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Description: | The GWR motor omnibus, with its crew, parked outside the Royal White Hart Hotel in Beaconsfield. The Great Western Railway's motor bus service ran from Slough railway station and began on 1st March 1904, one of the earliest of the company's bus services to be established. The service offered two routes: one via Salt Hill and Farnham Royal to Beaconsfield, the other via Stoke Poges to the "One Pin" for Hedgerley, with a single trip daily extending to Beaconsfield. The journey time to Beaconsfield was 45 minutes with a fare of one shilling. As well as carrying passengers and their luggage, GWR also used the buses to provide a parcel carriage service.The bus shown is AF 64, licensed in Cornwall in February 1904. Initially, the buses were the same brown and cream as the GWR railway carriages, but within 10 years the green of the locomotives was adopted.
The postcard is part of "The Christchurch Series" | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Great Western Railway ; Railways ; Buses & coaches Great Western Railway ; Royal White Hart Hotel ; Beaconsfield ; Christchurch Series | Temporal: | start=1904-03-01; end=1920-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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