ECW Celebration 2017

The Eastern Coachworks bus building factory situated in Lowestoft, Suffolk was closed in 1987. Over the weekend of the 8th and 9th July 2017 the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, staged an excellent event to mark 30 years since its closure. The independent transport videos cameras were on hand to record the event just as they did in 2012 when the 25th year was also commemorated. A good number of preserved ECW-bodied buses were invited to take part in the event and these turned up from many parts of the United Kingdom. The variety of visiting vehicles brought back memories of forgotten liveries and fleets that are now no more. The East Anglia Transport Museum is home to an interesting collection of trolleybuses and trams. On the days of filming they were running London Transport and Maidstone Corporation trolleybuses as well as a London Transport and a Blackpool Corporation tramcar.