THE SHOWBUS LONDON & HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Eastern National | National Bus Company liveries
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 Luxury awaited prospective Alder Valley passengers at Windsor & Eton Station looking to travel to Reading via Bracknell on the 192 in the shape of hired Eastern National Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied Bristol RELH6G 429 (LWC980J). Lesser mortals had the Leyland National behind. |
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 Newer RELH6G 449 (XOO879L) was placed, more appropriately, on Alder Valley's Reading-Heathrow Railair Link service and is seen on the forecourt of Reading Station. |
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 Sister vehicle 447 (XOO877L) was used similarly, but is seen resting in Alder Valley's Reading depot. |
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 A fascinating history lies behind Eastern National 1404 (VHK177L) seen here at SHOWBUS in 2008. The coach started life in 1972 with Tillings Travel as 9441. Tillings was a subsidiary of Eastern National at the time and later formed part of National Travel South East. The coach was selected in 1981, when it was ENOC 1404 to be the prototype for the final mass produced coach body by ECW which it is seen modelling. Its original attractive ECW body was scrapped. The coach transferred to Bristol Omnibus in 1985 and became part of Badgerline's fleet the following year. In 1992 the Bristol RELH6G was sold to Yorkshire operator Northern, where it stayed until going into preservation in 1998. In 2010 it found a home at the East Anglia Transport Museum. |
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 Eastern National has had a long coaching tradition and in NBC days coaches were widely used on the National Holidays programme. An unusual purchase was a batch of four of the rare MCW Metroliners only built in the mid eighties. Seen at the NEC in 1984 is 1603 (B460WHJ) a type CR126/9 with, of course, MCW 51 seat coachwork. Sharing the stand was the first of another four for Premier Travel, 306 (B192JVA). |
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