New Bus For Target Travel

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Latest addition to the Target Travel fleet. Seen being collected last monday.
(c) Dave G

A Look At Buses In Madeira

Many Thanks To My Nan And Granddad For Theses Photos

More Can Be Found At photobytom.fotopic.net

Safety Signs

Safety Signs Like This Are Going Up At Bus Stations And Bus Depots

The Strange thing about this sign is that you have to walk on the Vehicle Concourse to read it !!

Posts Over The Next Days
Torpoint Buses Running Services In Plymouth
A Look At Buses In Madeira

Penzance Trip

Just a quick post for today have a few long posts planed for this week

More photos from my trip can be found at photosbytom.fotopic.net

Bus Station Problems

Here is an funny side to the bus station barriers it took them around 10 minutes to work out that they should lift the barrier and let the bus move forward


More photos from my day off can be found on my fotopic


also i will be taking a trip to penzance on sunday so sould be able to get some nice photos

New Truroian Coach Livery

Since the sale of Truroian There has been a few changes

One of them shown below the new Coach Livery

Pictures Thanks To Simon Coates

St Ives Trip

Sunday saw been and bobby and Bobby's friend take a trip to st Ives on the train nothing really to report on the trip but some nice photos below

we have thursday off school so hopeing to get out and about around the plymouth area

Mousey Housey

A passenger on an 83 service reported to an UN named driver that she saw a mouse at the back of this bus our school bus driver has also reported sightings sadly none in the last few days to it seems the mouse has left the bus

Fleet Updates

No news on bus/coach company's buying coaches but below are a few local coaches up for sale

Hookways coaches
1998 Plaxton Premire 350 Volvo B10M £49,500,00
57 Seats

Dac Coaches
2005 Bova 13M 53-57 Seats
2006 Mercedes Touro 260k auto luxury coach

There will be a much more exciting post in the next few days once i have found out a bit more information

Speed Limit For Bus Station

10 mph speed limit for Breton side sadly this sign was not switched on as it would of caught the western grayhound vario speeding around the corner

Fleet News

Every month i will be doing a fleet news post i will try to do different operators each month

Western Grayhound Ltd,Summercourt,Newquay

New Alexander Dennice Double Deckers
Wk58 EAE (401) (Branded For Service 510) (Newquay-Exeter)
wK58 EAC (402) (Branded For Service 510) (Newquay-Exeter)

Also I Have The Registration Numbers And Fleet Numbers For 9 Out of the 23 Optare solos

701 WK58 EAE (Branded For Service 525/526) (St Austell-Par)
702 WK58 EAF (Branded For Service 525/526) (St Austell-Par)
703 WK58 EAG (Branded For Service 525/526) (St Austell-Par)
704 WK58 EAJ (Branded For Service 525/526) (St Austell-Par)
910 WK55 BUS
911 WK06 SUN
912 WK06 SET
913 WK57 TAF
956 WK56 PEN

First Devon And Cornwall

Truroian Mercedes Benz
711Ds 51112/20 N212 KB, N170 KAF ) Have been sold to erith commercials Dartford (Dealer)

Bristol Temple Meads Trip

Bristol Temple Meads Trip Yesterday me and bobby Went To Bristol Temple Meads. The day started with me and bobby meeting at the train station around 0845 we collected our tickets and boarded the 0925 Cross Country Service to Bristol temple meads. We then collected a small amount of photos and videos. Around 1300 we went into the city centre to get our lunch and headed to the bus station and collected loads of photos which can be seen at photosbytom.fotopic.net. It was then time to head back to the train station just enough time to get a few more pictures and videos before it was time to board the train to Plymouth. overall a great day out, although sadly none of my videos came out

Torquay Trip Nothing really to report here we had a very full dart on the way up and an empty double decker on the way back, Around the South Brent area there was a broken down trident don’t know what the problem with it was yet.

Dawlish Trip

Yesterday (Tuesday 16^th February ) Saw me and bobby take a trip to Newton abbot and Dawlish we started by both of us meeting at Plymouth train station we got our tickets and boarded the train we got of the train at Newton abbot and got straight on our connecting train to Dawlish we spend a little time in the arcade then went to get some train videos we managed to get around five videos but then we decided to get some chips once being chanced by 2 seagulls we finally managed to get back to the train station get a few more videos and head home and that sums up our day at Dawlish
the videos from yesterday trip can be found at youtube.com/user/tomtransport28016

tomorrow I am taking my Nan and granddad to Torquay on the bus


I Tried to uploadvthe video here but it did not work

This is a print screen of a video i took at plymouth station today whilst waiting for a train to dawlish. The video can be found on my youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3e9MEVCn30 Tommrows Post:
Our Trip To Dawlish

First Trip Of The Holidays

For the first trip of the holidays we decided stay local and plan our other trips. So me and bobby decided to meet at the train station around 2pm. Due to the bus before bobbys braking down bobby was running 10 minutes late. Which was not a great start, we then went into the train station and got a few prices for trains and took some photos of the rail replacement coaches. Then headed into town to get the service 2 out to mount batten. We have made a few plans shown below so by the end of this week there should be a nice amount of photos on my fotopic

Monday 15th Febuary
Newton Abbot And Dawlish

Thursday 19th Febuary
Tiverton Parkway And Bristol Temple Meads

Sunday 22nd Febuary
Cawsands, Cremly

I will also be going to Torquay On Wednesday 18th Febuary With My Nan

Bus/Train Trips Planed For The Holidays

Sunday 15th Febuary: Plymouth Bus Station
Tuesday 17th Febuary : Dawlish TBC
Thursday 19th Febuary: Tiverton Parkway,Bristol Temple Meads
Sunday 22nd Febuary : TBC

Just A Quick One

The New Target Travel Pink Optare Solo In Hospital Link

Will Be Posting About My Trips In The Next Few Days

Lack Of Posts

Sorry for the lack of posts this week

i am hoping to post more next week as i am planing a few trips during the half term week

Bristol temple mead's

dawlish

and some local trips


check back soon

Today saw me and Bobby Darch take a Trip around Plymouth, The fun started for me before I got to town. Whilst walking up to the train station to catch a bus into town, I was a little early so I decided to take a look at some of the rail replacement coaches. Whilst taking a photo of a gray cars coach (that sadly did not come out ) I noticed it was my good friend mike he was doing a Dead rail replacement service to Exeter St David’s after a long chat to him he offered to drop me at the bus station along with 6 other people i then met up with bobby and his dad. We then went to catch the service 11 to john kitto we then headed to the Trathens Coaches depot to take some pictures. we finished taking photos just before the heavy rain came and legged it for the bus we got of the bus at mutly plain and walked down to the train station to get some photos of the coaches I then nosiest our school bus driver john driving a coach so we went and talked to him for a while when I looked at my phone I realised that sadly we were out of time so I went back home overall a great day out

more photos on my fotopic see links

A Long Way Off But Still

Junior Field Gun Crew Family Dog Show Knights in armour!
Medieval costumes soaking the person in the stocks! Plenty of yummy food outlets. vintage bus rides and much more

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