When Stroud's buses were green
(and even red)
9th Stroud Bus Running Day 2009
2009 Running Day Report
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We continue our retrospective of the 9th Stroud Running Day in words and images
 By 1975, the trusted though under-powered (for Stroud) Bristol MW needed replacement. Though the MW type did soldier on for a few more years, there was a modest influx of Bristol LH models. Here we have original and successor side by side as they would have been from 1975 to 1979, though the MW is, of course, in Tilling rather than the leaf green of the LH Relevance to Stroud: 5/5  Western National Ks long outlived the 1950 transfer of Western National to Bristol Tramways at Stroud. A small batch of Western National Ks were delivered to Stroud just before the depot passed to the Bristol company, the last of which was withdrawn in 1966. Like that above, the favourite haunt of the ex-WNOC Ks was always The Track (421 Chalford-Stroud-Stonehouse) Relevance to Stroud: 5/5  Bristol FLF Lodekkas are very much a welcome sight at Stroud Running Days. There returned after a year's gap a closed top example of this much-loved type, with a Bristol engine to boot, here seen with an open top FLF following. FLFs were, of course, common on Stroud's backbone trunk routes during the 1960s and 1970s, the last examples of which were withdrawn as late as 1981 Relevance to Stroud: 5/5  Of little or any relevance to Stroud whatsoever but nevertheless looking handsome is this Harrington Cavalier bodied AEC Reliance formerly of Neath & Cardiff Luxury Coaches. This was a first at Stroud Relevance to Stroud: 0/5  Another relative oddity was this former Fishwick's late Leyland National 2, preserved relatively locally (when compared to Preston) in the camouflaged livery of its original owner Relevance to Stroud: 3/5  Wearing his Stroud Valleys privatisation uniform from 1987 to 1993 is Mike Cooke, once a long standing Stroud driver who now works for Cotswold Green. Note the Stroud Valleys blazer and Cotswold (the coaching brand) tie Relevance to Stroud: 5/5 |
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