issue 200 (December 2025 – January 2026)
In our 200th issue we look at a number of buses that carried the fleet number 200 and a Cardiff trolleybus that was meant to be numbered 200 … but somehow wasn't. Also in this issue, Jeremy Williams is off on a day trip to Southport with another relation, an uncle this time, and he shares some of his pictures of those ex-London Transport RTs that ran in Yorkshire.
We’ve had quite a bit of correspondence about Atlanteans climbing hills recently, and Roger Davies recalls more of their antics in the Alps of Kent (Chatham, that is). We have a Bristol Lodekka in Bedford turning a corner in the snow, so there’s a story to tell. The National Bus Company used to proclaim, “Together we can really go places.” Well, remarkably, it’s back – the slogan that is, not NBC!
Mike Fenton tells us all about bodywork by Samlesbury in his latest Classic Coachbuilders feature, and we learn about cleaning buses in South Wales. Our delve into The Bus Archive reveals how Charles Klapper managed to get out and about in rural Shropshire during the Second World War to photograph rural bus services. And talking of rural rides, we discover a Morris Marina estate car and a Land Rover performing Postbus connections in the wilds of Scotland.
in this issue
- day trips to Southport – Jeremy Williams remembers
- the number 200 – as seen on buses
- those Yorkshire RTs – a bit more about them
- it should have been no. 200 – the story of a Cardiff Trolleybus
- in the Kent Alps – up and down the hills of Chatham
- Bedford in the snow – with a Lodekka, bicycles and British cars
- together we can really go places – Richard Lewis experiences a bit of déjà vu
- The Eden lives on – in a Plaxton Derwent bodied Leopard
- bodies by Samlesbury – another classic coachbuilder
- rural rides in the war – from The Bus Archive
- changing postbuses – in the middle of nowhere
- keeping it clean – in South Wales