British Buses
Vintage colour photos of British buses and coaches from the 1950s to the 1990s, documenting an essential part of everyday transport and travel across post-war Britain. Taken on colour film, these images capture buses and coaches operating in towns, cities, seaside resorts, and rural areas during a period of major change in public transport.
This collection includes views of double-deck and single-deck buses, long-distance coaches, depots, stations, streetscapes, passengers, and surrounding urban and rural settings. From municipal bus fleets to private coach operators, the photographs preserve a detailed visual record of vehicle design, liveries, routes, and daily operation before deregulation, privatisation, and later modernisation reshaped Britain’s bus and coach networks.
All images are available as high-resolution, royalty-free digital downloads suitable for editorial, commercial, or personal use.
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Pencester Road, Dover, Kent 1956
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Piccadilly Circus, London 1973
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Piccadilly Circus, London 1974
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Piccadilly Circus, London 1974
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Pier Head bus station, Liverpool 1980
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Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, Norfolk 1950s
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Princes Street, Edinburgh 1966
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Princes Street, Edinburgh 1967
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Princes Street, Edinburgh 1973
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Railair coach, Staines railway station 1982
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Regent Street, London 1978
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Regent Street, London 1987
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Regina Coaches, Blaenau Ffestiniog 1960s
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Riding on a Coach 1964
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Routemaster bus in London 1979
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Routemaster bus in London 1985
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Routemaster WLT 855 seen in 1981
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Routemaster WLT 855 seen in 1981
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RT Bus at Marble Arch, London 1963
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RT Bus FXT 288 seen in 1981
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RT Bus KYY 529 seen in 1981
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Selfridges, Oxford Street 1966
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Skyway Hotel, Heathrow Airport 1973
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SMT coach in the Trossachs 1958
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Southampton Row, London c1954
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Southdown Bus at Castle Hotel, Glen Devon 1958
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St Andrew Square bus station, Edinburgh 1973
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St Leonard’s Place, York 1977
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Stable Yard, Clarence House, London 1968
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Tarvin Road, Chester 1969
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Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport 1973
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Tesco bus, Pavilion Buildings, Brighton 1974
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The Chudbus (AEC Regal), England 1958
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The Old Vic, The Cut, South Bank 1968
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The Strand, London 1950s
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Thurloe Square, London 1970
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Tower Bridge, London 1973
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Trafalgar Square, London 1987
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Trafalgar Square, London 1990
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Trafalgar Square, London 1990
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Trafalgar Square, London 1990
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Trathens DAF Supreme coach seen in 1985
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Union Street, Aberdeen 1962
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Union Street, Glasgow 1962
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W Alexander buses in Scotland 1965
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Wallace Arnold coach in 1986
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Whitehall, London 1977
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World Wide Coaches Mercedes-Benz 1972
