Sightseeing buses were once the cinderallas of the fleet, old double-deckers shorn of their roof parading slowly around historic cities and seafonts for perhaps a few months of the year. With increasing popularity and longer seasons, operators realised that easier access and lower emissions were essential to sustainability resulting in significant numbers of new build […]
In the presence of stakeholders and guests from across the industry, Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer, has officially launched Reading Buses’ £1m gas station. The project, partly funded by a one off Gas Bus Infrastructure Support Grant from the DfT, supports Reading Buses’ current fleet of 34 Scania ADL gas buses and is scalable for future […]
Set to stand out amongst Arriva Southern Counties’ buses in the Medway area are six 14-plate Euro5 ADL Enviro400s being placed on its 101 route in Medway. The service has been upgraded to the operator’s premium Sapphire brand and branded accordingly. The £1.2m worth of new vehicles were introduced to press and the public at […]
Oxford Bus has received delivery of the first of 14 new ADL Enviro400s for its BROOKESbus network. They were presented to senior Oxford Brookes University directors and the media on 2 September, by Operations Director, Phil Southall. The buses are the first of a new generation of Enviro400s by Alexander Dennis. They are the first […]
Its head office in Coventry was the opening venue for a series of road shows that King Long is taking across the country to promote their new range of vehicles. Despite a rather cold and damp day, operators turned up to test drive King Long’s latest offerings and Kirsty Flatt took the opportunity to jump […]
Arriva as a group has been very innovative in developing marketing initiatives and the latest of them, MAX, was unveiled in a typically flamboyant manner in Newcastle on Monday evening. Held at the Life Science Centre in the heart of Newcastle in order to stress the idea of innovation, the launch featured an unusual special […]
The UK 12m single deck bus market is not as large as it once was, with midibuses and extended versions of midibuses claiming the dominant share of total single deck sales. Despite this, there are still operators who want to run something they see as heavier duty and among them is Simonds of Botesdale, now […]
Alexander Dennis Limited has broken through to mainland Europe, with the delivery of 20 Plaxton Elitei coaches to PolskiBus.com, the intercity express coach company launched in June 2011 by Souter Holdings. The company offers comfortable and inexpensive coach travel across Poland and extending to the capital cities of adjacent countries, Berlin, Bratislava, Prague and Vienna. […]