The highlight of the Cornwall Bus Preservation Society's year are the Penzance Running Days when historic buses run in and around Penzance and West Cornwall; usually April
Penzance Running DayEach year in April CBPG holds an Annual Running Day with free bus trips around West Cornwall - check our Events for more information 2019 - Paul behind the wheel!
2019 Running DayEach year in April CBPG holds an Annual Running Day with free bus trips around West Cornwall - check our Events for more information in Mousehole, Paul just driven into Mousehole
A step back in time with Western National at sunny Sennen Cove. Colin Billington's Bristol FLFFlat floor, Long, Front entrance bus of low floor “Lodekka” type, giving passengers one step entrance and flat floor long before present generation of accessible buses (468 FTT) waits at the bus stop while Martin Stevens Bristol LDFirst Bristol Lodekka chassis, enabled full-height double deck bodies to be built with lower overall height (VDV 760) pulls in behind on the Penzance Running DayEach year in April CBPG holds an Annual Running Day with free bus trips around West Cornwall - check our Events for more information. (picture by Angela O'Connor)
An impressive line up of most of the vehicles taking part in the Penzance Running DayEach year in April CBPG holds an Annual Running Day with free bus trips around West Cornwall - check our Events for more information and they are all Bristol's. (picture by Angela O'Connor)
What a magnificent sight as Colin Billington brings his former Western National Bristol FLFFlat floor, Long, Front entrance bus of low floor “Lodekka” type, giving passengers one step entrance and flat floor long before present generation of accessible buses (468 FTT) up the steep climb from Sennen Cove on a very sunny Penzance Running DayEach year in April CBPG holds an Annual Running Day with free bus trips around West Cornwall - check our Events for more information. This day marked the first return to Cornwall for this bus since being retired in the 1980's. When new, it started work in 1960 based at Camborne depotUnion Street - First Devon & Cornwall Cornwall operations office - engineering workshops. (picture by Angela O'Connor)
Mel Williams proudly driving our Bristol LHBristol Commercial Vehicles Light Horizontal engined single-decker bus chassis LH at 30' (9.1m); nearly 2,000 were built between 1967 and 1982 (MUO 328FBristol LH 6L with 45 seat ECW bodywork was one of 10 new medium sized buses delivered to Western National in the summer of 1968 MUO 328F | Bristol LH | Fleet No. 716 | CBPG) out of Marizion on his way to Perranuthnoe during the Penzance Running DayEach year in April CBPG holds an Annual Running Day with free bus trips around West Cornwall - check our Events for more information. (picture by Angela O'Connor)
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