Features
If only everywhere was as good as Woburn
Our coach industry insider laments the way that some venues now choose to treat operators who want to make a booking to visit. If you have been in the coach tourism business for a while, […]
Features
Coach News
From one horsepower to another
With its distinctive gold coaches, Fountain Executive’s vehicles are a well-known sight on the roads of North East Scotland. Jim McWilliam paid a visit to the operator to find out more. Arriving at Fountain Executive’s […]
Bus News
Route of steel
Following completion of the BRT North scheme in South Yorkshire, First South Yorkshire launched the X1 Steel Link between Sheffield, Rotherham and Maltby at the beginning of September. Andy Izatt has been to see what […]
Bus News
Air today, gone tomorrow?
Richard Simpson looks at how bus and coach operators can use biofuels to reduce their carbon footprints. Since the mid 1970s, environmentalists have been telling the rest of us that the world only has about […]
Bus News
All systems go
Gary Mason, Engineering Director at Nottingham City Transport, outlines to Jade Smith the operator’s plans to bring in 53 gas buses with help from nearly £5million worth of funding from OLEV. I met Gary Mason, […]
Features
MCV’s Euro 6 Success
Gareth Evans talks to the management team at Egyptian bodybuilder MCV’s UK subsidiary, which is based near Ely, Cambridgeshire, about its Volvo based bus range – including how it has worked closely with customers on the projects completed […]
Face-to-Face Interviews
Another trophy for a top driver
Mark Woodgate, Driver for Arriva, talks to Elizabeth Howlett about his 33 years in the industry, his experience as a Unite union rep and being crowned Arriva’s Top Driver at the UK Bus Driver of […]
Euro Bus Expo 2016
Volvo’s upbeat update
The effects of Brexit, new coach and bus products and the latest on the introduction of electric traction in London and Harrogate. Gareth Evans reports from Volvo’s pre- EBE editors’ briefing In the face […]
Features
Back on deck
In a CBW exclusive, Gareth Evans reports on the story behind the return of double-decker coaches to the National Express network – and he also rides and drives one of the initial batch of six […]
Euro Bus Expo 2016
‘Forward thinking never ages’
2016 has been a successful year for Wrightbus, with the manufacturer celebrating its 70-year anniversary. Jade Smith attended the pre-Euro Bus Expo press briefing to find out more. Wrightbus will be exhibiting at Euro Bus […]
