Big Picture

Following the news of Arriva’s decision to close its High Wycombe and Aylesbury depots, other operators are to take over a number of services. Carousel, part of the Go-Ahead Group, has been carrying out driver […]

First Bus operated many of the special services for this year’s Silverstone F1 Grand Prix, bringing in buses from its operating companies around the country, including from Essex-based Ensignbus and First Potteries, as seen in […]

Old and new. As you will see from our Industry Heritage pages, CBW’s editor has been driving some classic buses recently. As a keen photographer too, he intended to stop off for a few scenic […]

A type which doesn’t feature often in the pages of CBW is the Scania N230UD OmniCity. Preston Bus YN08 MOF was photographed in the sunshine by Richard Walter heading for Preston’s bus station. The operator […]

Belle Vue Coaches of Stockport recently announced an order for 18 additional Yutong GT12 coaches for use on its FlixBus contracts. YD24 EUX represents one of five recently delivered to the operator, and was captured […]

Following on from last week’s news item about new Solaris-Skoda trolleybuses in Prague, this image by David Jordan shows an earlier generation of Eastern European trolleybus. The Skoda 14Tr was produced in Plzen in the […]

The once mighty Green Line brand may now be reduced to just one coach service and consist of more white than green, but it appears that the Lime fleet of rental bikes is a fan […]

This week’s Big Picture takes us back to the late 1960s. Emily Whitlam captured this thoughtfully-composed image of Midland Red S22 PHA 505G at the recent Leicester Transport Heritage Trust Bus Rally & Railcar Weekend […]

Richard Sharman was in the right place at the right time to capture FirstGroup-owned EnsignBus 160, the former Hong Kong Wrightbus StreetDeck named ‘Peter Newman,’ meeting fellow First Bus-owned Solent Electric Wrightbus GB Kite Electroliner […]

As was widely reported via social media, a double-decker bus caught fire in Blackburn bus station on 7 May. The bus was Transdev’s R100 TDV, seen in this image by Chris Newton whilst leaving Blackburn […]