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Rally Programme WESTON-SUPER-MARE BUS RALLY Including Crosville Motor Services Depot Open Day SUNDAY JULY 27 10:00 ~ 17:00 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WESTON LIONS CLUB BEACH LAWNS • WESTON SEA FRONT £5 Day Rider 1 adult, 1 child Unit 2, Westland Distribution Park, Winterstoke Road, Weston-super-Mare BS24 9AD 1 • Vintage buses operating on our • Restoration projects on display services 100 and 152 at depot • Free rides on vintage buses • Purchase of programme entitles from Beach Lawns you to Day Rider travel on all • Free secure parking at Crosville commercial routes Winterstoke Road depot • Connecting service from Beach Lawns & Weston-super-Mare Railway Station to Depot • Modern bus & coach fleet on display at depot • Trade stands at depot CONTENTS Welcome ..........................................................................................................................................................................3 Free bus rides .....................................................................................................................................................4-6, 16 Vehicles attending ....................................................................................................................................7-9, 12-13 Timetabled services ..................................................................................................................................14, 15, 17 Site maps .................................................................................................................................................................10-11 1. Personal safety: for your own safety while 3. Children: all children must be supervised on site, please do not enter any operational or by an adult at all times. non-public areas. Be especially careful around 4. Free travel: the purchase of this moving vehicles and obey Site Marshalls at all programme allows the admission of one times. adult and one child to the depot and entitles 2. Hazardous areas: our depot is part of a one adult free travel on all CMS commercial large estate managed by May Gurney. There services on Sunday 27 July 2014. Any children may be traffic associated with other businesses. travelling must be paid for at the published rate. If you visit our workshop area please be aware of machinery and equipment which may present a trip hazard. Spillages may also occur inadvertently anywhere on the site so please tread carefully. Main cover photo: 14 Bristol-built buses (and one Bedford) line up near Weston’s Grand Pier after the Crosville Rally in 2012. Photo: John Dawkins. 2 Welcome to our 2014 Bus Rally Welcome to this year’s Crosville Bus Rally. 2014 has been a great year for our company locally and has seen the launch of some new services in Weston-super-Mare which demonstrates continued growth throughout Weston and surrounding areas. Our bus rally plays a important part in the town’s calendar and, in providing enjoyment New to the Crosville fleet is VDL 613S to both our visitors and local community, I (another Bristol VR) which will be operating hope that it is seen as our way of saying the 100 service, a route number that has “thank you” to everyone for their support a long history in Weston, again newly both locally and indeed beyond our normal restored for the 2014 season. operating fields. A special ‘Town Circular’ tour will run every Once again you will have the opportunity 30 minutes throughout the day, enabling to visit our depot on the Westland you to ride on many different buses from Distribution Park where some of our the Crosville active heritage fleet. Please operational fleet will be on display and see page 6 for more details. also have a chance to talk to some of the To add to the day you can experience a Crosville staff. large static display on the Beach Lawns, For 2014 we have expanded to the Beach showcasing transport icons of years gone Lawns and joined forces with the Weston by. There will be an extensive free bus Lions Club’s Real Ale Festival. A key part service as well which will depart from of this event is to support local charities, the static display area. Special thanks to something which the Lions Club has been the Bristol Omnibus Vehicle Collection doing successfully for many years. Our aim which again has supported our event is to add something new to their event as wholeheartedly and it does give you the well as helping to raise further funds to opportunity to enjoy some pure Bristol benefit the large number of charities which Omnibus Company nostalgia. they support. Your programme entitles you to travel free Our event will see some of our local of charge across the Crosville commercial bus service routes operated by heritage network today as well as on the free bus buses, complete with conductors just like services. the old days. Service 100 to Sand Bay will Please do enjoy your visit and I look feature a 1975 legend in the form of LEU forward to seeing you today! 263P (a Bristol VR open top bus) which Jonathan Jones-Pratt is something quite close to my heart as I remember this bus operating the 100 back Managing Director, in the 90s. It’s great to see her still going Crosville Motor Services Limited. strong and doing what she does best. 3 FREE BUS SERVICE [Photo: Bristol Road Transport Collection] A free shuttle bus service will run during the Running Day, linking the main rally site on the Beach Lawns and the town centre with the depot. Frequent heritage bus services will run on services to the depot and to Uphill. Timetables for these services are shown opposite. Mystery Tours: subject to operational conditions it is hoped to run a number of Mystery Tours during the day using Heritage Vehicles - see notice board for details. Vehicles operating on these services will be drawn from the following pool: 1949 BRISTOL L5G C2736 (LHY976) 1949 BEDFORD OB “219” (MHU193) 1949 BEDFORD OB/DUPLE 207, (MHU49) 1950 BRISTOL L6B 2467 (NAE3) 1950 BRISTOL LSX5G 2800 (NHU2) 1952 BRISTOL KSW6B L8089 (OHY938) 1965 BRISTOL MW6G 2138 (BHU92C) 1966 BRISTOL MW6G 2150 (FHW156D) 1972 BRISTOL LH6L 353 (DHW293K) Vehicles will attend subject to availability. We reserve the right to substitute published vehicles and timetabled services at any time to suit operational requirements. The information in this programme was correct at the time it was prepared. We cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions. 4 Service 101 Crosville Depot - Weston Sea Front Crosville Depot 1000 1030 1045 and then at 00 15 30 45 until 1200 1230 and then at 00 30 until 1500 Station Rd, opp. Tesco 1005 1035 1105 these mins. 19 34 49 04 1219 1249 these mins. 19 49 1519 Bus Rally stop 1007 1037 1107 past each hr 23 38 53 08 1223 1253 past each hr 23 53 1523 Bus Rally stop 1030 1100 1115 1130 1145 1200 1215 1230 1300 1330 and then at 00 30 until 1500 1530 Station Rd, opp. Tesco 1034 1104 1119 1134 1145 1204 1219 1234 1304 1334 these mins. 04 34 1504 1534 Crosville Depot 1053 1123 1138 1153 1208 1223 1238 1253 1323 1353 past each hr 23 53 1523 1553 Crosville Depot 1515 1530 1545 1600 1615 1630 1645 1700 Station Rd, opp. Tesco 1534 1549 1604 1619 1634 1649 1704 1719 Bus Rally stop 1538 1553 1608 1623 1638 1653 1708 1723 Bus Rally stop 1545 1600 1615 1630 1645 1700 1715 1730 5 Station Rd, opp. Tesco 1549 1604 1619 1634 1649 1704 1719 1734 Crosville Depot 1608 1623 1638 1653 1708 1723 1738 1753 NOTES Additional journeys may be operated to meet traffic requirements. If overloading occurs, duplicate buses may run. Where possible this service will be provided by vintage double deck buses with a conductor on board. A great deal of care and expense has gone into the restoration and upkeep of the vintage buses used on these services and passengers are asked to treat the vehicles and their fittings with care and not to eat or drink whilst on board. Whilst every effort will be made to operate the journeys timetabled, the company can accept no liability for loss or damage incurred from the non operation of the service. Service 102 Uphill - Old Pier (Knightstone) TIMETABLE A Uphill, Wharf 1000 1030 and then at 00 30 until 1600 1630 1700 Old Royal Hospital 1005 1035 these mins. 05 35 1605 1635 1705 Grand Pier 1010 1040 past each hour 10 40 1610 1640 1710 Old Pier, Knightstone 1015 1045 15 45 1615 1645 1715 Old Pier, Knightstone 1030 1100 1130 and then at 00 30 until 1600 1630 1700 1720 Grand Pier 1035 1105 1135 these mins. 05 35 1605 1635 1705 1725 Old Royal Hospital 1040 1110 1140 past each hr 10 40 1610 1640 1710 1730 Uphill, Wharf 1045 1115 1145 15 45 1615 1645 1715 1735 Service ??? Uphill - Old Pier (Knightstone) TIMETABLE B Uphill, Wharf 1000 1020 1040 and then at 00 20 40 until 1600 1620 1640 1700 Old Royal Hospital 1005 1025 1045 these mins. 05 25 45 1605 1625 1645 1705 Grand Pier 1010 1030 1050 past each hr 10 30 50 1610 1630 1650 1710 Old Pier, Knightstone 1015 1035 1055 15 35 55 1615 1635 1655 1715 Old Pier, Knightstone 1020 1040 and then at 00 20 40 until 1600 1620 1640 1700 1720 Grand Pier 1025 1045 these mins. 05 25 45 1605 1625 1645 1705 1725 Old Royal Hospital 1030 1050 past each hr 10 30 50 1610 1630 1650 1710 1730 Uphill, Wharf 1035 1055 15 35 55 1615 1635 1655 1715 1735 ‘TOWN CIRCULAR’ SERVICE 108 A free ‘Town Circular’ service will run throughout the day at 30 minute intervals, using selected vehicles from our active heritage fleet. The service will run from 10am until 4pm and buses will depart from the main rally site on the Beach Lawns. To add an element of mystery to the service, departures on the hour will be operated by one of our more recent acquisitions, Southern National Bristol RELL HDV626E. Departures on the half hour will be operated by buses selected at random from our heritage fleet.
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