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Former Baldrick and star of Time Team Tony Robinson follows the Wainwright Coast to Coast Walk from the West Coast of Northern England to the East.

Episode 1.03 Tony visits Cumbria Classic Coaches, and there is much of interest to see. CHG541, Burnley Colne and Nelson 41, a Leyland Titan PS2/14 with East Lancs body, new in 1954. JTB749 (a 1948 AEC Regal III/Burlingham new to Florence Motors, Morecambe.) and CRN80 (a 1946 Leyland Titan PS1/East Lancs new as Preston Corporation 75) UTC672 (a 1955 AEC Regent III/East Lancs new as Bamber Bridge Motor Services 4) is also seen as it was in service: LFM302 (a 1950 Leyland Tiger PS1/1 with Weymann body new as Crosville KA226) and MTJ84,a Guy Arab III/Roe new in 1951 to Lancashire United fleet number 440. MTJ84 is also seen in an old photograph: There is also a photograph of CHG541 as it was in service, then as it leaves the yard, we see 627HFM, a Bristol Lodekka LD6B/Eastern Coachworks new in 1959 to Crosville as DLB978: One more, a much newer vehicle, H728DDL, an all-Leyland Olympian new to Solent Blueline in 1991 as 728:

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