Features
Centre Circle event
Nick Larkin reports on a road run event organised by the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust, recreating a 1970s city circular route Twenty classic buses and coaches toured Glasgow City Centre as a reminder of a […]
Heritage
Buses
Final funding appeal
Covid-19 has meant the £345,000 restoration of a 1939 Bristol double-decker as a community asset has not been able to be completed as planned this year. Now an urgent appeal has been launched to raise […]
Features
Free AEC and a New Year’s Day promise
A transport group is offering an AEC double-decker free to a good home for restoration, and is promising to run its New Year’s Day event in some form, reports Nick Larkin the 1962 AEC Renown […]
Features
Hidden transport tours
How about visiting a legendary London tramway that closed in 1952 – from the comfort of your own sofa? The Kingsway Tramway Subway in Holborn was opened in 1906 and was later upgraded so that […]
Features
Twilight time
Transport Museum Wythall’s final running day of 2020 attracted nearly 300 visitors, which despite Covid-19 was well up on the 2019 figure of 235. Stealing the show was Steve Morris’s new to SMT Leyland TD5, […]
Features
Museum’s £1.7m ‘lifeline’
The London Transport Museum has received a £1.75m ‘lifeline’ from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund to help face Covid-19 pandemic challenges. The Covent Garden-based attraction is one of 35 major cultural organisations receiving the first […]
Features
Rail replacement boost for WTHT
Nick Larkin explains how a historic vehicle trust turned its hand to rail replacement as a regular source of income to help maintain its fleet of classic vehicles A Cumbrian classic transport group is boosting […]
Book reviews
Booked in!
Sussex operator Steve Dine has spent the lockdown period writing two classic transport books, which have just been published. “I had spent years researching the books,” said Steve, who runs Essex-based Empress Coaches.
Features
London museum to close for major revamp
The downturn in visitor numbers this year is being used to its advantage at the London Bus Museum, reports Nick Larkin One of Britain’s best-known bus museums is closing from Monday 2 November for a […]
Features
Longer season and later hours at Crich
Crich Tramway Village has announced it will open for an hour longer from Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 October and is opening for an additional weekend on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November. The venue […]
