Morecambe Vintage Bus Running Day

A 1934 Lytham Leyland Lion and 1953 Brighton, Hove & District Bristol KSW6G at the football stadium

The Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust held their annual Vintage Bus Running Day at Morecambe on Sunday 19th May. The event comprised of static vehicle displays, sales stalls and free rides on a wide variety of preserved buses, including several open toppers, which proved very popular under the wall to wall sunshine that greeted visiting enthusiasts. The RVPT operated free bus services from Carnforth railway station, Happy Mount Park and Heysham Village to the Morecambe Football Club and Promenade every 10 to 15 minutes throughout the event. There was also a Bare Circular that operated a frequent service from outside the Winter Gardens on the Promenade, stopping at Happy Mount Park and Bare.

Stagecoach ADL Enviro400 MMC 11146 on service 6A with a 1950 Morecambe & Heysham AEC Regent III

1962 Ribble Leyland PD3/5 1775 leaving the Mazuma stadium on the free bus service to Carnforth

1972 Ribble open top Bristol VR 1995 returning to the football stadium

1956 Ribble Leyland PD2/12 1467 loading up for the Bare Circular at the football stadium

1948 Lytham St Annes Leyland PD2/1 10 operating a free bus service

Economic Coaches of Whitburn 1948 Albion Valiant CX39N

1959 Crosville Bristol Lodekka LD6B DLB978 operating on the free bus service

1950 Todmorden Corporation Leyland PD2/1 18 with a Leyland lowbridge body

Barrow Transport Group partial open top Volvo B10M 928 with Ribble 1467 passing

1954 London Transport AEC Regent III RT4548

1958 Fishwick Leyland PD2/40 with a Weymann lowbridge body

1967 Blackpool PD3 512 and former Stagecoach open top Dennis Trident 17012

Morecambe 1951 Weymann bodied 73 and 1950 Park Royal bodied 72, both AEC Regent IIIs

1987 Blackpool open top Leyland Olympian 857

1970 Fylde Borough Transport Leyland Atlantean 77 with Nottingham style bodywork