East Grinstead Classic Bus Running day.

21st April

For my birthday this year I went for a ride on this:

and this:

and this:

and this (which as far as I can recall is the first time I've ridden on an RF, certainly a Green Line one):

and this:

and this:

and had a rather good day in and around East Grinstead, seeing a bit of the country I'm not that familiar with.

I also got to meet, albeit briefly, Pete of Pete And His Bus fame.

Bus running days are a rare occasion when you can actually ride other people's classic vehicles rather than just look at them. For free too, although I made sure to buy the programme/timetable the tenner for which goes towards the costs. You don't want to think about the mpg figures for these vehicles! 

I'm not sure that the planned timetable "survived first contact with the enemy" but there were plenty of different buses of varying ages to see and I'm sure I missed some of them but here's the

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