Public Transport Of The Plymouth Area
Tuesday, 29 January 2008

LFJ 844W replaces OTA 290G

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Torpoint's last Bristol VR LFJ 844W/1200/38844 has now replaced OTA 290G/1056 as the main show bus for the Western National Preservation...

Do we need a big yellow bus?

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For some time now First have run a scheme trying to get big yellow school buses like seen in America onto the roads of Britain in a campaign...

How hard can it be?

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Stagecoach has been asking the nation recently “How do you use a bus?” They have been surveying the nation about if they know how they shoul...

How hard can it be?

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Stagecoach has been asking the nation recently “How do you use a bus?” They have been surveying the nation about if they know how they shoul...

Getting set for Plymouth Hoe 2009

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The 2009 Plymouth Hoe bus rally is set to be one of the biggest and best ones there has ever been in the Southwest. The rally is already unu...
Friday, 25 January 2008

My photos short listed?

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I returned from school today where there was an e-mail for me saying: Hi Laurence Mayhew ,I am writing to let you know that two of your phot...
Friday, 18 January 2008

Bus driver saves life

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News came to me on a morning earlier this week that a bus driver, from Torpoint had saved someone’s life. Bus driver Carl based at the depot...

"No sorry I'm not going any further."

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On Tuesday of last week a Dennis Trident had to be taken out of service because of damaged caused by the severe gales on last week. The bus ...
Tuesday, 8 January 2008

More news on the Olympians

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More news comes to me about the Leyland Olympians that were due to come to Torpoint. One of them has been transferred to Camborne depot but ...

Partial repaint scheme

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Just to start I apologise for the post the happened that was Luke Farley as he still has the details of my account from when he was posting ...
Monday, 7 January 2008

Laurence is rubbish

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Sunday, 30 December 2007

MPD seen on 34

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Dennis Dart MPD 205 saw a rare running on the 34 on Saturday. The MPDs are most often used on the 45. And while we are on teh subject on the...
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Northern back on service

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Northern Belle returned to service last week following this years refit. She was moored from Voyager for a few days to let the wood swell up...
Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Attack at Tavistock

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On Friday 21st a 49 year old cleaner at Tavistock bus depot was attacked by robbers. The incident happened at 23:30 when the robbers came in...
Friday, 21 December 2007

C417 HJN off on her travels again

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C417 HJN was off on her travels again on Thursday again. She was spotted opperating the Park and ride duties a couple of weeks back and agai...
Sunday, 16 December 2007

On the buses

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Well what was just an innocent 20 minutes shopping with Mum in the village to Millbrook turned out to be 7 hours onboard Derrick Cuff’s bus....

The Paxman Valenta farewell

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So here we are. 31 years on from when the first two Class 43s 43002 and 43003 first set off as there number of 253001. The train was develop...
Monday, 26 November 2007

First sailing for Bretagne

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Sunday 26th saw the first reported sailing of the Bretagne the old flagship ferry of Brittany Ferries. The boat has now replaced Pont Avon ...
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VDV 142S

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Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been very busy with other things at the moment. The 17th November 2007 saw two boys life lo...
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Sunday, 11 November 2007

First takeover of Plymouth Citybus Routes

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Sorry I haven't posted for a while I have been busy. Recently First Devon and Cornwall has won the bid to take over all the retendered r...
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Laurence Mayhew
Hello. I am a young transport enthusiast from the Plymouth area here to give you all the goings on of public transport in and around Plymouth - with occasional blogs on other sectors.
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