Open Day - Sunday 6 November 2011

Lincoln 23 and Lincolnshire 2115 at Eastgate on the afternoon 'City Tour'		Lincolnshire 860 loads passengers for an afternoon 'country tour' departure	Northampton 129 on a late afternoon 'Park & Ride journey

We would like to offer our thanks to everyone who came to and took part in this year's 'end of season' event on Sunday 6 November, once again setting a new record for this event.

We had well over 1,000 visitors, fine autumn weather, and more rides than ever before offered on a wider selection of vehicles.

The areas reserved for visiting classic vehicles were filled to capacity, and in addition to cars from the Museum offering rides, 38 buses and coaches ran on our 'bus services' (full list here). Between them, they operated over 150 journeys, with over 4,000 passenger journeys made from the Museum terminus, with up to 24 bus departures per hour at peak times.

Open Day 'service' debut vehicles included the Museum's Bristol RE, Lincoln 73, following a summer travelling the County as part of the Lincolnshire Co-operative's 150th anniversary celebrations, Bristol VRs Crosville DVG 270 and Lincolnshire 1904, former Western National Lodekka 1943, a 1948 AEC Regal III new to Burnhams of Worcester, and, making a 300 mile journey to visit the event from the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, Seddon Pennine / Alexander M type Eastern Scottish XS 750A - probably venturing east of the A1 in Lincolnshire for the first time.

Marking 84 years of development since the oldest bus in service ('Lincoln 1'), and representing the ninth separate decade for buses in service was the latest addition to the Delaine Buses fleet, in the form of a new Wright bodied Volvo B9TL.

Saturday - Lincoln 23 gets a wash ready for the event	Two generations of former police cars on display
Some of the stalls inside the Museum building	Visiting Coles Crane, made in Grantham, on display
Museum Cheverolet LQ operates another short tour.	Lincoln 73 on the day's last journey from Lincoln Station
Thanks to H Casey, J Child, A Hides and D Powell for the photos on this page.

As ever, we are indebted to all the owners of participating vehicles, and our friends and neighbours - Anglo Structural Engineering Ltd, Green of Lincoln, A Green Engineering (Lincoln) Ltd, all the businesses at Hillcroft Business Park, Krystals Ltd and Lincolnshire Co-operative Ltd - for the use of their premises, and Stagecoach in Lincolnshire for their ongoing support.

We would welcome any more photographs taken at the event (particularly those showing vehicles 'in action') for inclusion on our web site or possible publication in the Society's newsletter.

Many of our visitors have put their photo / video selections on the web, including-

ACBest (Flickr)
Aire Valley Transport Group (Flickr)
Andy's Bus Blog (Blogspot)
(ADDED JAN 2012) - Bigdan14025 (Flickr)
emdjt42 (Flickr)
(ADDED JAN 2012) - Fatphil48 (flickr)
Focus Transport (Flickr) - part 1 - part 2
Helen Casey (Picasa)
James Morgan (You Tube) -part 1 - part 2
Martin 65 (Flickr)
Matthewburton28 (Flickr)
Mr BG (Flickr)
RL Buses (Flickr)
UVL 873M (You Tube) - journeys on CVL 850D and UVL 873M

(All remain copyright of their owners)

If we have missed your collection and you would like us to link to it, please contact us -

More photos on Page 2

See more about previous events - Easter 2011 - November 2010