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Toilets, fast services, catering on-board, hostesses and stewards, and quality coaches were all important in bringing back passengers to the long-distance coach network.
But the key factors were a national image - which ended the colourful scenes in coach stations across Britain - interchanges close to motorways, and fixed frequency services, usually every hour.
That - and a grim determination by the management of National Express to succeed.
They did, and today the business they founded is a multi-billion pound business quoted on the FTSE 100, and known worldwide - not least in America where the company owns the second-biggest fleet of school buses.
There are around 1,500 photographs currently in my National Express, part of a ocllection of more than 33,000 transport pictures that I have made available for research and study, yes and enjoyment, on the internet. |
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My Black & White Motorways collection has now been given its own gallery.
Scan down the "Other Galleries" and click on to Black & White Motorways. There are nearly 200 pictures in the collection, covering the earliest days up to its final demise. |
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| 47 years of bus photography
47 years of coach photography
SHIPPING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EUROPE
Western National, Southern National and Royal Blue
Bristol Omnibus and Badgerline
Back end of a bus
Transport postcards of the 20th Century
Crosville
Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset
Arriva Southern Counties in Kent, Medway and Essex
Britain's PTE fleets
Cyprus and Malta Buses
Scottish buses and coaches
NBC in South Wales
Medway - the tidal river, communities, places, ships and scenery
Midland Red & Carlyle Works
THE WORST RAIL PICS EVER
Kent bus scene
Corporation bus fleets of England
London's Buses
National Bus Company (NBC) in England
Three Counties buses - Gloshire, Worcs and Herefordshire
Bus, coach and transport ephemera (stops, stations, logos etc)
Corporation bus fleets of South Wales
Kings Ferry, Gillingham
Road vehicles
Planes - even worse collection than my trains
Flowers and trees, plants, animals and birds
Egyptian Buses and Coaches
Egyptian Holiday, 2006
Watkins - home and away
People and Places
Black & White Motorways and National Travel (South West)
Oxford Bus, City of Oxford, South Midland and Oxford Espress
Continental bus and coach operations
Workingarea
First Group Buses
Stagecoach Across the UK
St George's, HMS Pembroke - Royal Navy memorials
Bus Gallery
Corfu's bus and coach transport, 2008
National Express West Midlands
Lauren is here
Independent bus and coach fleets in Britain
Rebodied buses
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| All pictures are the copyright of Alan O. Watkins, or are (where stated) from the Alan O. Watkins Collection. |
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| Hits (today): | 39 |
| Hits (this week): | 713 |
| Hits (this month): | 4133 |
| Hits (this year): | 60728 |
| Hits (all-time): | 311967 |
| Collections: | 40 |
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