THE HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
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 The Reading - Heathrow Railair Link service received some of the 1979 batch of Plaxton Supreme IV Express Leyland Leopards in a distinctive new livery for this prestigious route. Leopard 1192 (WJM812T) is seen at Reading Station. Others of the batch were in all white National livery. |
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 Sister coach 1193 (WJM813T) is seen in Reading depot yard. |
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This Leopard is seen at Heathrow with one of Rickards' similar coaches on the Railair Link service to Feltham Station. |
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 In the nineties Alder Valley was progressively dismembered, with the area equating to the old Thames Valley operations being sold to Len Wright as Beeline. Besides its London coaching interests and London Buslines LRT contracted services, Len Wright was also the UK agent for Berkhof. This copled with a panchant for Scania chassis resulted in batches of Berkhof bodied Scanias for the Heathrow route. Scania 743 (J743TDP) is a K113CRB seen at Terminal 4 in the silver and red livery also used on the previous batch of Duple 425s. |
In the days of Thames Valley, the Reading-Heathrow service (route H) was the most profitable route of the lot, and in later days probably the only profitable route. It was no surprise when Len Wright sold the Reading and Newbury Bee Line operations to Reading Buses, that this route was retained and operated from Bracknell depot. Scania K113CRB 797 (N797WAN) is seen at Reading Station with another in the same batch, both in yet another livery for the route.
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