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20515 (WV02 EUR) is running late for the 1200 hrs 403 service for Victoria - despite the blind setting

20525 (WV52 KTJ) was one of the prototype wheelchair-accessible coaches for National Express. Its 12.8 metre Plaxton body features a chairlift on the centre nearside

23505 (WM04 NYV) is a Volvo B12B with Plaxton bodywork, here seen in The Haymarket in Bristol.

53005 (GU52 WTC), a former East Kent Volvo B12M

59208 (FJ56 OBT) in Herne Bay

7087 (FNL 687W) in a special livery for the 960 service from Liverpool, Manchester (where it was photographed) and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where it was based.

A convoy of National express coaches head into Wales across the original Severn Bridge

Ambassador 180 (FD54 DGU)

Amberline F100 UNV is a LAG Galaxy G355Z

Amberline F99 UNV leaves Leeds Wellington Street

Arriva Classic 8943 (X143 WNL)

Arriva Midland Fox 3204 (YJ03 PFX) is a VDL SB4000/Van Hool C49F

Barton 648 (E648 DAU), a DAF MB230 with Plaxton bodywork finished in National Express colours,and operating at Milton Keynes Coachway. It was running the 450 service from London to Mansfield when captured.

Bebb, Llantwit Fadre CN54 HFE is a Volvo B12M with Jockheere Mistral 50 C49FT bodywork.

Bebb, Llantwit Fardre CN04 NFD passes Travel London ES 3 (LJ56 VSU), one of the early Enviro 200s in service

Bebb, Llantwit Fardre CN04 NFF

Bebb, Llantwit Fardre CN54 HFG

Bebb, Llantwit Fardre F 57 YBO on the M5. It was a Leyland Tiger TRCL10.3R with Duple 340 C51FT bodywork.

Bebbs, Llantwit Fardre F 57 YBO was a Leyland Tiger with Duple 340 coachwork

Berry, Taunton RSJ 826Y was an ex- demonstrator Volvo B10M-61 which they briefly employed on National Express work before setting up a successful competing operation between Taunton and London

Black & White 110 (PDD 110M)

Bournemouth 320 (FJ06 GGF)

Brighton Hove & District 407 (C377 PCD) passes Plymouth 27 in St Budeaux, Cornwall

Bristol 2167 (LHU 663L) in Bristol on the 50th anniversary of the first service to London

Bristol 2167 (LHU 663L) on the 50th anniversary of the Bristol - London express service.

Bristol Leyland Leopard on a Penzance 700 service run

Bruce, Airdrie SF04 WMY is a Bova FHD13.340

Bruce, Salburgh FJ58 AKK

Burton, YN54 ZHL, a B12B/Plaxton coach

Burton, Haverhill YU04 XFC, a Volvo B12B/Plaxton.

Burton, Haverhill YU04 XFD

Cambus JVF 819V passes through the outskirts of London

Careza Co-op WED 990S, a Ford R1114/Duple dominant that began lifs with Smiths

Chalfont, Southall WA54 HXW

Chalfont, Southall WA56 ENL is a Volvo B12M/Van Hool, running on the Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday 1715hrs Bristol - London National Express 040 service.

Chalfont, Southall, WA56 ENL and WA06 CDY are a pair of Volvo B12M/Van Hools with run extended weekend scheduled service at 1715 and 1745hrs from Bristol to Lodnon for National Express

Cheltenham and Gloucester 2214 (A214 SAE) en route from Birmingham to Swindon. It was a Leyland Tiger TRCTL11.3R with Plaxton Paramount 3200 bodywork.

Chenery, Attlebrough FJ05 AOW is a Jonckheere Mistral 50-bodied Volvo B12B

City of Oxford 12 (RFC 12T) was the company's only National Express allocation.It is seen arriving from Oxford in Sheffield Pond Street bus station with the 310 service to Newcastle.

Cityrama B579 NTW

Cityrama B579 NTW

Classic, Annfield Plain 143 (X143 WNL) was formerly with Arriva Northumbria. It is a DAF SB3000 with Van Hool C49FT bodywork

Crosville CRL 293 (BFM 293L) on the first working of the 940 London We;shman service prepares to depart from Caernarfon

Crosville CTL 69 (C69 JTU) pictured on the M6 near Shap [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

Crosville Wales MCF 277 (F77 CJC) returning on the 755 shuttle service from Digbeth to Llanwrst

Crosville Wales MCF 277 (F77 CJC), the Carlyle-bodied Fiat when new

Cumberland 642 (VAO 642Y), a leyland Leopard PSU3G.4R with an ECW coach body, pictured operating the 735 service to Barrow-in-Furness... in Stroud (Gloucestershire) bus station

Davies, Rye D396 BPH sporting the Tourist Trail livery outside the Tower of London (Alan O. Watkins Collection)

Devon General 3520 (AFJ 712T) on the M5, running to Westward Ho on the 712 service.

Dorset Travel Services D735 PJW, pictured at Heathrow

Dunn Line 5621 (FJ56 YWA)

Durham Travel Services THL 290Y in Edinburgh

East Kent 5907 on the M2

East Kent 8835 (BKR 825Y), a Leyland Leopard with ECW bodywork

East Kent 8842 (FKK 842Y)

East Kent Leyland Leopard/ECW on National Express duties

East Midland/Mansfield 30 (NAK 30X) in Sheffield. It was a Leyland Leopard PSU3F.4R with Duple Dominant IV C47F bodywork.

East Yorkshire 4 (GRH 4Y) on a fairly deserted M62

East Yorkshire 4 (GRH 4Y), a Leyland Tiger/Plaxton Paramount

East Yorkshire 18 (C118 FKH)

East Yorkshire 18 (C118 FKH) , showing missing bodywork between the rear drive wheels

East Yorkshire 18 (C118 FKH) and Yorkshire Voyager 2711 (B83 SWX) in Liverpool (Skelhorne Street) coach station

East Yorkshire 18 (C118 FKH) swings into the coach station at Liverpool with Lime Street station providing a rail backcloth

East Yorkshire 4 (GRH 4Y) in Bradford

East Yorkshire 4 (GRH 4Y) on the M62

East Yorkshire 4 (GRH 4Y) on the M62

First Coaches 20533 (WV52 AKY)

First Coaches 23201 (YN04 YHY) and Truronian,Truro TX06 NEX

First Coaches 23321 (YN06 CGU) in Gloucester bus station

First Coaches 23322 (YN06 CGV), a Scania K114 EB4 with Irizar PB bodywork in Gloucester bus station

First Group 20510 (WX51 AJV) was new as First Southern National 6302

First Manchester 23016 (YN54 APO) is a Scania K114 with Irizar bodywork, pictured in Newmarket

First Western National 20518 (WK02 UMA)

Flights, Birmingham S296 WOA

Go Northern 7101 (FJ08 KNV) operating the 0720 hours 304 service to Weymouth from Liverpool through the centre of Oxford

Go West Midlands 51 (YJ03 PGZ) is a DAF DE40XSSB4000 with Van Hool bodywork.

Greenslades 1402 (A942 MDV) on the M5 near Weston-Super-Mare

Greenslades 1402 (A942 MDV), an MCW Metroliner photographed on the M5 near Bristol as it was being filmed for a National express promotional video.

Hastings & District 133 (VKN 833X) on the London run from Hastings

Highland Country 669 (FN04 JZR), new to Rapson as its 669, and pictured in Newport, Gwent, on the way to Swansea

J. Fallas, Leeds C998 DWY

J. Fallas, Leeds C998 DWY was a DAF MB200 with Duple C51FT bodywork. It is seen on the M5 near Birmingham, operating the 300 service to Plymouth

Jones International, Llandeilo A206 TAR was a Berkhof-rebodied AEC Reliance that was new to East Kent. It is seen near Five Ways, Birmingham.

Jones International, Llandeilo A206 TAR was formerly a mundane AEC Reliance belonging to East Kent. But it was rebodied by Berkhof for National Holidays work, and eventualy was sold on.

Jones, Aberbeeg UC 2.77 as National Welsh UC 1153. It was a Leyland PSU3E.4RT with Duple Dominant C49F bodywork dating from 1977

Kingfisher 271 (MRJ 271W) [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

Leyland Leopard on the Severn Bridge

Lincoln 63 (A844 SYR) was new to Cowie (Grey-Green)

Lincoln 63 (A844 SYR) was new to Cowie (Grey-Green). The Leyland Tiger TRCTL11.3R/Duple Laser is seen in Lincoln.

LL 803 (HVG 803V) after transfer to CAmbus as its 433. It would later figure in the Western National fleet, but here is seen at Oxford Circus on a 798 service for National Express from Cambridge

London Country TD 27 (YPD 127Y) on the 325 service to Bradford via Birmingham

M5/M42 junction, looking south west

Midland Fox 779 in Leicester

Midland Red 191 (HHA 191L) runs through Worcester

Midland Red 198 (HHA 198L) heads for Birmingham from with the Almondsbury interchange in the background [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

Midland Red 451 (JOX 451P)

Midland Red 832 (LOA 832X) was the last vehicle to be delivered to the company before it was broken up a month later into constituent parts. It was photographed on the M6

Midland Red CM5 at speed on the M1 in its earliest days. These coaches were capable of 130 mph. The picture dates from 1959. [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

Midland Red early production Leyland Tiger 832 (LOA 832X) on the M6 near Sphaghetti Junction, bound for Edinburgh

Midland Red Express 568 (A668 XDA) after it became Ambassador Travel's ML 905

Midland Red South 77 (C 77 XWK)

Midland Red South 78 (C78 XWK)

Midland Red's trial Leyland Tiger, 832 (LOA 832X) on the A38(M) between Digbeth and the M6 Spaghetti Junction

National Express - the parting

National Express 002 (NXI 9002)

National Express 005 (NXI 9005)

National Express coaches in a posed publicity shot in Swindon (Alan O. Watkins Collection)

National Express D 6 (T206 AUA) - DAF SB3000/Van Hool at Gatwick South

National Express D735 PJW, by then with Dorset Travel Services, is tracked by the ex-East Kent AEC Reliance/Berkhof rebody, A206 TAR

National Express LK53 KVT, a Volvo B12B with Transbus (Plaxton) bodywork

National Express Operations D 324 (Y324 HUA), a DAF DE33WSSB3000/Van Hool in the colours of Virgin Atlantic for itsshuttle service between Heathrow and Gatwick

National Express Operations Scania in Newmarket on the 727 to Gatwick

National Express V 29 (LK53 KWF), a Volvo B12B with Transbus (Plaxton) bodywork, at Stansted

National Express V 29 (LK53KWF) is a Volvo B12B with Transbus Paragon bodywork

National Travel North East KWB 471P (NBC/Alan O. Watkins Colln)

National Travel West 1249 (HNE 249V), a Leyland Leopard PSU5C.wr/Duple Dominant II. The roof boxes housed videos that were dropped into the gangway for showing during Rapide journeys.