Billy Elliot

(2000, Julie Walters, Jamie Bell)

Striking miners try to prevent a coach full of strikebreakers crossing the picket line. The coach is NPT672M, a Bedford YRT/Plaxton Elite III, new to Roberts, Wingate, in dark blue livery and fitted with wire mesh protection over the windows:
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Later in the film there is a brief side view of a National Express Rapide coach on the trip south from Durham to London:
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Later still a Rapide coach (the same?) is seen leaving Durham bus station with the young Billy aboard alone:
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