Buses

Breaking down barriers

Fortitude Communications’ Greig Box Turnbull spoke to Phil Southall, Managing Director of Oxford Bus Company, Thames Travel, Carousel Buses and City Sightseeing Oxford to give an insight into how the companies have adapted communications during […]

Buses

Rural revival

Sargeants Brothers has a long tradition of operating rural bus services in Herefordshire, but a change in ownership in November 2019 has seen the company become ‘21st century ready.’ Richard Sharman paid a socially-distanced visit […]

Buses

At a crossroads

Following last week’s article on Go-Coach’s go2 DRT scheme, Peter Jackson continues his chat with Go-Coach Managing Director Austin Blackburn by looking to the future CBW: How much of an advantage is it being Sevenoaks’ […]

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Solo gathering

Nick Larkin reports on a 17-year-old vehicle fitter who is building up a collection of Optare Solos – including the oldest survivor Ryan Coles works for Tech Trucks in Herefordshire, which has now taken over […]

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Ledgard lives on

More than half a century after its demise, a legendary Yorkshire operator is still creating huge interest, with a thriving society honouring its memory and now a new book.

Buses

Urko needs saviour

The last surviving Irizar Urko on a Volvo B58 chassis urgently needs a preservationist to save it. LAJ 999W is one of only 14 examples imported into the UK by John de Cotta, and was new […]

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Malta Vintage

Malta’s public bus network has seen major changes over the last decade, and now its once-common route buses are making a return on a heritage service, as Jonathan Welch reports Most people will have heard […]

Buses

Low-floor pioneer donated to museum

Stagecoach has donated its first low-floor bus delivered outside London to the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester, reports Nick Larkin Stagecoach’s first low-floor double-decker delivered to a division outside London, T612 MNF, which was also […]