HAS SHOWBUS GOT IT'S MOJO BACK I THOUGHT SO

It's getting a bit late and we are just about to have our dinner. Today was Showbus and despite late afternoon rain which really closed the show a bit early it was quite a good one. Thoughts for next year which i understand will again be at Donington are that Martin would be better off abandoning the vehicles numbered places and go over to parking up in echelon as they arrive thereby speeding up the entrance and avoiding blocking the main road as happened for much of the morning. The signage could have been better and the catering seemed thin on the ground. Toilets were plentiful and well maintained and cleaned throughout the day and everything seemed a lot more compact than at Duxford. The vehicle content was spot on and avoided those ranks of coaches where an operator bring dozens of very similar machines.

​ There was a good spread from old to new and lots of regions covered with naturally a good shoeing from the East and east Midlands and Staffordshire. There could easily have been more of a presence from the North West and Yorkshire, even from the North East although of course these regions were represented and all power to those who travelled great distance with plenty of Scottish buses and my mate Stuart from deepest Swindon and thanks to Thamesdown for making a vehicle available for a non official entry at the event. I loved the entry road and how the buses had to work to come up the slope, it took a bit to get the passengers waving, perhaps they couldn't see me. I seem to have got a fair amount of film, two well endowed films I think. The light was changeable, ok for video mostly and photography at a push. Here is my first sample of early arrivals.