Dewsbury Bus Museum
The West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust
Running Day 2011
Organised by the West Riding Bus Group, our first-ever running day event took place on 22nd May 2011, with a base on Heath Common, near Wakefield. A dozen buses ran in service, and crowds of bus enthusiasts and families with children brought picnics and spent the day riding on the buses. The street collection raised £208.99. This money will go towards the restoration and upkeep of the buses at Dewsbury Bus Museum.
We are very grateful to Metro, who allowed us to run our services into bus stations at Dewsbury, Ossett, Castleford and Pontefract.
Arriva, as usual, were extremely generous in allowing us to run six buses per hour from Wakefield Bus Station, and provided us with a bus to use as a control centre and staff rest room on a rather breezy Heath Common.
The event will be repeated, with improvements, in May next year. The date will be published as soon as it is finalised.
This page contains photographs of most of the buses that ran at the event. If you have put your own photographs or videos of the day on the internet, please let us know and we will provide a link for you on this page.
To see a video of the event on YouTube, click HERE.
Dewsbury Bus Museum member June Hare was a "clippie" at the Yorkshire Woollen Frost Hill depot, where she started work back in 1951. She came out of retirement specially for the running day, working on Huddersfield 472 to Pontefract and back, and on our own "Ethel" (West Riding 733) between Dewsbury and Heath Common.
"OFFICIAL" PHOTOGRAPHS
Left:
Our own 1950 Albion Valiant, South Yorkshire 81 (TWY 8)
Right:
An unexpected bonus was the immaculate Western National 2019 (824 KDV) which stepped in at the last minute to cover a trip for a visitor who couldn't make it when his radiator sprung a sudden leak.
Left:
Colin Sidaway's Huddersfield 472 (HVH 472D) performed the long haul to Pontefract and back on service 66 twice.
Right:
The surprise vehicle for the mystery tours was this open-topper, Southdown 267 (BUF 267C), which proved a very popular attraction, in spite of the strong winds during the afternoon.
Left:
Steve Hurley's Leyland Lynx, West Riding 377 (J377 AWT), still carries the livery from her final service days as Midland Rider 1014.
Right:
Yorkshire Traction 245 (NKU 245X) loads up ready to depart for Wakefield on service 52.
Left:
Another open-topper, Keighley 60 (C147 KBT), which started life as Yorkshire Rider 5147, operated on services 69 to Dewsbury and 20 to Ossett.
Right:
Greater Manchester 1466 (H466 GVM) squeezes between some rather carelessly parked cars outside the Kings Arms.
Left:
Kelvyn Waites' Halifax 35 (PJX 35)
Right:
West Riding 733 (EHL 344), better known as "Ethel".
Bottom left:
Adam Smith's Lynx, West Riding 252 (C920 FMP).
Bottom right:
The Control Centre - Arriva Yorkshire 1413 (YJ57 BVX)
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