Coaches
Reinventing Maynes
Kevin Mayne, Operations Director at Maynes Coaches, has been involved with the family firm since the age of eight. Angela Youngman caught up with him to learn about Maynes’ current strategy
Coaches
Coach Driver Profile
Year in the life
Alan Payling speaks to a one-vehicle family coach operator to find out what they got up to in 2018 and see where they are going in 2019 – and discovers that one member of the […]
Coaches
Coachbuilding the future
South East Coachworks has grown and diversified hugely since it was started in 2003, spawning a number of subsidiary companies. But, as Director Chris Bichard explained to Peter Jackson, it hasn’t lost sight of its […]
Catering for Coaches
The Cistern Chapel: Crossness Pumping Station
In an occasional feature, Alan Payling looks at some very different and unusual ideas that coach and tour operators are offering their passengers to get bums on seats – in more ways than one
Catering for Coaches
Blackpool: See the light
Blackpool realises the importance of coaches to its local economy and has implemented a number of measures to bolster its offering to visiting coach parties. Angela Youngman investigates what the seaside town has to offer
Buses
Never missing a beat
Despite a number of setbacks in the last decade, Chiltern Travel is still going strong. Trevor and Joel Boorman tell James Day the full story
Catering for Coaches
Salisbury: Explore and discover
Angela Youngman takes a trip to Salisbury to see what the historic city and its surrounding areas have to offer visiting coach groups
Catering for Coaches
A vintage coach tour: Part two
Alan Payling concludes his re-creation of an eight-day coach tour of the West Country operated by Yelloway Motor Services in 1936
Buses
Cherished workhorses at W H Fowler & Sons
Three 1990s Volvos are still doing sterling work at Lincolnshire operator W H Fowler & Sons and are cherished members of the fleet.
Coaches
There are things we know…
When it comes to preparing for the year ahead, it’s important for coach operators to know where they stand in terms of group rates. As coach tourism specialist Stuart Render says, some visitor attractions miss […]
