would be good if a publication is done for 100 years. If I came over in July I'd have to consider the train fare and loss of work (I teach English part time and Saturday is my best day). We going away for 3 weeks in August too. Will look forward to seeing a video if you do one. 😊

[@ForidaKhatunSetu]

Nice

[@robinworth7142]

I can see what I missed while I was in Blackpool, but I did have Bolton car 66 twice.

[@GrahamSleath]

Looks like you had a good time up there. I've not been for a few years now as it's harder for me to get there since I moved.

[@MegaBreadvan]

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[@SarahSANDFORD]

Another of your fantastic videos. Some of the buses reminded me of the times my mother used to take me to school outfitters in London, and then we would head to D.H.Evans to have lunch in the restaurant before heading to the material department . The next day, I would be taken to Paddington Station to join the school group before boarding the steam train heading to Malvern. That was 60 years ago. How time flies. Graham, the double-decker bus with the double rear wheels I haven't seen before. Who made it? How old is it and where was it in service?. Keep up the brilliant work, cheers Sarah from Tasmania.

[@GrahamSleath]

Hi Sarah. Thank you for your lovely comments. Glad you enjoyed the video and it brought some nice memories back for you. The double-decker is CBC 921 an AEC Renown new to Leicester City as fleet number 329 in 1939 and it is a tri-axle bus. It is now preserved at the Abbey Pumping Museum in Leicester and does occasionally attend rallies. It operated in Leicester for over 19 years before being sold for preservation in 1958 to the Vintage Passenger Vehicle Society. Spent some time also at the East Anglian Transport Museum and had a number of narrow escapes from the scrap man before returning to Leicester in 1973. The Leicester Transport Heritage Trust produced an 80th anniversary booklet which you can get from their website and has the full story. Hope this helps.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Mmmm - D.H. Evans restaurant......I too remember it well!

[@Eddiecurrent2000]

That little minibus failed its MOT 19 years ago on several things, including the brake lights being on when it's not braking. Makes me wonder what else hasn't been sorted on it.

[@mr_howahox]

What's the Bristol SC at the top left at the beginning?

[@GrahamSleath]

That is 3003 AH Eastern Counties LC556 new in 1959.

[@mr_howahox]

Thanks. My father Peter Hulin owned it with its other reg number from 1986 until 1993, as well as 608JPU.

[@TamasKiss-bv9hz]

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