Views Around Bowness-on- Windermere Cumbria UK


2006 A special act of Parliament has been passed to allow a 74 year old steam bus named Martha to ferry passengers between Bowness and Windermere The gleaming red bus ,wich runs on coal, is the UK's first steam-powered scheduled bus service The owners Stuart Harrison 60& his son Chris 28 had to apply for an Act of Parliament to be amended because we weren't allowed to take passengers on a vehicle with an exaust at the front The bus will run four days a week Tes Thurs Sar & Sunday untill the end of October between the Tourist Information Centre on the Glebe to Windermere Steam Boat Museum.


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