BRISTOL RELH/ECW A website about the original ECW body on the Bristol RELH chassis.

Bristol RE YHK 727 F

YHK727F was delivered as Eastern National's 410 during Apr 1968.

It had 47 coach seats in it's Eastern Coachworks body, number 17042.
When built it was fitted with a 2 piece bus (raised) destination panel and a coach type door. (Illustrations)
Its chassis (number RELH-4-127) was powered by a Gardner engine.

This vehicle no longer exists, it was last recorded in Sep 1982.

Photographs

All links to photos shown below are to other Internet sites, all photos will be the copyright of their respective owners.
Where no copyright details are shown the photo is known to exist, but is not freely available.
There may be other photos on the Internet that I cannot show the links for. See 'Useful sites for finding pictures' on the links page.
For pictures in books click on the copyright link for more information.
** = Black and white photo, otherwise colour.

Livery	Owner	Date	Location	Photo copyright	Photo link
NBC Express	Eastern National 410	3 Jul 1973	Prittlewell	Mike Street	Click Here
NBC Express	National Travel South East			Ian Trotter	Click Here
NBC Express	National Travel South East	31 Jul 1975	Chartwell	Steve Thoroughgood	Click Here

Diary for YHK727F

Date	Event	Owner	Number	Allocation	Details	Livery
Apr 1968	Built for:	Eastern National	410			Eastern National Cream/Green coach
May 1974	Sold to:	National Travel South East	ISBN 1 8704 8400 2		The Bristol RE - A Family Profile
Aug 1978	Sold to:	Lincolnshire	1428
Dec 1979				Grimsby
By Dec 1980	Sold to:
By Sep 1982	Withdrawn by:	Lincolnshire

Owners shown above in Green are preservationists, Red are dealers, Blue for PSV use and brown for None-PSV.

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