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Title: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: j_rp_wright on September 24, 2013, 03:13:39 PM
Graham Martin passed away on 11/09/13. He ran the Green Bus Service from the Mid 70s till only a few years back.


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Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: Bob on September 24, 2013, 05:05:06 PM
Green bus used to be amazing and had some fantastic vintage buses. It really went a bit downhill last few years not sure what happened :-(((
Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: Justin Tyme on September 24, 2013, 08:05:21 PM
That's sad news.  Graham Martin was very helpful to bus enthusiasts, especially in the earlier years, and he had a fascinating fleet for a long time.  He also made a great success of services that he took over in the 1970s and early 80s, such as Cannock to Penkridge, Longford Estate and Telford.  And he was one of the last bus operators to use traditional Bell Punch tickets!

RIP Graham.
Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: Bob on September 24, 2013, 09:18:44 PM
The telford service used to be packed
Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: Westy on September 24, 2013, 09:21:00 PM
They used to do that route over Cannock Chase to Rugeley didn't they?

Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: mranon on September 24, 2013, 09:50:46 PM
rip graham martin.
Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: Bob on September 25, 2013, 08:06:04 AM
Yes they did rugeley-cannock chase-Hednesford-chadsmoor-cannock-longford estate-Shareshill-Featherstone-wolverhampton.  The handful of cannock to wolves trips left make up todays select 67
Title: Re: Death of Graham Martin, Warstone Motors( Green Bus Service)
Post by: andyr on September 26, 2013, 05:38:37 PM
Very sad to hear the news of Grahams death, i did some work for him during the winter of 2000, the leyland leapords were very different to the Neoplan Starliners i was used to but had a very happy few months working for him...RIP Graham..