THE SHOWBUS LONDON BUS IMAGE GALLERY
London Country AN class | Leyland Atlantean AN68
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The first major doubledeck class of vehicles for the newly separated London Country operation, was the AN, Leyland Atlantean AN68. The first 123 were dual door, the remaining 170 had only a front entrance. Bodies were built by Park Royal, except for MCW (AN91-120) and Roe (AN184-293). Secondhand buses took fleet number AN294-325, AN346-387, AN500-506 and AN800-809.
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AN1 (JPL101K), now preserved and seen at the 2000 North Weald Rally, is in its original London Country green and yellow livery, complete with the 'bats wing' motif. Its former duties on the 321 were then in the hands of Arriva's new gas powered DAFs, since displaced by Citaros, then Streetlites, then anything available!
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At the time, despite deliveries of new deckers to Watford and Aylesbury (in Arriva colours) ex London Country AN buses soldiered on in High Wycombe, mainly on school contracts and services to Bucks College, though they did find their way on to stage services, usually the 372 to Chesham. This AN is coping with the usual crush of morning traffic round the John Hampden and Wycombe High Grammar Schools at Handy Cross where a new bus lane for school buses had just been installed.
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Shires 5039 (JPE233V) - formerly AN233 - drops students in Marlow.
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AN121 (VPB121M) is preserved in the attractive, but short lived colours of London Country North East. It is seen here at a rather wet North Weald Rally in 1999.
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