EvoBus (UK) is to open its doors on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 November with a the November Sales Event at its National Handover Centre in Coventry. During the two days, operators will be welcomed with refreshments and, forming the backdrop to the event, a wide selection of Tourismo stock vehicles will be present, including […]
GVVT’s annual open weekend at Bridgeton Bus Garage made a successful return for 2021 with regular free shuttle services from the garage to Glasgow city centre and the city’s Riverside transport museum. A wide variety of vehicles ran on each day with the ‘corpie’ (Glasgow Corporation) vehicles more prominent on the Saturday and Scottish Bus […]
Next week’s Young Bus Manager’s Network (YBMN) Conference is now fully-booked with 85 attendees joining. The event starts at 1pm on 13 October and lasts until the afternoon of 14 October. It was originally scheduled to take place in the spring of 2020 and it marks the return of “in-person” activity for the Young Bus […]
The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, better known as the Midland Red, is central to the history of bus operation in the Midlands and the Autumn Running Day of the Transport Museum Wythall focused heavily, but not exclusively, on its buses and coaches. The event, held on 3 October, marked 40 years since the […]
Organisers of the Bus Driver of the Year (BDoY) competition have announced a date for the event’s return. The National Final for the 2022 edition is to be held on Sunday 18 September at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool. BDoY national competitions were cancelled in 2020 and this year due to the pandemic. “The good news […]
The Coach Tourism Association‘s Workshop and Networking event set to take place in Liverpool has been postponed – because coach operators say they are too busy to go. The event – originally set for 26 – 28 September – had an enthusiastic response, says the CTA, but almost all of the bookings were from supplier […]
Organisers of the annual South East Bus Festival are looking forward to this year’s postponed event going ahead at Kent Showground on Sunday 10 October. Once again, the event as part of the Kent County Agricultural Society’s Heritage Transport Show. “With life now much nearer to normal than it has been over the past eighteen […]
Mercedes-Benz Bus and Coach has launched its accessible, PSVAR-specification Tourismo coach at ITT Hub. The 12m Tourismo Access on display at the exhibition has 53 Travel Eco Star seats, centre toilet, heated driver’s seat, air conditioning, coach multimedia system, rear view camera, microphone, refrigerator and OMNIplus ON telematics. Its power comes from the Mercedes-Benz OM936 […]