Sunday 12 May 2024 – Mid Norfolk Railway Bus and Coach Day, East Dereham

I had a trip on board Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol RELH LDV 467F which was new in March 1968 to the Southern National Omnibus Company with fleet number 2375.

Preserved in the Royal Blue livery of the style adopted by the coach operators of the south-western area of the National Bus Company circa 1970 prior to the formation of National Travel.

Royal Blue was a coach operator jointly owned by the Western National Omnibus Company and the Southern National Omnibus Company. The latter was later subsumed into Western National.

In this forward view of the cab area the driver was approaching to take the coach to the former County School railway station about 6.5 miles north of East Dereham near North Elmham.

County School station opened in the 1880s to serve a school established about ten years earlier that provided education for the sons of farmers, tradesmen and such in the rural area.

It was a great ride offering the sights and sounds of travel on a 56 year old coach. The USB plug point is a later addition!