Coach News

The long awaited South Devon link road  between Newton Abbot’s Penn Inn roundabout and Torquay’s Kerswell gardens bypassing the notorious bottleneck of Kingskerswell on the A380 is nearing completion.

Johnsons of Henley-in-Arden has announced an order for four Plaxton Panthers, taking its new vehicle investment programme with Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) to over £2m this year.

Tributes have been paid to a respected industry manager from the Welsh borderland. The funeral for Bryn Williams, who managed Arriva’s Oswestry Garage for many years, took place on Wednesday (October 28).

A new £500,000 coach stop is to be built in the centre of Wolverhampton, the Express and Star reported.

PCVs to be banned from privately-run coach park in Cotswold tourist honeypot from December Coach operators and drivers are set to boycott Bourton-on-the-Water after it emerged coaches are to be banned from the privately-run coach […]

The threat posed by illegal immigrants attempting to board vehicles at Calais has heightened after coaches were attacked last week.

Taylors Coach Travel of Yeovil, Somerset has acquired Shaftesbury-based Grosvenor Travel. The move follows the firm’s recent purchase of the assets of Axe Vale Coaches in Biddisham in August.

Liberty Specialty Markets, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, is to leave the coach industry.

Coach operators are outraged at ‘confusing’ Lincoln Christmas Market parking prices Coach operators are boycotting Lincoln Christmas Market this year as it was revealed that parking charges are said to be as high as £212.

Trent Barton’s non-stop red arrow coach service between Derby and Nottingham is getting a £3m upgrade, with nine new coaches, each with free 4G WiFi and tables at every seat.