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Newest coaches in the fleet are a pair of executive specification 57-seat VDL Futura 2s including this Farnham Coaches vehicle. RICHARD KIRWIN

Despite difficult trading conditions, the different elements of Guildford-based Safeguard Coaches continue to prosper as Managing Director Andrew Halliday outlined to Andy Izatt

Safeguard Coaches of Guildford in Surrey is a rare type of operator, a family-owned firm that as well as having two brands – it also trades as Farnham Coaches – maintains a mixed portfolio of work that includes a substantial element of commercial local bus work. This is a long established company, not just well respected locally in Surrey and Hampshire, but also held in high regard across the industry. Managing Director Andrew Halliday is not a member of the owning Newman family. Rather a Yorkshireman whose formative career was spent with London Buses, but who has now been at Safeguard for 17 years[…]

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