The Transport Lens

Welcome

Welcome to The Transport Lens, home of an ever growing collection of transport imagery and video footage. There are videos created at rallies and also of in service buses as well as photos going back over 50 years. We are based in the North East of England and work with both moving and still images. We mostly concentrate on buses but you will also find other forms of transport such as trams, trains and classic cars.

Feel free to look around the site and get a feel for it all.

So who is The Transport Lens?

Mara

Mara started attending Classic Car Rallies with a friend whose family owned several classic cars, before getting her own. A Classic MX-5 Mk1 with the iconic pop-up headlights known as ‘Lady’. She has a background in fine art photography and film-making with her work in the genre being exhibited both nationally and internationally. She holds a Master of Arts in Photography with Distinction from the University of Sunderland.

Mara Robinson of The Transport Lens
Ian Robinson of The Transport Lens

Ian

Ian has been an avid bus enthusiast since childhood, regularly attending rallies around the country. His first car was a Morris Minor 1000 which he still owns and drives whenever he can. He now curates several photographic transport archives going back over 50 years. Much of his free time is spent scanning and cataloguing old slide images.

Bus Videos

Ready to watch some bus videos? All of our videos are loaded onto our YouTube Channel but we’re also adding them here on the website. Head on over to the Bus Videos page and select the location you’re interested in.