Stagecoach (Southdown Motor Services Ltd) in the former Southdown area, extending to Hants & Surrey and Hampshire Bus as well as
Brighton & Hove
First Hampshire & Dorset
and Eastbourne Buses.
Every month members receive The Journal
which gives them up to the minute news of
the operators covered - vehicles,
service changes and publicity matters.
We hold Winter Meetings usually featuring an illustrated talk, often from a prominent speaker from within the bus industry.
Our next meeting will be on
Saturday 18 October 2008.
Philip Ayers, Organiser of Cuckmere Community Bus, has kindly agreed to give an address at our October meeting on the above date.
It was March 1999 when Philip last came and presented an address at one of our meetings, and since then the Cuckmere Community Bus operation has continued to expand in both the routes and number of vehicles operated, and has also been involved in some innovative developments.
Further details will be available nearer the time.
As usual, the meeting takes place in Portslade Town Hall, Victoria Road (opposite the site of the main Southdown Motor Services overhaul works). Doors open at 18:00 hrs with the programme due to commence at 18:30. There is a small charge of £1 per head to offset hall hire costs.
The Club's sales stand will be there as well as the photo circuit photographs.
NON MEMBERS WELCOME.
EVENING MYSTERY TOUR - Friday 25 July 2008
We were fortunate to be able to use Stagecoach's VR JOU160P - now kept at Winchester. Here 160 (which is allocated Stagecoach national fleet number 15760) waits at Hove Station for the second tour vehicle to arrive.
The tour followed at not-very-direct route via Woodingdean, Falmer and Beddingham to reach the A259 at Newhaven. At Bishopstone, the route of the old A259 was followed onto the seafront at Seaford.
The second vehicle turned out to be the recently converted open topper Scania 781 in City Sightseeing livery. It is the spare vehicle and can normally be found near Brighton's Palace Pier.
The photostop also called for the tow buses to be posed side by side - like this.......
....... and this.
Final destination turned out to be Beachy Head - 160 poses at the Top of Beachy Head bus stand with appropriate route number in the display. 781 arrived shortly afterwards having got lost in central Eastbourne. The driver of 160 knew where he was going ......
Thanks are due to the two drivers, Jim Smith and Gerry Cork, who gave up an evening of their time (and couldn't even have a beer to compensate!), Roger French from Brighton & Hove and Andrew Dyer and Chris Pearce from Stagecoach.
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The Club Sales stand is usually present at all our meetings as well as attending several
of the major Bus Rallies in the South.
Recent publications
Fleetlist - 2008 Edition - NOW available
Get these, and a lot more, from:
SEC SALES
You can also download our current Sales List.
Complete
this form then print it and send it to:-
Hon. Secretary (SEC),
11 High Cross Fields,
CROWBOROUGH,
East Sussex,
TN6 2SN,
United Kingdom
Alternatively, send an A5 S.A.E. with two first class stamps to this address
for a membership form and a sample of our monthly magazine "The JOURNAL".
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