SWITZERLAND Family-owned Furrer+Frey, which provides development, design, planning, construction and maintenance of overhead contact line systems for public transport, including trams and trolleybuses, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The company, which also develops and builds […]
The Houses of Parliament was the location of a reception earlier this month to launch the second report by the CPT and the Zero Emission Coach Taskforce. Martin Curtis reports on the progress so far […]
Jonathan Welch attended the recent launch of First Leicester’s new fleet of zero-emission buses It’s been a busy couple of weeks for green bus events in Leicester, with Centrebus previewing its new Hop!-branded midibuses, and […]
Jonathan Welch finds out about a new training aid designed to improve driver confidence and service reliability Driver recruitment, training and retention are all topics which are at the forefront of industry minds just now, […]
John Geddes suggests that DRT is not the solution to financial, social or economic pressures when it comes to replacing rural fixed bus services There’s not much debate about the fundamental problem. The number of […]
Preserved pre-war buses are uncommon, six-wheel buses are rare and Karrier buses are rarer still, so a pre-war six-wheeled Karrier bus is quite something. Geoff Lumb, a well-known Huddersfield enthusiast, has been painstakingly restoring Ashton-under-Lyne […]
Nick Larkin reports on an event marking four decades and a lot of change for one south-east operator Half a century of Citybus in Belfast is being celebrated on Saturday 1 April. A gathering of […]
For those with an interest in the coach and bus industry, be it professional or enthusiast, there are always interesting and unusual sights to be seen when out and about on the roads of the […]
Shoreham-based strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company Ricardo, which has been developing a hydrogen conversion for diesel-engined buses, is applying its expertise in chemical training to assist Brighton & Hove Buses and Metrobus to implement […]
Bookings have opened for the Young Bus Managers Network Spring Conference, which is being held in Birmingham. “We’re pleased to be returning to the West Midlands for our next conference,” Network Patron Roger French explained, […]
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