BRISTOL BUSES - BRISLINGTON BUS DEPOT REMEMBERED 

BRISLINGTON BUS DEPOT WAS ORIGINALLY OPENED BY BRISTOL TRAMWAYS AS A TRAM DEPOT IN 1899. SOME OF THE FIRST BRISTOL BUILT BUSES WERE BUILT AT THE DEPOT. THE TRAMS WERE REPLACED BY BUSES IN 1937 AND THE DEPOT BECAME BUSES ONLY. IT CLOSED IN THE EARLY 1970s AND THEN BECAME THE PRINCIPLE TRANSPORT DEPOT FOR THE NEW COUNTY OF AVON. IT SEEMS TO BE THE LEAST PHOTOGRAPHED BRISTOL OMNIBUS DEPOT IN BRISTOL AND PICTURES OF BUSES AT THE DEPOT ARE HARD TO FIND. THANKS TO BOB TARLING FOR THE PICTURE OF THE BRISTOL RE ON ROUTE 36 AT BARTON HILL AND DAVE STEPHENSON FOR THE PICTURES OF THE COUNTY OF AVON MOBILE LIBRARIES.