Big Picture

Big Picture 1632

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 […]

Big Picture

Big Picture 1631

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 […]

Big Picture

Big Picture 1629

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 […]

Big Picture

Big Picture 1628

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 […]

Big Picture

Big Picture 1627

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 […]

Big Picture

Transdev has worked in partnership with North Yorkshire Council to deliver improvements on a number of its North Yorkshire routes serving Ilkley, Skipton and Grassington, with enhanced services operating since 7 April. The routes are […]

Big Picture

Big Picture 1625

As we recently reported, a new name in the North East bus scene is Northstar, owned by founder and former Go North East employee Dan Graham. The operator’s first fully-liveried bus is D24 NST, an […]

No Picture
Big Picture

Big Picture 1624

Reading Buses’ Alexander Dennis Enviro400City 741, RG24 BUS, was captured by Richard Sharman on its first day in revenue earning service operating ‘The London Line’ service 702 to Windsor on the 13 April. The bus […]

Big Picture

Big Picture 1623

Karl Oakley captured this image of 35 new and as yet unregistered Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) Alexander Dennis Enviro 500MMCs stored at Tuen Mun Chek Lap Kok Tunnel Interchange prior to entering service. These and […]