Big Picture

Previously in a ‘What’s On Scotland’ advertising wrap in partnership with STV, HSK 651 has become Scottish Citylink’s Christmas coach for the 2024 festive season, wearing an advent calendar style version of the company’s corporate […]

This week’s Big Picture takes us back to 2023 and north to the Scottish ferry port of Ullapool, where Richard Walter captured this scene. Cooper’s Tourmaster Plaxton Panther WSV 479 unloads its passengers, with the […]

A type not often featured in CBW’s pages, MX23 LDK is one of two Mellor Sigma 10s owned by Dumfries & Galloway Council and purchased with the help of funding from the Scottish Government. After […]

Looking rather clean given the time of year, this Borders Buses Optare Versa was captured by Ray Ward near Coldstream on Kelso to Berwick-Upon-Tweed service 67 on 22 November.

Tamar Coaches has recently taken delivery of a new Yutong GT12 coach from Pelican Bus & Coach. Registered YK74 OZW, the coach is the operator’s first large Yutong in a fleet where full size coaches […]

More and more fleets across the country are introducing electric buses in ever-increasing numbers. One recent delivery, as reported in CBW issue 1651, was of 12 additional 10.9m Wrightbus Electroliner single-deckers to Transport UK’s London […]

A coach type which has always been relatively rare in the UK is the Neoplan Starliner, no longer available in right hand drive form. Richard Walter captured this example in the coach park next to […]

An appropriately seasonal image for this week’s Big Picture, created for Go North East by Charlotte Graham. See page 63 for more details on the operator’s spooky Halloween themed photoshoot.

On Saturday 5 October James Otley captured this colourful image of Southdown Bristol VR 603, TPN 103S, in Rotherfield village near Tunbridge Wells in East Sussex, whilst taking part in the annual Rotherfield running day […]

For this week’s Big Picture, we take a trip into mainland Europe, and make a visit to the Netherlands. Even though the Connexion VDL Futura double-deck coaches are seven years old, says photographer Ray Ward, […]