West Wilts and surrounding area bus history sought

grahame

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West Wilts and surrounding area bus history sought

« on: December 28, 2011, 09:26:57 »

I'm researching local bus history as part of a "brief history or transport and transport industries in the Melksham area" paper than I'm writing over the next few months - planned to be informally published as a booklet, and with old and new photos, diagrams, etc.

Does anyone have any old bus guides, books, references, photos, etc from West Wilts / Bath / Devizes / Chippenham that might help me ... full acknowledgements will of course be included. I'm looking back to surprisingly recent times - it seems that there's very little local bus history indeed online. It's almost as if buses didn't exist before the Web!


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ChrisB

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Re: West Wilts and surrounding area bus history sought

« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2011, 10:38:22 »

I suspect timetables etc might be found in your local reference library?....I'll be surprised if they're not archived....


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Rhydgaled

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Re: West Wilts and surrounding area bus history sought

« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2011, 12:04:09 »

Old bus timetables often seem to be deleted from most websites when a new timetable has been running instead for a bit, so I've not found out when some changes to bus services I was trying to find out about happened (mainly it was the operator who runs the service that changed).


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