The award-winning bus company Readingbuses hold an ‘Open Day’ each year at their modern bus depot facility in Gt Knollys Street in Reading. This ever-popular summer event certainly brings in the crowds, whether it is the general public or the bus enthusiast.  Engaging the potential and regular passengers, showing them what goes on behind the scenes of their local, friendly bus company.  That being so, the independent transport videos cameras went along to record the festivities at the 2022 and 2025 open days, as we did in 2017 and 2018 - the DVD is still available if you haven't seen it yet! The day runs to a well-organised formula.  There are displays of each type of bus from the current Readingbuses fleet, therefore displaying a bus from each route, open for the public to inspect and to have the opportunity to sit in the driver’s seat!  This is a colourful display as each bus route in Reading is identified by a different colour, name and brand.  The older order is not forgotten, with former Reading Corporation and Reading Transport buses in attendance at both events.  During the 2022 event our cameraman took time out and visited the town centre and filmed the contemporary bus scene in Friar Street, Forbury Road and Blagrave Street before returning to the bus depot on board Readingbuses 757 (YX64 VRT) a 2014 built ADL Enviro400MMC double-decker. At the end of the day there is the usual impressive cavalcade of all of the display buses making a brief tour of the town centre before returning to the Gt Knolleys Street depot, which is captured by our cameras.  In 2023 our cameras returned to Reading to film the buses in service showing typical weekday operations.  On a warm sunny day our filming locations include Forbury Road, Blagrave Street, Friar Street, Station Road, Oxford Road, West Street, St Mary’s Butts, The Forbury and Market Place.  Plenty of action to see of Readingbuses in action alongside their subsidiary Thames Valley Buses, Firstbus ‘Railair’ service coaches, Arriva buses operating through to High Wycombe – which has now passed into history and Thames Travel buses on routes to Oxford and beyond.
   
In 2025 our cameras returned to Gt Knollys Street to attend the ‘Open Day’.  Again it was the usual excellent format, but as the fleet updates some vehicles have changed in the colourful line up in the depot yard.  After reviewing the displays our cameraman travels to the town centre to film the contemporary scene.  We travel on board Readingbuses 261 (RG74BUS), a 2024 ADL Enviro400 City double-decker that is operating this years ‘Shuttle Service’.  Once in town we film in Station Road and Forbury Road before our return to the bus depot.  At the depot we take a tour of the control room and the workshop to see the buses in for maintenance and repair. As usual at the end of the day the buses head off for the Cavalcade and are filmed along Gt Knolleys Street and along Caversham Road.  Both the current Readingbuses fleet and preserved Reading Corporation buses are seen alongside visitors from the original Thames Valley fleet and even a former Brighton Hove and District Bristol Lodekka open topper to name but a few!