Year: 2019
The Cistern Chapel: Crossness Pumping Station
In an occasional feature, Alan Payling looks at some very different and unusual ideas that coach and tour operators are offering their passengers to get bums on seats – in more ways than one
Blackpool: See the light
Blackpool realises the importance of coaches to its local economy and has implemented a number of measures to bolster its offering to visiting coach parties. Angela Youngman investigates what the seaside town has to offer
Never missing a beat
Despite a number of setbacks in the last decade, Chiltern Travel is still going strong. Trevor and Joel Boorman tell James Day the full story
Slippery Customers
Today’s high-viscosity lubricants act fast to protect an engine’s components. John Lewis reports on the bus industry’s unsung heroes
Walsall councillor publishes Bus Tour Diary
Walsall Councillor and England Bus Pass campaigner, Richard Worrall, has published his Bus Tour Diary detailing his 16-day, 85-bus charity tour around England.
Driver buys 50 school children breakfast
When a winter snow storm in Motevallo, Alabama caused a two-hour school bus delay, bus driver Wayne Price bought the 50 school children on his bus breakfast from McDonald’s.
Chinese AI confuses bus ad for jaywalker
AI systems in China recently mistook an advert on a bus for a jaywalker. Dong Mingzhu, the head of China’s biggest air-conditioner maker, Gree Electric, was advertising her company on the side of a bus […]
CBW’s newest models
As you may have noticed on social media recently, Anthony’s Travel sent us some hoodies to try out.
Speedy road replacement in Alaska
On Friday 30 November, Alaska was struck by a 7.0 earthquake that seriously damaged roads and walkways. One particular road connecting International Airport Road and Minnesota Drive in Anchorage was completely devastated by the earthquake.