18 January 2025: Please note: There is currently a problem which affects the display of detailed records, where the tabular display uses a green “plus” button to open a window showing all of the data fields. The green button currently does not function in the Firefox browser, but it works correctly in the Chromium, Edge, Google Chrome and Opera browsers. I have logged a support call with the developer of the data access program, but there is not likely to be a solution in the short term. As such the best advice we can offer (at present) is to use an alternative browser for viewing those detail records. Thank you, Nigel

This site was originally created by Carl Berry, who sadly passed away in 2022. We (Nick Jackson and Nigel Frampton) have created this new version of the site, but the work of collecting and organising the data had already been performed by Carl, to whom we are most grateful. We are also very grateful to Adele Berry for her support and input for this project.

The site contains details about the original Eastern Coachworks (ECW) coach body on Bristol’s RELH chassis.

Built between 1963 and 1970 it was based on a design that ECW had supplied on the Bristol MW chassis for a number of years. After 1970 ECW only supplied its standard ‘bus shape’ body on the RELH until 1972 after which it offered a newer coach body design. Details of other Bristol REs, and other Bristol chassis can be found at Rob Sly’s Bristol Commercial Vehicles Enthusiasts and Gerry Tormey’s Bristol Vehicles websites.

Details of the range of companies, schools, groups and individuals that have owned these coaches will be added to an “Owners” page, and similarly liveries carried will be detailed on a “Liveries” page.

Models of these coaches have been produced by EFE ( in 1:76 scale ) and Graham Farish ( 1:160 US N scale ) and details can be found on the Model Bus Zone website.