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In the wake of its recent rebrand, Jonathan Welch takes a look through the archives at First’s previous corporate identities Formed from the merger of Aberdeen’s GRT Group, the former Grampian Regional Transport, and the […]

Richard Walter continues his two-part photographic review of electric, hydrogen, autonomous buses and other developments from 2023 As mentioned in the last issue of CBW, Zemo Partnership published a summary of the number of low […]

Stagecoach West recently celebrated its 30-year anniversary, having been formed out of the takeover of Western Travel. Richard Sharman takes a pictorial look back over the last few decades Western Travel was a company born […]

In our lead feature this week, Jonathan Welch looks at Ipswich Buses. Here, he takes a short look at some of the other buses to be found in the Suffolk town Ipswich isn’t just home […]

Just over one year ago on 1 March, Southend-on-Sea was granted city status. Richard Sharman takes a look at the bus scene there on a cold but sunny February afternoon, which turned out to be […]

Operators around the UK and Ireland have started to take delivery of vehicles with the new ‘23’ registration plates, which run from 1 March to 1 September 2023 Acorn/OTS Cornish independent OTS of Falmouth has […]

Richard Walter shares some scenes from in and around Edinburgh, where McGill’s has taken over services previously operated by First Scotland East, and initially adopted a livery which bears a remarkable similarity to established competing […]

We receive a lot of images and correspondence in the CBW office, so it’s nice to see something a bit different occasionally. Ray Ward presents a small selection of images from around the South West, […]

                    Operators brought a massive splash of colour to the London Bus Museum Spring Gathering. Nick Larkin reports on some of the modern visitors to the […]