45 years of coach photography
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There are 2,000 coaches in this collection. It is part of a pictorial record of nearly 40,000 buses and coaches, plus ships, planes and trains, from the Alan O. Watkins Collection that is now available for research on the web.
Now - if you liked this, why not visit the sister collection, 45 Years of Bus Photography?
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Royal Blues, Kingskerswell LIB 806
Recent Changes
2008-05-10 14:09:22
1 image added to WA Shearings (and predecessors)
2008-05-10 14:06:12
1 image added to Seddon
2008-05-05 16:21:34
Added new collection Stamford (45 images)
2008-04-23 20:37:04
20 images added to Latest
2008-04-14 08:39:07
Added new collection Dutch coach scenes (21 images)
Links
  • Black & White remembered
  • Ellisons Coaches
  • Silver Star, Porton Down
  • Oxford Bus Museum
  • Len Wright band buses
  • NBC
  • SCT61
  • Harringtons - the definitive website
  • Wonderful continental site!
  • South African coaches
  • AECs in their thousands
  • Bus Station (search engine)
  • PSV Circle - fount of all bus facts
  • UK bus and coach lists - first owners
  • AEC - well written, envy the pics
  • Irish Transport pictures
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    Gallery Stats
    Photo Hits (today):414
    Photo Hits (this week):2866
    Photo Hits (this month):12231
    Photo Hits (this year):162083
    All-Time Hits:550578
    Collections:65
    Most Recent Collections
    AEC Reliances (51 images)
    AECs and Maudslays (13 images)
    Albions (3 images)
    Arriva The Shires - coaches (21 images)
    Bebb, Llantwit Fardre (21 images)
    Bedford OBs, Odds and Sods (9 images)
    Bedford SB (34 images)
    Bedford VAL (21 images)
    Bedford VAM (38 images)
    Bedford VAS (12 images)
    Bedford Y-types (145 images)
    Bere Regis and District (6 images)
    Bova (58 images)
    Bristol coaches (49 images)
    Brits in France (14 images)
    Bus Eireann (3 images)
    Charabancs and early normal-control coaches (9 images)
    Coach and Bus Live, NEC, October 2007 - coaches (21 images)
    Crash victims (91 images)
    DAF coaches (71 images)
    Day trippers (28 images)
    Dennis coaches (23 images)
    Doubledeck coaches (103 images)
    Duple 425 (10 images)
    Euro Bus Expo 2006, Birmingham NEC - coaches (75 images)
    Excelsior, Bournemouth (23 images)
    Flights, Birmingham (6 images)
    Ford and Thames (100 images)
    Gash, Newark, in Lincolnshire ownership (3 images)
    Go West Midlands coaches (3 images)
    Grey Green and Cowie (26 images)
    Hummer as a coach! (2 images)
    Iveco - Beulas (27 images)
    Leyland Leopards (87 images)
    Leyland Royal Tigers (1980s) (5 images)
    Leyland Tigers at work and rest (54 images)
    Leyland Tigers, Tiger Cubs and Royal Tigers (26 images)
    M.A.N. (21 images)
    Megabus ex-Hong Kong tri-axles (2 images)
    Mercedes Benz (41 images)
    Mini coaches (4 images)
    Mini-coaches (9 images)
    Motorway action (21 images)
    NEC Coach and Bus Show, 1989 (18 images)
    Neoplan (30 images)
    Park, Hamilton and its predecessors (49 images)
    Prescott battle bus, 2005 election (7 images)
    Rail replacements between Bath and Westbury (6 images)
    Random coaches (127 images)
    Scania (107 images)
    Scrapyard scenes (69 images)
    Seddon (14 images)
    Setra (120 images)
    Southport day trippers, 1984 (20 images)
    Stephenson, Rochford, Southend (9 images)
    Syon Park Bus and Coach Show, 1983 (27 images)
    Tellings Golden Miller on National Express work (5 images)
    Those were the days, my friends... (42 images)
    Volvo B 7 and B12 (84 images)
    Volvo B10M (127 images)
    Volvo B58 (31 images)
    WA Shearings (and predecessors) (136 images)
    Whittle, Highley and its predecessors (51 images)
    Willowbrook failings (13 images)
    Yelloways, Rochdale (22 images)
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    Welcome
    The first coach photograph that I took was in May 1962 when I went to Rome.
    It is part of a collection of over 40,000 pictures that I have put on the web, that can be seen by referring to the "Other Galleries".
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    Other Galleries
  • 45 years of bus photography
  • SHIPPING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EUROPE
  • Western National, Southern National and Royal Blue
  • Bristol Omnibus and Badgerline
  • Back end of a bus
  • National Express
  • Transport postcards of the 20th Century
  • Crosville
  • Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset
  • Arriva Southern Counties in Kent, Medway and Essex
  • Britain's PTE fleets
  • Cyprus and Malta Buses
  • Scottish buses and coaches
  • NBC in South Wales
  • Medway River
  • Midland Red & Carlyle Works
  • THE WORST RAIL PICS EVER
  • Kent bus scene
  • Corporation bus fleets of England
  • London's Buses
  • National Bus Company (NBC) in England
  • Three Counties buses - Gloshire, Worcs and Herefordshire
  • Bus, coach and transport ephemera (stops, stations, logos etc)
  • Corporation bus fleets of South Wales
  • Kings Ferry, Gillingham
  • Road vehicles
  • Planes - even worse collection than my trains
  • Flowers and trees, plants, animals and birds
  • Egyptian Buses and Coaches
  • Egyptian Holiday, 2006
  • Watkins - home and away
  • People and Places
  • Black & White Motorways and National Travel (South West)
  • City of Oxford, South Midland and Oxford Espress
  • Continental bus and coach operations
  • Workingarea
  • First Group Buses
  • Stagecoach Across the UK
  • St George's, HMS Pembroke - Royal Navy memorials
  • Bus Gallery
  • Corfu's bus and coach transport, 2008
  • National Express West Midlands
  • Copyright
    All pictures are the copyright of Alan O. Watkins, or are (where stated) from the Alan O. Watkins Collection.