LOCAL BUS REALTED LINKS - Enthusiasts and Operators in the North West and Merseyside.

The unnoficial Arriva Merseyside site is a great site, listing service information for Merseyside and having a news section.

Halton Transport have a thorough website, listing all of their services.

Preserved Widnes Corporation buses are the main offering of Paul Holmes website but there is also links to information about Widnes and Halton.

The North West Cheshire Bus Page by Ian Simpson has some interesting articles, current news and the Merseyside Bus Club

Merseyside Dennis Dart website has fleetlists for operator's darts (including Arriva NW and Halton Transport) as well as a detailed news section and Merseyside Dart facts.

Merseyside PTE site for MPTE history, fleetlists, and even an engine sounds page!

The North West Volvo B6 Home Page Tim Moss's site devoted to the Volvo B6 in the North West including news, photos, fleetlists and tech spec.

Happy Al's Coaches website has some good details on their fleet and an online quote request form.

Quackduck groups of sites with Leyland Leopards and milk float corner. Well worth a visit.

Gilmoss depot An unnoficial site looking at the ex-MTL depot that Arriva was forced to sell.

Merseyside Transport Trust's website has just been taken over by Mike Price, and is under improvement. Please note the new address http://www.merseysidetransporttrust.fsnet.co.uk.

Crosville in Cheshire - Garry Brookes photos of Crosville buses in and around Cheshire.

Ex Crosville employees site - Robert Haughton's site devoted to Crosville memories and ex-employees keeping in touch.

Mad Annie's Miscellany Caroline Matthews page with photos from Warrington and further afield as well including East Lancashire and Edinburgh.

Merseytravel The official website of the Merseyside PTE is now online, including full timetable details.

Chris Goodwin's site for Wales and West Cheshire MBF.

JOURNEY PLANNERS AND OTHER UK ENTHUSIAISTS AND OPERATORS SITES

UK pti website of UK public transport information

Station Master Journey Planner for on line bus journey details; mostly Northern England and the Midlands represented.

www.busweb.co.uk Lots of links, news and a personal announcement service for seeking help.

Keith Till's bus pictures - a wide selection of excellent pictures of buses from all over the UK and Ireland. On 'overspill' site of preserved, rallies and scrapyard shots can be found by clicking here.

Jeffs Bus Lane has news, pictures, enthusiast guides and vehicle working details for North East England.

British Bus Archives site has operator and manufacturer histories as well as a wanted section and more.

Bus and Coach talk drivers forum and an interesting pictures section.

Londontm excellent London buses website.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Transbus international's website - Plaxton, Dennis and Alexander. This site makes a lot of use of Flash player but has a link to download it.
TRANSBUS INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES WEBSITES
Dennis bus Dennis's website, with detailed specifications for Dart, Javelin and Trident.
Plaxton's website with details of their current range, and news.
Alexander's website is now redirecting to the main Transbus International page (see link above). The Transbus page is certainly very slick but is a bit low on detail compared to the individual offerings - hopefully Dennis and Plaxtons individual pages will remain available!

Bova's website with tech-spec and company figures, results etc. This link takes you straight to the English language pages; http://www.bova.nl/ is the first page if you're interested!

Wrightbus The website of the Northern Ireland body builder.

Scania the manufacturers website, in English.

North East Bus Sales The website of this dealer and breaker, with a great musical background!

East Lancashire Coachbuilders - the website of the North West based bodybuilder.

NON-BUS RELATED LINKS some of my other favourites and friends sites.

Tom Wood's website - some great scenic photos from Norway and places more local (and some embarrasing ones of me!).

Chester Zoo - I like working on the groundstaff here far more than is good for me.

MAN diesels the website for Paxman, Ruston and Mirlees-Blackstone, all owned by MAN B&W.

MAN B&W home page for MAN B&W marine and GenSet diesels- including an engine finder (set it to 90-100 000 bhp and marvel!) and technical papers.

Matthew Tyrrell's page on computer building.

Widnes Old and New find out about some of the notable people and events from Widnes's history (there's more than you might realise!).

Halton Forum Internet meeting place for Halton people, with various discussion forums.

Friends of Williamson's Tunnels Find out about the fascinating tunnels dug under Liverpool by a philanthrapist in the early nineteenth century, to provide work for local men.

INTERNET TOOLS common programmes you can download free and web authoring.

Adobe Acrobat Reader used a lot on the MAN pages, this link takes you straight to it (unlike some which have left me lost).

Macromedia Shockwave Flash player is used on many websites now for moving graphics etc.

Webmonkey has a lot of useful information including an html tag sheet which is a useful summary, software reviews, advice etc.