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ELSEYS OF GOSBERTON Operating from Quadring Fen to Spalding
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In
the Lincolnshire district of South Holland, based in the
village of Gosberton
between Spalding and Donington, the
service shown in the undated but pre-decimalisation timetable (and thus
pre-dating 1971) has a generous level of service seven days a week on
their bus route
through the lanes from Quadring Fen, Gosberton Clough and West
Pinchbeck to the market town of Spalding. Elseys had first come
into the bus business in 1958 with the purchase of the one vehicle firm
and routes of H Paling of Gosberton Risegate. But the origins of
the
Elseys business were from 1949 when a previous partnership with
Leverton
was dissolved with the former concentrating on bus work and the latter
on coaching. Another operator (Nightingale of Pode Hole,
Spalding, trading as Reliance) also ran alongside Elseys on the
Quadring Fen route. Reliance was acquired in 1960 along with two
of their vehicles. Elseys took over the business of Campling (Holme Delight) of Donington in 1977, their bus route having passed earlier in 1970 to Kimes of Folkingham. Another
recently viewed timetable
leaflet
from Aubrey and Win Elsey of Gosberton, dating from 1980,
shows
timetables for the Spalding - Bourne, Spalding - Quadring Fen, Wigtoft
- Spalding routes, as well as a Spalding town service. In
later years following express service deregulation Elseys operated a
daily coach service between Gosberton, Swineshead, Boston, Spalding and
London. It had previously been operated as an excusion to London
from Spalding, and is known to have been running as such regularly on
Thursdays and Saturdays by 1977.
The London express route continued until withdrawal at the end of
summer 2007,
although the Elsey business had been owned by TransLinc, a
major
operator in the county, since 2001. TransLinc was subsequently acquired by May Gurney. In 1989 Elsey's were are also
running route 59
from Spalding via Gosberton and Kirton to Boston, coupled with two Boston town services (see
below). Part of the London express journeys are incorporated into
the bus service timetable. The 59 was originally a Lincolnshire Road
Car route and is now operated by Brylaine
Travel as service 113 Spilsby
- Boston - Spalding (although for a while it was operated as Brylaine's
5 from Lincoln to Boston and on to Spalding). Kimes also cover
the part of the route between Boston and Kirton.
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with many thanks to John Brogden for the loan of the timetable, and incorporating information from articles and publications by Roy Marshall and David Kaye found in the libraries of Lincolnshire
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