https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/Recent content in Snippets on Vintage Transport & Postcards | Buses, Railways & Maritime HeritageHugoenTue, 03 Nov 2026 15:09:25 +0000https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bullet-nose-locomotive/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:09:25 +0000https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bullet-nose-locomotive/Postcard From The Past: GWR King Class No. 6014 King Henry VII was fitted with a experimental bullet nose, one of Britain’s most unusual steam engines.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/cradley-interchange-clock/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:12:51 +0000https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/cradley-interchange-clock/A historic clock from Cradley Heath Interchange, preserving a piece of local transport heritage and celebrating the area’s bus and rail history.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/oldham-corporation/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:25:25 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/oldham-corporation/Oldham Corporation Transport operated electric trams and Leyland buses in Lancashire from 1900 until joining SELNEC PTE on November 1, 1969.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/oldest-scottish-bicycle/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:46:44 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/oldest-scottish-bicycle/Gavin Dalzell built a treadle bicycle in 1846, hailed in 1888 as the first until MacMillan’s earlier 1839 claim sparked a lasting debate.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/poem-the-old-stage/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:49:27 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/poem-the-old-stage/Poem: A bittersweet tribute to the golden age of public transport, capturing the quiet echo of wheels, bells, and memories left behind.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/flying-boats-buses/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:32:17 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/flying-boats-buses/From flying boats to 1950s buses. How post-war shortages forced a maritime aircraft builder to engineer the world’s lightest aluminum bus bodies.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/transport-uniforms/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:55:59 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/transport-uniforms/When we had bus conductors, they were well turned out in their smart uniforms. Manchester and Glasgow’s transport systems were fine examples of that.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/battle-buses/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:19:39 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/battle-buses/In 1916, the British Army experimented with a completely different kind of camouflage using London’s civilian workhorses: the LGOC B-type double-decker.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/review_bus_coach_recognition/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:19:39 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/review_bus_coach_recognition/One of the most in-depth books I’ve come across about vintage buses and coaches. A very handy reference guide that is just the right size to carry.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/tiger-cub-1961/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:35:05 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/tiger-cub-1961/This Alexander-bodied (Fife) Leyland Tiger Cub is an uncommon survivor, particularly in its restored period livery. The Cub was reliable and economical.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/beamish-museum/Mon, 25 May 2026 00:31:52 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/beamish-museum/Travel back in time with the Beamish Museum. Walk down cobbled streets and mingle with folks dressed in period costumes. Take a ride on tram or vintage bus.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/oporto-tram-196/Tue, 19 May 2026 02:06:33 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/oporto-tram-196/This former Portuguese tramcar was built in 1935 and has been lovingly restored by the skilled mechanics and bodybuilders at the Beamish Museum.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/galloway-car/Tue, 12 May 2026 19:38:00 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/galloway-car/Dorothée Pullinger and the Galloway Car marks the centenary of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), which Pullinger co-founded. (23 June 1919/2019)https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/wrights-gemini/Sat, 09 May 2026 00:02:58 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/wrights-gemini/This quite modern Wrights Gemini double-decker with the Volvo B7TL underframe is currently being lovingly preserved at the Aldridge Transport Museum, Walsall.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/wooden-car/Fri, 08 May 2026 23:36:26 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/wooden-car/Now here is an oddity - a wooden car. With parts taken from an Austin Maxi, an Austin Allegro and other bits. This eccentric vehicle has six wheels.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/ribble/Fri, 08 May 2026 22:22:01 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/ribble/Fron its humble start in 1919, Ribble Motor Services was more than just a bus company, it was an integral part of everyday life across Lancashire.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/mcgills-buses/Thu, 07 May 2026 21:42:01 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/mcgills-buses/McGill’s is based in Greenock Scotland. From its beginning at Barrhead in 1933, it is now become the largest independent bus operator in the UK.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/leopard-tow-truck/Thu, 07 May 2026 20:58:11 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/leopard-tow-truck/The Leyland Leopard was a mid-engined single-decker bus manufactured between 1959 and 1982. This example extended its life by becoming a tow truck.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/no-engine/Tue, 05 May 2026 21:47:11 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/no-engine/It is late September in 1959 and a small boy age seven is staring in disbelief at the front of a large red double-decker bus.‘Where’s the engine?’https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/mayne/Tue, 05 May 2026 19:10:55 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/mayne/Founded in 1920 by Arthur Mayne, A Mayne & Son began as a small Manchester garage and haulage business before turning its focus to passenger transporthttps://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/deregulation/Tue, 05 May 2026 18:59:26 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/deregulation/British prime minister Margaret Thatcher took control of regulating the buses from the local councils to allow private bus companies to run their own routeshttps://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/glasgow-buses/Tue, 05 May 2026 11:17:20 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/glasgow-buses/For more than a century, Glasgow’s buses have been part of the city’s heartbeat, from ‘Corpy’ days, to the multi-coloured buses serving the city today.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bus_mobile_libraries/Mon, 04 May 2026 23:03:47 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bus_mobile_libraries/When older buses are withdrawn from public service, they are either sold, scrapped, preserved, or one or two were repurposed as mobile libraries.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bus_stop/Mon, 04 May 2026 19:16:05 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bus_stop/Standing at a bus stop in the UK can be a chilly and wet experience, especially in Scotland. It certainly helps if bus shelter is provided.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/auchenshuggle-express/Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:30:21 +0000https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/auchenshuggle-express/A little boy had just been given a new toy gun. Chaos erupts on the Number 9 tramcar to Auchenshuggle as he and his mother head home.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bus-campaigns/Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:18:11 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/bus-campaigns/Bus campaigns, usually led by non-profit non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), are increasingly shaping how public transport evolves.https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/say_thanks/Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:00:08 +0100https://vintagetransport.org/posts/snippets/say_thanks/Some funny stories regarding bus drivers and their eccentric passengers - do you always thank the driver when get off the bus?