Image 2 Winchester September 1984 RAY WARD (Large)
For our first image, we head to the city of Winchester, where the bus station was rebuilt in 2017, the date at which the modern-era shots were taken. The bus depot, located just behind the vehicle in the earlier shot from 1984, was demolished and the flow has been changed, meaning that buses now enter and leave from the opposite ends, passing through in the opposite direction. Seen in 1984 is a Hampshire Bus vehicle, an early Duple Dominant, on service X34 which ran from Oxford via Newbury and Winchester to Southampton. Ray recalls that three different operators ran the route.
Meanwhile, in 2017, Ray’s camera was focused on the then still relatively new Enviro200 single-deckers in the attractive King’s City livery adopted by Stagecoach for local services in Winchester. RAY WARD
