First York - 7th May 2006

Ebor Buses

1st December 2001 to 12th May 2006

The last day of ordinary bus operation on route 4 - Sunday 7th May 2006 - was gloomy and wet. The next day, FTR launched in a blaze of publicity and sunlight. Let us take a brief look at the last throes of the old order down Heslington Road.

30961 climbing Heslington Road, 7th May 2006	30961 negotiating Heslington Road, 7th May 2006	30961 setting down in Heslington Road on its way to the university, 7th May 2006	30964 framed by Heslington Road, 7th May 2006
60883 heading into Fawcett Street, 7th May 2006	60883 passing the Barbican on the evening of 7th May 2006 - my last photograph of a B7L on route 4	60884 heading up Heslington Road, 7th May 2006	60884 passes my house on Heslington Road, 7th May 2006
Action at James Street depot, with a low loader collecting a B6BLE as Streetcars wait, 7th May 2006	Olympians at James Street, 7th May 2006	The end. 30961 passes the Victoria as I capture my last pre-FTR photograph of route 4, 7th May 2006