DSCF4898 Britannia Coaches BU53 ZXB in Letchworth - 22 Sep 2018

Saturday 22 September 2018 (1444) – Britannia Coaches of Hitchin BU53 ZXB, a Setra S315 GT HD new in January 2004 to Skills of Nottingham, seen at the Sollershott Roundabout on Broadway, Letchworth. Up ahead is Richmond’s Coaches of Barley 403 NMM, a Van Hool TX27 Astromega new in June 2015 with that registration. I believe they may have both been working a rail replacement service.

Note the sign on the roundabout itself which declares Sollershott’s claim to fame as the ‘UK’s First Roundabout Built circa 1909’.

Letchworth, full title Letchworth Garden City, the world’s first Garden City established in 1903 inspired town planning across the globe. Created as a solution to the squalor and poverty of urban life in Britain in the late 19th Century based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard as published in his book of 1898 ‘Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform’.