SOME OF THE TOWN BUSES OF DORSET |
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AN URBAN FORAY BUT STILL IN DORSET Rossmore Bus - the early days -
the story of Miss Foott's buses
from the 1920s to the 1980s Rossmore
Bus - later years - up
Monkeys Hump and down Heavenly Bottom, from 1983 onwards Rossmore Relief - a hectic Saturday lunchtime in the sun Roadliner - the Rossmore Flyer reborn, and again in private operator's hands from 2006 until summer 2009 Poole Bay Services - an early entrant in the annals of bus deregulation back in 1986 Routemaster Bournemouth - competitive operations on the streets of the holiday resort in 1993 and 1994 Late turn 114 duty - or the joys of driving a Routemaster Yellow Flyer - short lived minibus operations by Bournemouth Transport Shamrock
Buses - recalling the orange and cream livery of Shamrock
& Rambler Coaches of days gone by Charlie's Cars -
cheeky green and white
minibuses
around Bournemouth from 1986 to 1988
Dorset Transit - a newer operator with a most interesting raison d'etre, but now sadly no more Interbus - from Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge across the Dorset heaths Weybus - Steve Oxbrow tells of competition in the Dorset seaside town of Weymouth from 1995 to 1998 Smiths of Portland - buses to Portland run by Portlanders some years ago Sureline - blue buses on the Portland route, then further afield too |
 
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