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YHY592J is one of a handful of the legendary Bristol RE-type single-deck buses is still fully licensed to carry fare-paying passengers.

New to the Bath Country Services division of the Bristol Omnibus Company in January 1971 as fleet number 1212, it worked from Bath Garage until withdrawn by the privatised “Badgerline” company in 1988. It was then sold to Hastings & District and operated on the South Coast until withdrawn with engine problems in 1990. It was kept by a group of enthusiastic managers and staff and was repaired to enable it to attend many rallies and shows before being finally laid up with more engine problems around 1998.

It then disappeared from public view until 2010 when purchased by North Somerset Coaches. Now as part of the “heritage” fleet, she is available to hire for weddings and special events and is used occasionally in normal passenger service.

The bus is we believe one of only three “bus” RE vehicles still licensed for PSV use, the others being with Dreadnought Coaches in Northumbria and locally with our friends at ABUS in Bristol. At the moment, we think YHY is the only one of the three actually used regularly in passenger service!

The 1212 Diary

1^st April - used for staff route-training on service X54

3^rd April – worked morning service 660 (Congresbury – Clevedon) on our last day of operating the route

29^th April – worked 16:55 X54 Bristol - Nailsea

8^th May – used on North Somerset Coaches running day services

16^th May 2010 – attended Bristol Harbourside Rally

13^th June – attended Filton “Bristol 100” Rally

21^st June – worked Backwell School – Nailsea service 2C

July TBA – worked X6 St. Katherines School – Bristol

11^th August – worked 16:25 X54 Bristol - Nailsea

15^th August – attended Brislington Rally and operated service to Bristol City Centre

20^th August – worked 06:55 X54 Nailsea – Bristol, 08:58 601 Backwell – Cribbs Causeway and 14:00 Cribbs Causeway – Backwell

27^th August – worked 09:00 X2 Nailsea – Burnham via Weston, 10:35 X2 Burnham – Weston, 12:10 X2 Weston – Burnham, 13:45 X2 Burnham – Nailsea via Weston.

19^th September – attended Westpoint Bus Rally, Exeter

8^th October – worked 16:35 2A Railway Station – Nailsea and Rail-Link duty to end of day

4^th December – Wells RE Bash – Bristol – Wells – Priddy – Cheddar – Churchill – Bristol with the RE gang…

23^rd December – worked X54 14:22 Bristol – Nailsea, 14:50 Nailsea – Bristol and 16:35 and 17:55 X54 Bristol to Nailsea

24^th December – worked full enhanced daily X54 duty: 07:23, 08:50, 10:50, 12:50, 14:50 Nailsea – Bristol and 12:22, 14:22, 16:35 and 17:55 Bristol – Nailsea

8^th January – Private Hire (wedding) Frome to Bath Guildhall

20^th January – worked X54 07:23 Nailsea to Bristol Commuter Express

Who knows where it may appear next!!

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Updated 20^th January 2011

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