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A quick notice to all visitors to this site!

Due to the fact that I am now back at college, and college and education does take a massive priority over buses and photography, there will be very limited updates to the site.
There will be the odd update, but nothing as extravagant as you have seen over the past few months while I have been away from college.
Maybe a few photographs from trips out over weekends that will contain a little more photographs than the week-day updates, but nothing too big.

Rest assured the site will not close just updates will not be as plentiful as they have been before.

Right, thanks to everyone for their continued support to the site, thanks to all the commenter’s and I do mean all of you! Thanks also for a massive 190523 total hits so far (the last time I checked)!

If you enjoy the site, have any suggestions, recommendations, if you would like to use some of my photographs for anything at all, if you’d like to invite me somewhere to take photographs of your vehicles, or anything really, please do get in touch, my email address can be found by clicking on any of my photographs, and then looking on the top of the page!

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James Stoker


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Welcome to North East and Yorkshire Buses.

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.

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, I would like to have older photographs on my site, but I guess its really a luck of the draw thing that I don’t, 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 very 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 (Skelton Coaches) and Dave Cass (M&D Travel), also various drivers (such as John Atkin, Joe McGregor, Kelvin, Dave Jefferson, and Peter (all at Tees Valley), Frank (A1 Coaches), 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 S.
September 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 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...
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Stagecoach 14675 H675BNL 16437 685DYE.jpg   This is a look back into the not too distant past, a look back to when Leyland Olympian’s such as 14675 (H675BNL), seen here in Stockton Depot ready to work a school contract, proudly drove along Stockton High Street and the other roads in the area, a look back to when these ex Busways (amongst other previous operators) Volvo Olympians, the one portrayed here being 16437 (685DYE), ferociously worked such services as the 58 – and as in this photograph school services. Sadly these days are now of the past. I offer this photograph as a little retrospective look at Teesside’s recent transport history. It is also a photograph which shows the many similarities between the Northern Counties bodywork on both 14675 and 16437. I also apologise for the quality of this photograph, but I feel it is the subject matter rather than the quality that is important here!   z Some Older Photographs  (68)
P653VWX.jpg   I was never too fond of East Lancashire Coachbuilders (ELC) single decker offering of the East Lancs Spryte when it first turned on the scene, not least for its misspelt name, visually it is a single decker version of the East Lancs Lolyne (also misspelt), the East Lancs Spryte was succeeded by an all round better looking East Lancs Myllennium (another misspelling). This vehicle, however is one of the 1996 introduced East Lancs Flyte’s a step entrance version of the Spryte, here P653VWX is seen with Stephenson’s of Easingwold, the vehicle was new in 1997, is on a Scania chassis, even I have to admit looks striking in the magnificent crème, orange and red colours of its operator – something else which makes this vehicle stand out all the more to me is that it was one of three of these vehicles new to Black Prince in 1997 (the others being 654 P654VWX which passed to NIBS and 655 P655VWX which passed to NIBS and then Isle Coaches, as did 653 P653VWX until its purchase by Stephenson’s) – all in all it makes a rather unimpressive vehicle on first glance all the more noteworthy.  31st October 2009 York   (42)
4656 NK05GXL.jpg     07th November 2009 Eldon Square & Stockton  (28)
z Style Travel LOA383X.jpg   It was shocking, and deeply distressing to hear on Thursday night, that at around 1145pm Style Travel’s Horden depot outside of Peterlee was found ablaze, leaving all but three of the company’s vehicles totally destroyed, the fire is being treated as arson, and I can’t fathom why someone would do such a thing, total idiots! MCW Metrobus LOA383X was one of the seven vehicles destroyed. Here we see a photograph of it in better times when I visited the depot in December 2008. I offer my deepest condolences and best wishes to Peter Grufferty and all of his staff and drivers.  z Some Older Photographs  (26)
4509 V509DFT.jpg     07th November 2009 Eldon Square & Stockton  (23)
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This is a look back into the not too distant past, a look back to when Leyland Olympian’s such as 14675 (H675BNL), seen here in Stockton Depot ready to work a school contract, proudly drove along Stockton High Street and the other roads in the area, a look back to when these ex Busways (amongst other previous operators) Volvo Olympians, the one portrayed here being 16437 (685DYE), ferociously worked such services as the 58 – and as in this photograph school services. Sadly these days are now of the past. I offer this photograph as a little retrospective look at Teesside’s recent transport history. It is also a photograph which shows the many similarities between the Northern Counties bodywork on both 14675 and 16437. I also apologise for the quality of this photograph, but I feel it is the subject matter rather than the quality that is important here!
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