DTX 785

A bulldozer moves in to shift the fragments left from a London Transport DMS

A pair of London Transport Fleetline DMSs lay broken up alongside the remains of .... well, I thought it was a former Merseyside PTE Leyland Atlantean. But thanks to Mark Youdan who has pointed out that it is more likely to be a former Cleveland Daimler Fleetline. Now - I wonder whether anyone would like to hazard a guess at its identity.

Abandoned Mercedes at the back of a body builder's yard in Northern Cyprus

AC, Abingdon ex Alder Valley 655 (FJB 739C)

Alexander bodywork - or maybe not

AmberLee, Strood NPJ 476R, ex Alder Valley 255

AmberLee, Strood NPJ 476R, ex Alder Valley 255

An unidentified Bristol LH/ECW, partly cannibalised, at Silcox, Pembroke Dock

An unidentified saloon and a Balckburn Atlantean awaiting their fate beside the stilled waters

Bedford/Duple and the fraqme of an MCW Metropolitan

Blackpool 368 (VFR 368)

Blackpool 368 (VFR 368) in its final hours

Blackpool Titan at the Carlton yards

Blackpool Titan PD3 at the Carlton yards

Blackpool Titan's final hours

Brighton & Hove XPM 42, after a sting with Lincolnshire, awaits scrapping with a collection of Routemasters

Bristol 7183 (BHW 675C), 7251 (FHU 509D) and ex Western National BDV 256C

Bristol REs and Plaxton Elites

Cardiff CKG 669, a Bristol K-type converted to a pole carrier for the trolleybus operation

Chassis components

CIE D283 (VZI 283), D 21 (VZI 21) AND D283 (382 IK) were all LeylandAtlantean PDR1/1 with CIE two-door (and decidedly ugly) bodies.

CIE Leylands

Crosville SNG 376 (EMB 367S) in a sorry state

Cumberland 517 (711 GRM)

Devon degenerated

Dozens of Greater Manchester 'deckers await their end

East Yorkshire 570 (MKH 80), 576 (MKH 86) and 572 (MKH 82) had Barnsdale Bar-bodies. They were Leyland Titans pictured at Norths, Sherburn-in-Elmet

East Yorkshire 576 (MKH 86), 572 (MKH 82) and 575 (MKH 85)

East Yorkshire 796 (CKH 796C), a PSU3/1R-Weymann awaits its fate in a Cheshire scrapyard

Eastern Counties HPW 82, HPW 130 and VR/ECW

Eastern Counties Leyland PD1/ECW on the right alongside a Bristol K-type

Eastern Counties Leyland PD1/ECW on the right alongside two K-types from the same source ... and the same orchard - Ben Jordan's at Coltishall

Eastern Counties LKH413

Eastern Counties RE 876 (AAH 124B)

Eastern Counties VR 402 (JAH 402L) with a scrapman attacking the roof

Eastern National 2884 (WNO 972F)

Excelsior, Bournemouth WLJ 571K

FNG 142 and LNG 296

Glasgow Atlantean

Glasgow LA 170 (AGA 109B)after the vandals had wrecked any chance of its preservation. It is seen abandoned in Hednesford.

Greater Glasgow Leyland Atlanteans

Greater Manchester 1172 (ONF 860H)

Greater Manchester 1711

Greater Manchester 2293 (SVR 293K) was a Daimler CRG6LXB/Rose H76D

Greater Manchester 2303 (SVR 303K) was a Daimler CRG6LXB with Roe H76D body. It has clearly made its last journey - to the Barnsley scrapyards.

Greater Manchester 5470 and 2204 at the scrap yard

Grille

Grille of an F-series Lodekka

Hants & Dorset Seddon

Lancashire United YYD 874 in W.North's yard at Sherburn-in-Elmet

Lancashire United YYD 881 in W.North's yard at Sherburn-in-Elmet

Leicester Metro-Scania (?131?) on suspended tow along the M5. Was it on its way to Newport to provide spare parts for that corporation fleet?

Leyland DAF 60/160 laden with the remains of Southern National SN 2 (C922 CYA), a former National Express Rapide Leyland Tiger with Plaxton Paramount 3500 bodywork

London Country AN 106 (MPJ 206L) awaiting the end after working for Big Bus

London Transport DMS

London Transport RTL 400 (LLU 550) at North's scrapyard

London Transport RTW 308 (KXW 431) ready for scrapping

Mercedes Benz minibus abandoned in the weeds of its home island, Corfu

Merseyside PTE Bristol VRT-LH in the early stages of scrap

Merseyside PTE Bristol VRT-LH in the late stages of scrap, with a London MCW Metropolitan in the distance

Merseyside PTE Bristol VRT-LH in the later stages of scrap

Merseyside PTE Bristol VRT-LHs await their fate

Merseyside PTE Bristol VRTs

Midland Red 402 (GOL 402N)

Midland Red 402 after it was gutted by fire awaits the worst the blowtorches can achieve

Midland Red 4475, days before it was buried in a rubbish tip near Bromsgrove.

Midland Red 4475, days before it was buried in a rubbish tip near Bromsgrove.

Midland Red 6123 after vandals set fire to the upper deck. It was converted into an opentopper for Bristol (8605)

Midland Red 6301 (YHA 301J)

Midland Red 6396

Morris, Pencoed Plaxton-bodied coach and a Merseyside PTE Bristol VRT-LH amid the muck of the Carlton yards

National Welsh R11.68 (RAX 11G)

National Welsh R11.68 (RAX 11G), Hants & Dorset 218 (JMR 813F), ex Wilts & Dorset 683, and XPM 48, originally Brighton Hove and District 48.

Newcastle 502 (NTN 502E) and visible in the background, VMP 9G, the former Road Transport Industry Training board Panther/Alexander

Newcastle 502 (NTN 502E), still bearing its Tyne and Wear PTE colours.

Newcastle 505 (UVK 505G), being scrapped at Mid Warwickshire's yard was a Leyland Panther with Alexander bodywork. Alongside is another of the same type, but now unidentifiable.

Newport may have been the original home of this Leyland Atlantean/Alexander decker being scrapped at the Carlton yards

Newton, Dingwall HAS 947N (Ford R1014/Duple) and Accrington 30 (OTF 357K)

Northern General Leyland

Northern General MCN 848L and another of the same type

Northern General UUP 825K and 4419

Nottingham 413 (DAU 413C)

Nottingham 413 (DAU 413C), being scrapped in Gloucestershire

Pilgrim Coaches' 5796 MX, a 1985 Leyland Tiger TRCTL11.3RH/Plaxton Paramount 3500, was once the pride of the fleet. Now it has brambles rapidly invading the entrance, windows are missing and somehow you feel it will never run again.

Rawtenstall 55 (MTB 848) was a Leyland Tiger PS2/1 with East Lancs B35R

Reading 266 and a Strathcylde Atlantean

Red & White Bristol MW

Rotherham BET 354 at the West of England Transport Collection

Routemaster demise

Silcox, Pembroke Dock 734 PDE provided spare parts for other vehicles before it was scrapped.

Southern National SN 2 (C922 CYA) has made its final move

Two Atlantean chassis await crushing

Two ex-London Transport DMS's and a Merseyside PTE Bristol VRT-LH

Two West Midlands Daimler Fleetlines

Typical of the Carlton yards in the 1980s

Unidentified Ford

Unidentified Leyland Atlantean

United BG 420 (LHN 807) at Norths, Sherburn-in-Elmet

United U16 at Norths, Sherburn-in-Elmet

United Welsh, ex Bristol K type

Warrington 67 (JEK 67N) was a Bristol RESL. Its days in this Barnsley scrapyard are clearly numbered.

West Midland - unidentified CRG6LX

West Midland 3725 (KOX 725E)

West Midland 3839 (KOX 839E) and, beyond, 3725 (KOX 725E)