30 November 2024
S12, H612RAH arrives home
After months of planning, we are very proud to announce H612RAH has arrived back at HQ!
Here you can keep up to date with all the happenings at The Eastern Counties Bus Preservation Group.
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After months of planning, we are very proud to announce H612RAH has arrived back at HQ!
• Bronze Membership £1 per week
This enables you to support The Group included you will receive half yearly newsletters and keep up to date with the latest happenings at The Group.
• Silver Membership £2 per week All the above plus free travel to events The Group attends with no additional contribution towards fuel costs.
Also, invitations to come and work on our vehicles at our base near Barton Mills in Suffolk. The Silver plan will also enable you FREE entry to The BIG Bus Show in August each year!
• Gold Membership £3 per weekAll the above plus the opportunity to drive our vehicles (upon an initial driver assessment, license checks plus insurance clearances). There will also be the chance to potentially to take vehicles to rallies too!
N619GAH made the 200 mile journey home in Early August from DS Coachworks in Sheffield. After a mammoth 3 year body overall we are happy to report it has been fully out shopped nearly like the day it arrived from Frank Guy Chesterfield!
S664SNG in early August made a 40 miles journey east to start to preparing it for MOT.
It was anticipated it would make a debut at The BIG Bus Show 2024, but due to technical issues this didn't happen.
On going work will continue into late 2024/2025 to prepare and full service 705.
Next Friday (23 August 2024) we will be operating our 'FREE' Bus Service to the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway.
Buses depart at 1830/1930 from Stowmarket, 1840/1940 from Stowupland and return at 2145.
✅ 1500 + visitors
✅ 110+ vehicles on site
✅ 24 traders
✅ Model displays
✅ Top Field Light Railway
✅ Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
✅ Ipswich & District RC Truckers
One Day, One BIG Bus Show!
Provisional 2025 date,
Sunday 10 August 2025!
Save the date to join us at The East of England’s largest display of Vintage to Modern Buses and Coaches. 🚌
Find out more soon! www.thebigbusshow.co.uk
The BIG Bus Show lands in early August, with a total of 85+ entries plus trade stands and model displays!
Find out: www.thebigbusshow.co.uk
During the winter of 2023/24 we signed up to The National Association of Road Transport Museums "NATRM".
Despite the hectic winter we have managed to resurrected P330RVG!
We would like to welcome the latest arrival of H159SKU which has arrived from Wythall Bus Museum.
Don't worry we don't intend to restore this one! But it has supplied several parts ahead of a special project arriving in the second quarter of 2024!
During the last two weekends in February we have under taken the task of moving to a new site near Thetford Forest in Suffolk.
The sites precise location isn't to be disclosed publicly but as you can see this is a big step up from our old sites in the neighbouring county of Cambridgeshire.
We would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and Happy New Year.
We are sure 2024 will be our biggest year to date and we look forward to sharing that journey with you all!
We are raising money for The Eastern Counties Bus Preservation Group to help recover H612RAH back to England and your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate a lot or a little. Anything helps. Thank you for your support.
Find out more - HERE -
Enter your vehicle, trade stand or model display today - HERE -
You can now purchase advance tickets for the 2024 show at Stonham Barns!
We have now joined Instagram, another way to keep up to date on the happenings here at The Eastern Counties Bus Preservation Group:
www.instagram.com/eastern_counties_bus
📣Announcement 📣
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📣 NEW 📣 Free Entry to The Big Bus Show 2024 at Stonham Barns on Sunday 11 August 2024!
YES that is right FREE entry to The BIG Bus Show 2024!
Find out more by looking at our
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New for 2024 is a brand new partnership between us & The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway to offer free services to Brockford Station on selective dates from Stowmarket Railway Station including Friday Nights at The Middy Bar!
We will also be providing a free service this November for Bygones Fair & Exhibition on Sunday 26 November!
To find out more about their events visit:
www.mslr.org.uk
We are very proud to announce that we will continuing to run The BIG Bus Show after the sucess of the 2023 show.
Stonham Barns will still be the location but it will be solely managed us going forwards.
We will look forward to welcoming you in August 2024!
Sunday 11 August, Stonham Barns www.thebigbusshow.co.uk
During October we have now created a new YouTube channel and a TikTok page.
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Click here for Tiktok
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The Eastern Counties Bus Preservation Group
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