Trams

Round the back of Milehouse bus depot you can see evidence of the transport system from way back before modern buses arrived on the scene.

The original tram depot building remains in place. You can just see the tram tracks under the recovery lorry. The tramway to Devonport came out of this entrance and made its way up through Stoke Village.

Looking back through the main shed the tram tracks are still in place. The other relic of the past is one that I never knew still existed and that was the old stable block for the horse drawn trams. It was difficult to get a clear view of the disused building as there are a few minibuses parked in front of it.

Milehouse

Had a birthday treat today when my son Zak and I joined a few others on a guided tour of the Milehouse bus depot of Plymouth Citybus thanks to Brian George. Its late and the bottle of wine downstairs is calling me so just a few photos tonight but I am sure a few more will appear here during the week ahead...

The rain clouds over the coach opened up just before and after this photo was taken!

Thanks Brian for a very interesting tour.

Google Maps and Google Earth

I mentioned a few days ago that Google have updated the views of Plymouth on Google Earth with much clearer hi res images than before. Well they have now migrated through to Google maps too!

So today we have a few images taken from Google Earth which show the two main bus garages in Plymouth...
Milehouse, home of Plymouth Citybus is seen above.

Below we see First Devon and Cornwalls The Ride.


This next image is from just up the road and is the spare parking area that FDC are / were using. It does seem odd that the few buses there are spread out across the site! note the yellow and purple buses to the left of the parking area. I am guessing that these were ex Thamesway Mercedes Varios