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SELNEC Preservation Society

@selnecps.bsky.social

Preserving the buses of Greater Manchester since 1987. A small band helping to restore the development of Manchesters own "Standard" buses for future generations. We also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/selnecpreservationsociety

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Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · 6mo ago

Two for the price of one for #SaturdayShowoff this week - two iconic 1960s #Manchester buses. And you can ride on both of them next weekend at our 'Ticket to Ride' event - details on our website www.motgm.uk/events-theme...

Two nineteen sixties buses stand next to each other. On the left is a double decker, number one double oh one, the first Mancunian bus. The single decker on the right is number seventy-four, a Leyland panther cub. They're both in Manchester's red colour scheme.

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · 6mo ago

1/2 We're burning the midnight oil to get ready for our 'Ticket to Ride' event next Saturday and Sunday (28/9 March) and 5208 here is one of the buses we plan to use in service. No halfcabs! Please come by public transport if you can, parking will be almost impossible.

The museum's Gee Emm express bus, fifty-two oh eight, stands on a street in a night scene.

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · 6mo ago

Our 'Ticket to Ride' event this weekend will be brill - and busy. Parking will be hard to find, so please come by public transport if you can. Free heritage bus 5 will bring you from Shudehill (stand H) at 00/30 minutes past the hour, and from Corporation St (stop NU) at 25/55 minutes past the hour.

A poster advertises the ticket to ride event that's happening at the museum of transport on Saturday and Sunday the twenty eighth and twenty ninth of March. The poster includes timetable information for the event, and at the bottom two of the museum's nineteen sixties buses show the kind of thing that'll be on offer from free heritage bus rides.

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · 6mo ago

For #ThrowbackThursday this week we're at Parrs Wood, watching 'Mancunian' bus 2130 waiting to go back up Kingsway. Now, here's a fact: 2130 still exists in preservation AND it'll be at our 'Ticket to Ride' event this weekend - come along and see the real thing... motgm.uk/events-theme...

A black and white photo shows a Greater Manchester Transport bus at Parrs Wood, south of Manchester, on service fifty to Manchester. The fleet number of the bus is twenty-one thirty, and this bus still survives in preservation today.

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · 7mo ago

#Bury 116 didn't want to play last year due to electrical gremlins - thanks to much hard work, an electrical overhaul has now got it working better (and more brightly) than it has done for many years. It'll be giving free rides at our 'Ticket to Ride event on 28/29 March. motgm.uk/events-theme...

An evening photo inside the Museum of Transport shows the front panel and windscreen of Bury 116, one of the museum's collection of classic buses. The headlights and main beam lights are switched on - they're nice and bright. They didn't work previously, and the museum's volunteers have fixed them.

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sometimes, opportunities come that are too good to pass, for reasons not everyone will agree with. Leyland Bus ceased to exist 33 years ago & parts will only become more scarce as time marches on. So we jumped at the chance to purchase SELNEC 7008, after it had fallen on hard times, for spare parts.

Photo shows a rear shot of former SELNEC Park Royal Leyland Atlantean double decker bus, 7008 VNB108L which was converted to open top by East Yorkshire Motor Services in the 1980s. Currently wearing an upper silver, lower maroon livery, the bus has some very good condition parts both bodily and mechanically which will be of tremendous use to the groups operational Atlanteans of a similar vintage.

Photo shows the front nearside of former SELNEC Park Royal Leyland Atlantean double decker bus, 7008 VNB108L which was converted to open top by East Yorkshire Motor Services in the 1980s, on the back of a red, white and blue six legger Scania tow wagon. The bus has some very good condition parts both bodily and mechanically which will be of tremendous use to the groups operational Atlanteans of a similar vintage.

Photo shows the front offside of former SELNEC Park Royal Leyland Atlantean double decker bus, 7008 VNB108L which was converted to open top by East Yorkshire Motor Services in the 1980s, on the back of a red, white and blue six legger Scania tow wagon. The bus has some very good condition parts both bodily and mechanically which will be of tremendous use to the groups operational Atlanteans of a similar vintage.

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Further progress by our painter has seen @motgm.uk Metrobus 5208 finished back to it shiny best!!

Close up shot showing the lower skirt panels and fuel filling point of Northern Counties MCW Metrobus 5208, with the stripes now finished in gloss paint starting with orange, then red and finally brown in fairly equal measure.

The full skirt panels of 5208, the orange, red and brown stripes shining nicely below the pinky/orange base colour.

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester @motgm.uk · 7mo ago

On Sat/Sun 28/29 March, our 'Ticket to Ride' event will feature buses with the engine at the back or under the floor. Rides on heritage buses from the 60s to the 00s. Parking will be difficult: use the free heritage bus from Shudehill Interchange on the hour and half hour. motgm.uk/events-theme...

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Team work makes the dream work! After a slight miss hap, our coach painter has been helping our good friends @motgm.uk get their Express Metrobus 5208 looking its best again. Primer applied to the bare aluminium, then the undercoat...

Picture shows the lower offside of GMBuses Express MCW Metrobus 5208 (a largely pink double decker bus) with the new panels sprayed in grey etch primer parked inside the Museum of Transport, Manchester.

Picture shows the lower offside of GMBuses Express MCW Metrobus 5208 (a largely pink double decker bus) with the new grey etch primer over painted with buff coloured undercoat parked inside the Museum of Transport, Manchester.

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Its cold this morning 🥶 but 6990 is looking resplendant and now finally sporting a correct destination blind thanks to our friends at Blinds by PWC and Peter Watts!

The last Greater Manchester standard Leyland Fleetline 6990 DWH 706W, new to the by then GMPTE owned Lancashire United Transport, now painted in GMBuses livery and with correct Swinton blinds...

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our good friends @motgm.uk have snuck into their calendar an event that is right up our street! Keep your eyes peeled nearer the time for updates and sneaky peaks of the preparations!

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester@motgm.uk · 9mo ago

Happy New Year! As it's 2026, we thought we'd remind you about our programme of this year's events. And the eagle-eyed will spot that we've snuck in an extra, 'A Day with SELNEC' on 24 May when we'll dig out orange buses and welcome a restoration premiere courtesy of some lovely friends... 😉

This is the front cover of the Museum's leaflet publicising its 2026 events. It shows the times of the Shude Hill free heritage bus services on the left, and the leaflet front cover is on the right showing ones of the museum's buses.

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As part of the refresh of EX1 we have had its original number blinds remade. These are of the Mancunian style with sharp angles used by MCTD. The later curved numerals and blinds would come later. These (along with a replica via blind) have been expertly made by Blinds by PWC and Peter Watts.

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Manchesters first prototype Standard vehicle, EX1 PNF 941J (a Leyland Atlantean whose chassis was a legecy order of Ashton Corporation) has been in slumber for quite afew years. Now awoken once more, it will be a feature on the rally circuit next year. But not before a well deserved repaint!

A photo of SELNEC PTEs first prototype Standard, Leyland Atlantean Northern Counties EX1 PNF 941J in sunglow orange and mancunian white. Blinds partly removed for renewal to correct spec. Also has had new tyres and rims fitted.

A rear offside shot of SELNEC PTEs first prototype Standard, Leyland Atlantean Northern Counties EX1 PNF 941J in sunglow orange and mancunian white. Blinds partly removed for renewal to correct spec. Also has had new tyres and rims fitted.

SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hello Bluesky!! We are now here from the other place. Keep your eye out for posts, likes, rally photos and hopefully restoration updates! We aren't a new post every day sort of group but we will be abit more active.