Merseyside Bus Club
MBC Tours Programme
MBC Tours Programme
Familiar colours, unfamiliar vehicle: Arriva Nederland M-B Citaro O.530G 7940 at Amsterdam, June 2006.
It looks like a B-type but it's actually a Bedford: we used 946 WAE on our Evening Tour to Chester in July 2006.
A MAN / MCV of Countryliner, Guildford, at Showbus 2006
The Merseyside Bus Club's Tours Programme is probably unequalled in its coverage of places of transport interest throughout Britain over the last thirty years - from the Shetlands to the Channel Islands there can't be a location of significance we haven't visited at least once in that time. More recently, with the advent of cheap flights from Liverpool Airport, we have taken advantage of the opportunity to look at the overseas scene too.
The Club marked the occasion of the 1,000th vehicle to be used on one of its Tours when former Ribble Leyland PD3 TCK847 took us round West Lancashire on the Malcolm Barrington Memorial Tour on November 18th, 2006. We try to plan our itineraries so that as many vehicles of interest as possible may be sampled by the attending members; this is a particular feature of our Tours By Public Transport which use scheduled public services throughout.
Every tour undertaken is chronicled in the next available Review and if you want to get a better idea of what goes on on one of our tours then you could do worse than download the free sample issue from the Review page; this contains reports on our day tour to the Optare works in Leeds and on the holiday tour to the Western Isles.
Forthcoming Tours
Sunday 11th March 2012 |
LOCAL TOUR Our objectives are Cass Coaches at Moreton, the Wigan Transport Trust at Holmeswood, the Merseyside Transport Trust in their new premises in Burscough and the North West Vehicle Restoration Trust in Kirkby. Starting 0840 Broadgreen (city bound stop), then 0900 Liverpool, 0910 Birkenhead and 0920 Prenton. The lunch break will be in Ormskirk town centre. |
Saturday 7th July 2012 |
PWLLHELI. It is anticipated that the Wakestock Festival will be in progress at Pwllheli, occasioning an influx of Arriva DDs from outside the area, to operate shuttle services to the site. Outward and return journeys will be via the North Wales Coast, with operator visits en route. Starting 0740 Broadgreen, then 0800 Liverpool, 0810 Birkenhead, 0820 Prenton, 0845 Chester (rear of First Depot) and 0900 Chester (Rly Stn). |