Big Picture

The Orkney Isles are famous for their dramatic cliffs, early cultural museums and historical stone monuments from Neolithic times. Between March and October 2019, Stagecoach Orkney ran an open-top tour of the sights, operated by […]

“Sometimes you’re just in the right place at the right time,” said Kris Lake, who captured this dramatic image of Go-Ahead London’s SN61BGX on route 147 in early December 2019. The neat alignment of the […]

As we start the new year still in the depths of winter, this picture is a reminder of warmer weather. Stromness, Orkney-based J&V Coaches operates a number of Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated buses on cruise shuttle […]

As reported in International News this week, MAN handed over the first two Lion’s City E buses for trials in Hamburg. This dramatic image shows the two vehicles after the handover ceremony, which took place […]

In this first issue of 2020, it seems appropriate to feature this image by Richard Walter, showing Original London Sightseeing Tour open-topper VXE734 (YJ11TVV) with Happy New Year vinyls, heading alongside the Thames towards Westminster […]

In addition to the festive shop themes, London’s Oxford Street itself is always well decorated at Christmas time. Richard Walter caught Wrightbus New Routemaster LT 491 (LTZ1491) on a cold December night in 2015 amongst […]

In keeping with this issue’s theme, and as a reminder of the warmer weather of the summer as we approach Christmas, is this shot from Stephen Whiteley of East Yorkshire open-topper 894 passing a busy […]

Staying on the island of Ireland for this week’s Big Picture, this time we visit Belfast where Jonathan Welch photographed one of the city’s 30 Glider-branded 18.6m Van Hool Exqui.City hybrid articulated buses at Wellington […]

Dubin-based Harris Auto had this Higer Steed electric midibus available for viewing in mid-November, following its appearance at Busworld in Brussels. Having been demonstrated to interested parties and operators, CBW was able to take it […]

Borders Buses is taking delivery of 10 new ADL Enviro200 MMCs, each with dedicated spaces for two bikes, which have been split between Galashiels and Berwick depots. Richard Walter caught 11918 (SN69ZNJ) on a sunny […]