| The weekend of October 31st/November 1st saw the "SELNEC 40" event in Manchester to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation of the SELNEC PTE (SELNEC stands for "South East Lancashire, North East Cheshire).
This organisation was created from the eleven municipal bus companies, which represented the areas that later became known as "Greater Manchester" in the 1974 local government reorganisation, and at that time SELNEC then became the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, which continued to oversee the area's bus services until 1986, when the government's Transport Bill ordered the deregulation of the services. The weekend's event took place at two locations, the Museum of Transport at Boyle Street in Manchester, and one of the large car parks at Sportcity, near to the City of Manchester Stadium. It was run jointly by the museum and the SELNEC Preservation Society, and featured a large number of their buses, many of which were painted in the distinctive orange and white livery that was once such a familiar sight around this area. It was easy to see why they had needed the extra venue, with so many buses on display they would never have got them all into Boyle Street! The two sites were linked by a free heritage shuttle bus service, and there was also the usual heritage shuttle to Manchester Victoria Railway Station as well (very handy for me, since I was arriving by train). Having been at a steam railway event at the nearby ELR on Saturday, Sunday was the only day I could attend, and weatherwise I certainly picked the worst day of the two - it was blowing a Gale and there were a number of very heavy showers too. Thankfully there were enough clear spells in between to allow me to photograph most of the buses that were on display, that was when I wasn't too busy chasing my hat around the car park that is, I'll have to superglue it on next time I think! 
All in all and excellent display and very enjoyable, not only to see and photograph these buses, but also to ride on a number of them as well, so a big well done to all the volunteers and bus owners for making it all possible. I just hope I'm still around for the 50th if they decide to hold one. My thanks to all involved, it was an excellent event. |
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