| Date | Speaker and Subject | Time and Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 10 January 2004 |
Evening Meeting, Members 2003 Slides and Competitions | Meeting at Woodside Halls, Glenfarg Street, Glasgow at 1730 |
| Saturday 7 February 2004 |
Afternoon Tour - West Lothian | Departing at 1200 from Waterloo Place Edinburgh Visits to First Edinburgh Livingston Depot, Lothian Buses Longstone Depot and premises of Horsburgh and Prentice at West Calder. Returning to Edinburgh by 1615 |
| Saturday 7 February 2004 |
Evening meeting, Talk by Neil Wood, Managing Director of Scottish Citilink | Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh at 1800 |
| Saturday 6 March 2004 |
Afternoon Tour of Glasgow and Renfrewshire | Departure from Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow at 12 noon. Visits to First Glasgow depots at Scotstoun and Larkfield and Arriva Scotland West depots at Inchinnan and Johnstone. Also stops at Braehead Shopping Centre and Paisley Town Centre. Returning to Glasgow City Centre around 1615 |
| Saturday 6 March 2004 |
Evening Meeting - Slide Show "Scottish Buses of the 1980s" | To be held at Langside Hall, 5 Langside Avenue, Glasgow, starting at 1800. |
| Sunday 4 April 2004 | Central Scotand Tour | Departing at 1100 from from Falkirk Bus Station. Visits to First Edinburgh depots at Larbert and Bannockburn, premises of Billy Davies and Mitchells at Plean, Docherty's at Auchterarder, Mackies at Alloa and Christies at Alloa. Forty minute lunch stop at Stirling Town Centre and short stop at Alloa during the afternoon. Tour will finish around 1730. |
| Saturday/Sunday 8/9 May 2004 | Weekend Tour to Inverness/NE Scotland | Bookings to Ian M Allan, 3 East Port Dunfermline KY12 7JG (01383 724949) not later than 10 April 2004. |
| Saturday 5 June 2004 | Oban and Fort William Tour | Departure from Cowcaddens Road outside Buchanan Bus Station Glasgow at 0900. Visits to West Coast Motors depot at Oban and Rapsons depot at Fort William. Short stop in Inveraray and stops of two hours at Oban and one hour at Fort William. Return to Glasgow by 2030. |
| Saturday 26 June 2004 | Vintage Vehicle Tour | Departure from Dunfermline Bus Station at 1530. Travelling to Crieff via Gleneagles. Stopping for around one hour in Crieff then returning to Dunfermline by 2000 via Perth and Glenfarg. |
| Saurday 31 July 2004 | Carlisle and Dumfries Tour | Departure from Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow at 0900. Visits to Stagecoach depots at Carlisle, Dumfries and Cumnock and the premises of MacEwans of Dumfries. Short stop at Moffat, stop of around one hour in Carlisle City Centre around lunchtime and a stop at Dumfries Town Centre during the afternoon. The tour will return to Glasgow by 1900 |
| Saturday 4 September 2004 | Tayside Tour | Participants should assemble at Dundee Bus Station Seagate by 1130. Thereafter visits are proposed to Strathtay Dundee Depot, Travel Dundee, Meffan Kirriemuir, Strathtay depots at Arbroath, Forfar and Blairgowrie and the Blubird depot at Perth. There will be a stop of approximately forty minutes in Arbroath Town Centre at lunchtime. After the final depot visit in Perth, participants can be dropped off at approximately 1730 in Perth Town Centre or return to Dundee where the tour will finish around 1810. |
| Sunday
3 October 2004 | Ayrshire Tour | Departure will be at 1110 from Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow outside Buchanan Bus Station. Visits are proposed to Marbill at Beith, Shuttle Buses at Kilwinning, Docherty at Irvine, Dodds at Ayr, Keenan at Coalhall, Liddell at Aucinleck and the Stagecoach Western depots at Ayr and Kilmarnock. There will be a stop of approximately thirty minutes at Irvine Town Centre at lunchtime. The tour will finish at around 1830. |
| Saturday 6 November 2004 | Afternoon Tour - Old and New Edinburgh | A Routemaster from the MacTours fleet will depart from Waterloo Place, Edinburgh at 1200 The tour will take in Ocean Terminal, The Gyle,Sighthill busway (under construction) and also the sites of former transport depots. The bus will return to Waterloo Place around 1600 |
| Saturday 6 November 2004 | Evening Meeting - Slide Show - Members' own topics | The Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh at 1800 |
| Saturday 4 December 2004 | Branch Annual General Meeting (members only) | 1400 at Woodside Halls, Glenfarg Street, Glasgow |
| Saturday 4 December 2004 | Illustrated talk by branch member Tom Hamilton on his forty year career in the transport industry. | 1800 at Woodside Halls, Glenfarg Street, Glasgow |
Shaded events have already occurred. Further details will be published, when available. Members will receive details in the bi-monthly Branch Newsletter