Buses
Heritage liveries requested for museum event
A bus museum is extending a warm welcome to operators to join in its 30th anniversary celebrations – and issued a special request.
Heritage
Coaches
Freeline freed!
Nick Larkin discovers that a rare Cambridgeshire coach has been saved from a garden by a new owner looking to fully restore it
Buses
A coaching parade
The Tulip Festival and Parade in Spalding took place on the first Saturday in May from 1959 through to 2013. In its day it was a major event in the coaching calendar with quite literally […]
Features
Operators going for nostalgia
Operators are going for nostalgia in a big way and having vehicles owned for many years restored, says the owner of one of Britain’s best-respected vehicle bodywork specialists. “The industry has changed,” said Steve Waggitt […]
Features
OB owned from new
A 1949 Bedford OB that has been owned by the same operator from new is nearing completion of a major restoration. MRB765 joined the Andrew’s of Tideswell fleet in 1949 and was in service until […]
Buses
46th Spring Gathering at Brooklands
Last Sunday saw the London Bus Museum’s annual Spring Gathering bus rally which is held at Brooklands in Surrey. The day dawned with low cloud and fog patches, and remained that way throughout most of […]
Features
Thanks for RT event
Nick Larkin reports on a London celebration, the likes of which is unlikely to be repeated Operators have been thanked for their part in a truly spectacular tribute to the legendary London Transport RT-type. Around […]
Features
Operators give support to trust
Operators are giving their support to the North West Vehicle Restoration Trust’s 2019 Annual Running Day at which a major new heritage vehicle restoration will be revealed. Aintree Coachline Managing Director John Cherry chairs the […]
Features
Olympian quartet on offer
A former Yorkshire operator recovering from illness that forced him to give up the business is hoping to find good homes for four Volvo Olympian double-deckers and spares for them.
Features
See your MP!
A 1999 MAN 18:220 restored to original Stagecoach guise by a Manchester-based operator has been seen across the country on rail replacement work – some of it for its original owner!
