FINAL TOTAL for 2011 £758.59 !!! Our best ever! Thank you!

LAST YEAR'S RESULT

The final total raised for the 2010 tour was £722.72. The cheque was presented to MICHAEL CRAWFORD OBE, President of the Sick Children's Trust, at a ceremony to open the new Eckersley House at Leeds General Infirmary.

The Sick Children's Trust is a charity providing free on-site accommodation for families of seriously-ill children at hospitals around the UK.

Organiser Tony Salmon is pictured with Samantha and their daughters Bethany and Eloise at the presentation. The family spent a lot of time in the Sick Children's Trust's "home from home" over a six-year period while Bethany was very ill. She received a liver transplant in January 2009 and is now doing very well, as you can see from the photo.

Every penny collected on the Arriva Tour goes straight to The Sick Children's Trust - no one takes any expenses.

Below:  The 2010 Arriva Tour pauses for a photoshoot at the top of Webster Hill. Dewsbury. From the front: Arriva-Yorkshire 1802 (YJ08 ECY, new in 2008), Yorkshire Woollen 622 (HD 7905, new in 1948), South Yorkshire 81 (TWY 8, new in 1950 and re-bodied in 1958), West Riding 252 (C920 FMP, new in 1986) and West Riding 733 (EHL 344, new in 1952).