Irish Transport Trust Bus & Coach Show 2011

This year we attended with three vehicles at the Irish Transport Trust's annual bus & coach show, held on the grounds of the Ulster Folk & Transport museum in Holywood, Belfast.

This year we attended with one preserved vehicle, Mark Byrnes Ulsterbus B10M engined Alexander N-type 1320, and two in-service vehicles running with Coastal Coaches and Donohoe Coaches who sponsored our attendance at the event.

92-OY-1883 is a Volvo B10M engined Plaxton Premier 320, new to Scotish Citylink and now operating with Donohoe Coaches. 96-W-1542 is a Mercedes 0611D Eurobodied minibus, new to O'Hara tours now operating with Coastal Coaches.

We wish to express our thanks to Pat Moss of Ulsterbus who allowed us to overnight our vehicles in Belfast, the organisers of the event, the Irish Transport Trust. It was an outstanding show, and we're looking forward to next year.

We departed base on Friday evening after a rendez-vous in the yard to give the vehicles a wash and make preparations prior to making our way up to Belfast..

We overnighted the vehicles at Ulsterbus' Milewater Road depot on Friday night, with thanks to Pat Moss, before departing to the event at 9:30am.

Upon arrival at the event 92-OY-1883 and 96-W-1542 were placed in the Independant section of the rally, whilst 1320 was parked in the Ulsterbus display.

Old meets new. 1320, an "N-type" Tiger is parked beside Kells Transport Museum's 1400 "Q-type" Tiger, both vehicles are identical underneath, with the Q-type being the successor to the N-type.

Wright Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B9TL destined for the streets of London

RM2154, was one of 2876 Routemasters built between 1956 & 1968.

Carolan Coaches, Nobber displayed their excellently turned out 1986 Van-Hool bodied Tiger, which won the Plaxton Trophy for the second consecutive year

Ulsterbus Tours', Scania Irizar PB. Interestingly ROI 126 once adorned the identity of one of Ulsterbus' iconic Alexander bodied Leyland Leopard's

Preserved Leyland Tiger P220 and ex-NIT A8560 Leyland PS1

Part of the Ulsterbus display

Former Dublin Bus RV468, now working as a mobile exhibition unit was used by ITT officials as a mobile office through-out the day. Interestingly RV468 a former Clontaft bus was the last bus in the Dublin Bus fleet to wear the Cityswift livery