The Vehicle Fleet

In the earlier days, when the Ledbury Railway Station Ticket Office operated under a Travel Agency Agreement, a ticket delivery service existed, serving both local firms and those unable to come up to the station to book rail journeys in advance. These ticket deliveries were then made by one of the two character green and black vehicles of the vehicle fleet.

Horace the Morris is a 1954 Morris Commercial J-Type Van acquired in 1982 as an MOT failure from a local strawberry farm . Restoration was a struggle. The plan was a rolling rebuild which worked well initially and included trips to Cornwall, Somerset and London. Serious side panel corosion then had to be tackled. Sadly the scale of this put Horace off the road for four years. At one time he could easily never have made it back again. However the hard work eventually paid off and, in May 1991, we were mobile again. Since that date we have never looked back. Sporting the full green and black Ledbury Railway Station livery and, from 1996, with a face on the spare radiator grill, Horace the Morris is, without question, a vehicle in which one gets noticed!

Connie is a 1969 Morris Minor, purchased in 1983. I have always liked Morris 1000's; I owned one as a student in Aberystwyth and another in my early wage earning days. You can work on them without enormous technical skill and, complete with starting handle, they rarely let you down. Connie was bought with an eye towards conversion to a convertible and thereby acquired the rather contorted name of Connie the Vertable. Time, needless to say rolled on, as did corosion. 1996 was a make or break year. The scrapyard or an enormous amount of work once again loomed. The plunge was taken, the kit purchased, the top cut off and a blue, rusty, Morris Minor became a stylish, two tone, Ledbury Station liveried, convertible.

Horace heads North - Ledbury Station on Tour
Horace heads South - Ledbury Station on Tour

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