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We have organised
vintage bus running days in Kingsbridge every year since 2008 so
this will be our ninth event in the South Hams.
The Running Day centred on Kingsbridge Bus Station will be on
Saturday 17th September. This gives the visiting public the
opportunity to ride on a range of vehicles to coast and country
destinations around Kingsbridge. On Sunday 18th it is intended that
a selection of vehicles, crews and volunteers will make a leisurely
tour from Kingsbridge to Dartmouth and Buckfastleigh with excursions
onto Dartmoor before they travel homeward.
The routes we plan to use are those formerly operated by the Great
Western Railway Road Motors, the Western National Omnibus Company
and other local operators such as Tally Ho Coaches. Services to East
Portlemouth, South Pool, Goveton, Slapton, Salcombe, Hope Cove,
Thurlestone, Bantham, Loddiswell, California Cross and East
Allington are being scheduled, some with additional journeys and/or
with changed timing due to recent timetable changes on Stagecoach
services. The circular services will include Coleridge Community Bus
route 1 from Kingsbridge to Slapton, East Allington, Goveton and
Ledstone and ‘school’ service TNS004 through the Avon Valley coupled
with pre-war rail replacement route 177 from South Brent. In
addition there will be several short workings including a town
service with round trip times of less than 30 minutes to enable
sampling a greater number of vehicles over the course of the day. A
number of routes will also have duplicates so that passengers can
change vehicles at outer termini. There will also be coach
excursions to Blackpool Sands.
Feeder services will run to and from Totnes Railway station. Early
pick-ups will be at:
From Totnes
(Coronation Road): 08:40, 09:20, 09:40
From Totnes (Railway
Station): 08:45, 09:25, 09:45
Latest departures from
Kingsbridge (and arrival times at Totnes) will be 1700 (1735), 1715
(1750) and 1730 (1805).
Most vehicles in use will be limited to those with a width not
exceeding 7’6” (apart from mirrors). This is necessary because of
the width of many of the roads in the area over which we are
planning to operate. Full width vehicles will be able to be used on
the routes to Slapton, Salcombe, Bigbury, Modbury and Totnes. Owners
of other visiting vehicles are welcome to come to Kingsbridge and we
expect to be able to organise additional parking by arrangement –
please contact the organisers below if you wish to avail yourself of
this.
Vehicles expected to operate in
service
(subject to availability on the day) include:
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