Thursday, March 17, 1972, was an important day for bus driver Barry Taylor of Cleator Moor, as he drove the very first Leyland National ‘super bus’ out of Workington Bus Station on its inaugural journey to Whitehaven via Lowca.
New Beacon Museum exhibition celebrates 100 years of bus and coach services in Cumbria
A Workington built Leyland National out the garage opposite Whitehaven bus station.
The Beacon Museum is celebrating a century of bus and coach services in Cumbria with a new exhibition.
The Whitehaven museum is working with Workington Transport Heritage Trust to present “CMS100” to celebrate the work of Cumberland Motor Services (CMS) and its current owner Stagecoach.
The exhibition in The Portal annexe gives a flavour of how the company expanded from the original Whitehaven Motor Services to serve the west and north of the old county of Cumberland.