The Vehicle Fleet

One of the services offered at Ledbury Railway Station is a ticket delivery service. This serves both local firms and those unable to come to the station to book their long distance rail journeys in advance. Ticket deliveries utilise the two character, green and black vehicles that comprise the Ledbury Railway Station vehicle fleet.

Horace the Morris is a 1954 Morris Commercial J-Type Van acquired in 1982 from a local strawberry farm as an MOT failure. Restoration was a struggle. The plan was a rolling rebuild which worked very well to begin with and included trips to Cornwall, Somerset and London. This took us to 1987 as the front end was steadily rebuilt. Serious rear end and lower side panel corosion then had to be tackled. Sadly the scale of this had Horace off the road for four years. At one time he could easily have not made it back again. However the hard work eventually paid off and, in May 1991, we were mobile again. Since then we have never looked back. Now sporting the full Ledbury Railway Station livery and, from 1996, a face on the spare radiator grill, Horace the Morris it is definitely a vehicle in which one gets noticed.

Connie is a 1969 Morris Minor. She was bought in 1983. I like Morris 1000s; I owned one as a student in Aberystwyth and had had 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 half an eye towards a convertible converting kit. She therefore acquired the rather contorted name of Connie the Vertable. Time, needless to say rolled on, as did corosion. 1996 was the 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; a fitting addition to the Ledbury Station vehicle fleet.

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