Features
Bigger on the inside?
Most bus operators would love to have the technology of the Time Lords to convert their buses into Tardises with vast interiors that could carry lots of passengers. Sadly that still remains in the realms […]
Features
Buses
UK’s first zero-emission autonomous bus launched in Didcot
Milton Park, First Bus and partners have launched a bus service with a difference in Oxfordshire. Martin Curtis reports The official launch of the first zero-emission autonomous bus service in the UK took place on […]
Features
A different angle
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, […]
Features
Roving around Europe
Written by Melvyn Wilkins, ‘From Stroud Valleys to Alpine Passes’ covers 70 years of two beloved Gloucestershire tour operators, Beavis Alpine Tours and Rover European Travel. These two iconic family coach operators opened up a […]
Coaches
Cygnus shines bright during night test
There are many options for coach operators when it comes to small capacity coaches. Richard Sharman takes a look at a used vehicle with a difference in this segment Cast your mind back to the […]
Features
Tourism: what if we went from ‘all culpable’ to ‘all capable’?
Executive Director for Digital & Sightseeing at RATP Dev’s Tootbus sightseeing operation Arnaud Masson considers matters of the environmental impact of tourism For a company in the tourist sector like Tootbus, getting through Covid-19 wasn’t […]
Features
Morley’s remembered
A highly respected Cambridgeshire independent has been remembered with a reunion on what would have been its 100th anniversary. Morley’s of Whittesey was set up in 1922 and operated its regular service to Peterborough seven […]
Features
Sunderland Lion back home
Nick Larkin reports on a North East bus which has returned home after a nomadic life A 1929 Sunderland Corporation Leyland Lion single-decker has returned to the North East some 80 years after it left. […]
Features
Through Bus, serving Vera country
There are many well-established bus operators in the North East of England, but a recent addition to the scene is an operator that should probably have tea and biscuits with the Traffic Commissioner as soon […]
Industry Heritage
[Correction] Southampton farewell
An incorrect image was used in our coverage of the upcoming Southampton running day on 19 February organised by the Southampton and District Transport Heritage Trust (SADTHT). The AEC Regent illustrated, KOW 909F (401), is […]
