Western National, Southern National and Royal Blue
Welcome
Highly-respected in their day, these fleets of slow-moving buses that once populated the South West peninsula from Hampshire and Gloucestershire to Lands End and the Lizard are now things of the past, present preservationists - and photographic collections.
The group had a number of identities. For the benefit of this collection they are identified as:

CF Cornish Fairways
DG Devon General
Ex Exeter
ND North Devon
RB Royal Blue
SN Southern National
WN Western National

This is only part of my collection. To see more of the 40,000-plus pictures currently on the web look through my "Other Galleries".
Other Galleries
  • 47 years of bus photography
  • 47 years of coach photography
  • SHIPPING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EUROPE
  • Bristol Omnibus and Badgerline
  • Back end of a bus
  • National Express
  • Transport postcards of the 20th Century
  • Crosville
  • Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset
  • Arriva Southern Counties in Kent, Medway and Essex
  • Britain's PTE fleets
  • Cyprus and Malta Buses
  • Scottish buses and coaches
  • NBC in South Wales
  • Medway - the tidal river, communities, places, ships and scenery
  • Midland Red & Carlyle Works
  • THE WORST RAIL PICS EVER
  • Kent bus scene
  • Corporation bus fleets of England
  • London's Buses
  • National Bus Company (NBC) in England
  • Three Counties buses - Gloshire, Worcs and Herefordshire
  • Bus, coach and transport ephemera (stops, stations, logos etc)
  • Corporation bus fleets of South Wales
  • Kings Ferry, Gillingham
  • Road vehicles
  • Planes - even worse collection than my trains
  • Flowers and trees, plants, animals and birds
  • Egyptian Buses and Coaches
  • Egyptian Holiday, 2006
  • Watkins - home and away
  • People and Places
  • Black & White Motorways and National Travel (South West)
  • Oxford Bus, City of Oxford, South Midland and Oxford Espress
  • Continental bus and coach operations
  • Workingarea
  • First Group Buses
  • Stagecoach Across the UK
  • St George's, HMS Pembroke - Royal Navy memorials
  • Bus Gallery
  • Corfu's bus and coach transport, 2008
  • National Express West Midlands
  • Lauren is here
  • Independent bus and coach fleets in Britain
  • Rebodied buses
  • Links
  • First Group buses
  • Greenslades
  • Silver Star, Porton Down
  • Asian Overland/India Overland
  • Asian Greyhound memories
  • PSV Circle
  • Bus Station (search engine)
  • Dorset Country Bus
  • "Tolcarne" (Newquay) depot
  • CONTENT
    There are more than 1,000 buses and coaches from the combined Western National fleets contained in this collection. It is part of a picture record of nearly 40,000 buses and coaches, plus ships, planes and trains, from the Alan O. Watkins Collection that is available for research on the web.
    COPYRIGHT
    All pictures are the copyright of Alan O. Watkins, or are (where stated) from the Alan O. Watkins Collection.
    Most Recent Collections
    96 - *** (Bristol LH buses) (34 images)
    200 - 206 (Leyland Lynx) (6 images)
    262 - 379 (L types) (27 images)
    400 - 435 (Bristol SUL4A coaches) (28 images)
    542 - *** (Bristol VRT) (19 images)
    600 - 612 (Bristol SUS4A) (17 images)
    613 - 696 (Bristol SUL4A buses) (47 images)
    700-714 (Bedford VAM/ECW) (9 images)
    934 - 1238 (Bristol VR) (72 images)
    1200 - 1225 (Rebodied Bristol coaches) (13 images)
    1226 - 1278 (L-types coaches and buses) (6 images)
    1279 - 1299 (Bristol LS coaches) (19 images)
    1300 - *** (Bristol LH coaches) (10 images)
    1320 - 1339 (Bristol LL and LWL coaches) (11 images)
    1340 - 1382 (Bristol LS coaches) (18 images)
    1383 - 1437 (Bristol MW coaches) (41 images)
    1400 - 1421 (Doubledeck coaches) (26 images)
    1450 - *** (Bristol RELH) (19 images)
    1600 - 1655 (LWL buses) (17 images)
    1656 - 1796 (Bristol LS buses) (61 images)
    1785 - 1799 (Bristol MW buses) (4 images)
    1800 - *** (Olympians) (15 images)
    1800 - 1855 (K-types) (13 images)
    1815 - 1817 (Volvo Citybus) (3 images)
    1863 - 1967 (Bristol LD Lodekkas) (59 images)
    1969 - 2114 (Bristol FLF Lodekkas) (91 images)
    2200 - *** (Leyland Tigers) (26 images)
    2200 - 2214 (Bristol LS coaches) (14 images)
    2215 - 2280 (Bristol MW coaches) (40 images)
    2350 - *** (Bristol RELH) (50 images)
    2400 - *** (Leyland Leopard) (13 images)
    2600 - 2625 (Bristol MW buses) (8 images)
    2700 - *** (Bristol RELL) (43 images)
    2800 - *** (Leyland Nationals) (20 images)
    2900 - *** (Leyland PD1A-ECW) (3 images)
    3100 - *** (Bristol LH coaches) (3 images)
    3300 - *** (Bristol LH coaches) (4 images)
    3400 - *** (Bristol LH coaches) (5 images)
    3500 - *** (Leyland Leopards) (51 images)
    3800 - 3806 (ex-Silver Star, Porton Down) (5 images)
    3800 - 3813 (Bristol LS coaches) (3 images)
    Bristol K, KS, KSW (36 images)
    Buses and coaches in the local scenery (8 images)
    DAFs, Hestair-Duple and others (4 images)
    Devon General (52 images)
    Exeter Corporation buses (37 images)
    Grenville, Camborne takeover (2 images)
    Grey Cars (8 images)
    Minibuses (45 images)
    Second hand vehicles (8 images)
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    Most Recent Photo

    703 (KDV 133F) overtakes Plymouth 223 (JJY 223G) in Plymouth
    Recent Changes
    2006-08-03 17:40:44
    27 images added to More buses
    2006-07-26 19:37:10
    1 image added to Exeter Corporation buses
    2006-06-04 18:09:30
    Added new collection Latest (34 images)
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