Sunday October 23rd, 2011

This day sees the first event at the new London Bus Museum at Cobham Hall, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey. Billed as “The very best of London Buses – a unique display”, the event will feature line-ups of the very best and most authentically presented examples of the major London bus types from the horse-buses onwards.

Buses from private collections will also be on display and we are pleased to announce that Mike Sutcliffe will be showing his superbly restored Leyland X type and his Leyland ‘Chocolate Express’ early 1900s buses.

London Transport Museum has also agreed to bring along vehicles from their own collection.

Malcolm Skevington will also be at the event with his Leyland Cub, CR 16, a very unusual rear-engine single deck bus, of a type not usually seen at transport rallies.

In addition to these very special displays, there will be a network of bus services operated by historic buses and based on those routes operated by London Transport in the Weybridge/Addlestone area in the 1950s and 1960s (click here for timetable and route details). The new London Bus Museum will be open, featuring the historic time-line of London buses and there will be a collectors’ market inside the building. The Museum shop will have a special limited-edition RF model on sale to commemorate this year’s 60th anniversary of the class.

Admission is £10 and includes all the Brooklands Museum attractions as well (except Concorde for which there is an extra charge). There are concessions for senior citizens & students, children and families. Entry is free for card-carrying LBPT and Brooklands Museum members, plus a £2 discount will be offered to card-carrying members of the London Omnibus Traction Society and Friends of London Transport Museum.

For those coming by public transport, the nearest station is Weybridge from where a regular free bus service will operate to the Museum gate. If coming by car, the post-code for satnavs is KT13 0SL. Leave the M25 at junction 10 (A3 northbound) and follow the brown signs from the Painshill junction (A245) off the A3 to Mercedes Benz World & Brooklands Museum.

Car-parking at Brooklands is included in the admission price, but will be situated in the area called the Heights, situated in Brooklands Road, so please follow the special event parking signs.

A full range of refreshments will also be available in Brooklands own Sunbeam Cafe.

Event Feeder Services.