Isle of Wight Bus Museum - Farewell to The Quay
The Isle of Wight Bus
Museum was established in 1997 in their home on the Quay in Newport, Isle of
Wight. The Quay has been the venue for
many events put on by the Museum, mostly in the form of the Spring and Autumn
Running Days. The spring event usually
just features preserved buses that have had Isle of Wight connections, the
autumn event caters for all buses including buses and coaches from the
mainland. Easter 2015 became a big event
in the life of the museum as it opened its doors to a completely new museum
situated in the former Southern Vectis bus depot in Ryde. The depot, purposely built for Southern
Vectis in the 1930s is an ideal place to show off the exhibits and to welcome
visiting buses and coaches at the many events planned for the future.
This video programme
is a fitting tribute to the old venue as we take a look at some of the events
that have taken place between 2011 and the final Autumn Running Day in October
2014. Our cameras have made a number of programmes in the past, the first one in
1998, and are still available. However none of the footage on this programme
has been seen before, so sit back and enjoy your journey to the ‘Island’. Our journey does indeed begin on board a
Wilts & Dorset Bristol VR, 4413 (BFX 666T) as we head from the ferry at
Yarmouth to the Quay to attend the 2011 Autumn Running Day where a good deal of
action can be enjoyed. Our next visit is
only brief, this time at the 2012 Running Day to observe a number of Bristol K
and L types ‘on parade’.
In April 2013
our cameras were invited to go out for a ride on board preserved flat screen
Bristol VRT series 2, fleet number 628 (SDL 638J). We visit Godshill and see a number of the
exhibits at the museum being moved around for 628 to be released for the
outing! We now come to the final year of
the museum on the Quay - 2014, starting with the Spring Running Day with plenty
of ‘Island’ buses moving about. This
includes Bristol K5G, 721 (EDL 657) currently being restored, and looking
superb. We take a ride to the Isle of
Wight Steam Railway at Havenstreet on board the rare Duple bodied Bristol RESL,
301 (KDL 885F) and then return to the Quay for more action.
The final section of this programme features
the Autumn Running Day where most of the action is captured on the Quay as the
buses and coaches arrive and depart for services covering most of the
island. This final running day formed
part of the ‘Isle of Wight Beer & Buses Weekend’, which involved CAMRA
(Campaign for Real Ale) and was a complete success. We take a ride out on Bristol FS, 570 (YDL
315) to one of the pubs, and return to the Quay for the final departures of the
weekend. Our future programmes from the
Isle of Wight Bus Museum will be filmed at the new museum location of which is;
The Bus Depot, Park Road, RYDE, Isle of Wight, PO33 2BE. See you there!
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Filmed
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2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014 |
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Duration
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57 minutes (approx). |
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Price
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Within UK - £16 |
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Rest of world -
£18 |
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Format
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DVD -R |
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Picture Aspect 16:9 |
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Order
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D226 |