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.
Barrow’s 60-year-old Hindpool Road bus depot could soon be replaced by a brand new state-of-the-art garage, reported The Mail in March 1994. Cumberland Motor Services was making plans to move its 58-vehicle maintenance and repair operation to the Project Furness site. The Hindpool Road depot had been developed by the former Barrow Corporation Transport department in the 1930s and occupied a prime town centre site. CMS operations manager Steve Barber said: “The building is years old and the engineering facilities are more suited to 1930s vehicles than those of the 90s.” Managing director Paul Southgate added: “The company has for some time been seeking to improve facilities in the Barrow area.