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Bank Holiday fun.

            As has been the case for the last however many years, my August Bank Holiday weekend has been spent at Bala, North Wales, working the free bus service in conjunction with the Lake Railway's Steam Gala. From memory, each year has seen a different bus used by us for our diagramme, whilst our good friend always supplies his Crosville Bristol 'L' for his portion.
This year involved something of a step out in faith as we were able to use freshly restored ex Eastern National Bristol FLF Lodekka EOO 590. The bus has been under restoration for many years with us at Reliance Bus Works, but hasn't been active for probably 40 or so years. It was a big ask for it to run from North Staffs to Bala, then operated shuttle services over three days then return to North Staffs, but amazingly (and thankfully!) it completed everything asked of it with aplomb.
It would be unreasonable not to mention here its owner Ian Rudd who has thrown eyewatering amounts of money at the project for without someone like that, the bus would probably still be derelict or even have been scrapped.
EOO 590 is seen here with Andrew Hayward driving and Ian Rudd conducting as it returned to Llanuwchllyn station at the close of play Monday afternoon.
   

Taken in: UK / Wales / Llanuwchllyn / Llanuwchllyn (show map)

Taken on: August 27, 2024

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