This book captures the final decade of the Eastern National name, starting with the company becoming part of the ever-expanding Badgerline Group in April 1990. Badgerline wasted no time in partitioning its new acquisition as it created new subsidiary Thamesway, which took over operations in the south of Essex and tendered routes in East London. A new livery was introduced in 1993 with colours based on Eastern National’s parent company. Badgerline merged with GRT in 1995 to form FirstBus, w...

The 1990s was a period that saw the last vestiges of old company liveries and fleet names and also saw the slow (at first) dawning of the era of the low-floor bus. In this fascinating look at the bus scene of those years in Kent, south Essex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire, from St Albans to the Isle of Wight and from Reading to Folkestone, and many places in between, David Moth presents a terrific selection of previously unpublished images, all taken by the author of buses...

This book covers the ever-changing bus scene in and around Perth, the Fair City. Including a wide variety of locations in Perth itself as well as surrounding villages and towns such as Blairgowrie, Crieff, Spittalfield, it covers the tail end of the Perth bus war with Routemasters being used by both Stagecoach and Strathtay as they competed for passengers. The story is brought up to date with images documenting the scene’s evolution over the years. The photographs are arranged in chronolog...

David Moth documents the surprisingly varied bus scene in Chelmsford, one of Britain’s newest cities, since 2001. The main operator is First, whose fleet in the city is mainly single-deck due to the famous low railway bridge in Duke Street, although the fleet does still have a few double-deckers. In fact, the number of double-deckers in Chelmsford has increased in recent years as First have converted several inter-urban routes to double-deck operation. The new liveries recently introduced ...

This book covers the ever-changing bus scene in Norfolk, Suffolk and northern Essex since 2016. Operators featured include First Essex, First Eastern Counties, Arriva Colchester, Ipswich Buses and the Go Ahead Group, as well as independents such as Sanders and Panther. A wide variety of locations are explored, such as Ipswich, Norwich, Dereham, Great Yarmouth, Colchester, Harwich, Clacton and Braintree. Major operators in these areas have surprisingly varied fleets displaying a range of li...

Adhering to what is considered statutory Outer London, this collection of images covers various vehicle types, operators and locations in Outer London since 1990. This book covers the final few years of London Buses plus various independent operators such as Capital Citybus and Grey Green on LRT tendered routes. It also covers the gradual fading away of familiar London types such as Fleetlines, Metrobuses and Titans, and their replacement by more modern double-deckers such as Tridents, as ...

In this book David Moth chronicles buses in South West England between 1990 and 2005. This was a time when there were still a lot of older buses in service in the region in a variety of different company liveries now very much consigned to the past. Areas covered include Wiltshire, Dorset, Avon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, and parts of Somerset and Devon. Operators include, among others, Badgerline, Cityline, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Smiths, Wilts & Dorset, Southern National and First Weste...

Essex is a diverse county ranging from the urban areas in the south, such as Brentwood, Basildon and the huge Southend conurbation, to the less built-up central and northern areas, which include interesting places such as Chelmsford, Braintree, Halstead, Colchester, Billericay, Finchingfield, Clacton and Walton on the Naze. The varied nature of Essex is reflected in the fascinating abundance of bus operators in the county, ranging from national operators such as Arriva and First, to growin...

This collection features images of buses taken throughout most of Northern England although it mainly concentrates on the historic counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Other places, however, are included such as New Brighton, Birkenhead, Warrington during the time of the bus war in 1995, Hartlepool, Bishop Auckland, Barrow-in-Furness, Workington, Carlisle and Middlesbrough.There are images taken from a wide area from Chester to Hull and from Sheffield to Carlisle, taking in some now-vanis...

Having inherited various fleets in Essex and Kent, Arriva serve a number of locations throughout these two counties. They also operate out of the former London Transport garage in Harlow and own the former municipal businesses of Colchester and Southend. This means that Arriva buses can be seen in a wide variety of locations in Essex, notably the Southend area, but also in Harlow, Chelmsford, Braintree and Colchester. In addition, they can be found in large areas of Kent. This book include...