Welcome to North East and Yorkshire Buses, a bus photography website by James Stoker.
In this site I attempt to detail buses and goings on in Tyneside, Durham, Teesside, Hambleton, Esk Valley, Harrogate and the Dales & Moors... I try to take a different angle to most bus photographers, occasionally venturing to out of the way places, or out of the way routes and so on to get photographs where they’re aren’t really many photographs taken, this however is only when I get the time.
I do try to update this site roughly three times or more each week, however sometimes this does not happen, due to other restrictions and constraints. I don’t devote every day of my life to gallivanting about photographing buses, across the region, I get photographs where I can and when I can. I am not like some people, who seem not to have other commitments (or a care in the world about more important matters, such as; work, family, friends, education and so on) as said I update when I can. Also my time is taken up with college work (yes even when I am off college, you still have to work!!!) so sometimes there is a delay in uploading photographs to the site, I have priorities, and as much as I enjoy my bus hobby, college work, and work comes first!
I myself have been taking bus photographs since about 1995, however most of these now have since gone missing, I 'seriously' started bus photography in the early 2000's... Most of the photographs on the site however are modern, there are some older photographs on the site, these are ones I have acquired through slides purchased with copyright, and photographs passed down through the family.
Of course some of the modern photographs wouldn’t have been possible without the help of those in the bus industry, mainly the few owners of companies I know, and I am basically indebted to these people for the hospitality they have shown to me, when visiting their depots or riding on their buses / coaches, people who I’d like to give a special mention to are;
Everyone at Compass Royston & Procters Coaches
Brady Dixon (Rainbow Coaches)
David Stainthorpe & Paul Stainthorpe plus his drivers and of course Peter Greensmith
Dave Cass (M&D Travel)
Also to thank are the various drivers from the companies I photograph to list them all would be impossible, so I shall give some of them a special mention;
John Atkin
Joe McGregor
Dave Jefferson
Steve Foster
Colin Gatenby
Denny Teasdale
Pam Gibson
Daniel Duffy
Stuart Grey
Wayne Picknett
Richard McGowan
and all the other friendly drivers for the many companies whose buses I photograph.
If you have any questions about buses in the photographs or anything else, leave them on the comment system, feel free to leave comments on the site, if the comments contain questions I will see these quicker and hopefully answer them within a day or so...
Feel absolutely free to leave comments on the photographs, all I ask is no daft comments, these will be removed before they even are shown to the public so there is no point it is just a waste of your time, and mine, I will answer any questions about vehicles, but I will not answer any about vehicles that have been in accidents or anything like that.
My work has been used in Coach and Bus Week magazine, in BUSES, in newsletters for many preservation groups in the area and also by some local bus and coach companies for promotional work! So if you would require any photographs for publication or for corporate use please do contact me, use the leave a message facility for this. Or use the leave a message facility to ask for my email!
Thanks, I hope you enjoy the site, if you do get in touch!
James Stoker
January 2009
PLEASE NOTE: Where photographs on this site are taken inside depots, appropriate permission has been sought, and have been taken while wearing hi-visibility and safety clothing and/or being escorted around the depot...
Photographs may appear on the gallery which have been taken while working with the company portrayed, in these the photographs have been taken with the relative permissions and consent has been sought before placing on the site... |
