Features

Arriva go Gaga – Showbiz send off for new Wakefield fleet

Speaking to guests, who including senior business people from both Wakefield and Castleford as well as the Mayor of Wakefield, Cllr Sandra Pickin, Regional Managing Director (Arriva Yorkshire, Arriva North East and Yorkshire Tiger), Nigel Featham, said that it was: ‘an important day for Arriva and more importantly an important day for the wider West […]

LT Museum unveils restored B-type – First sighting of B2737 before going in to battle

The project was funded thanks to a £750,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and forms part of the museum’s ‘Year of the Bus’ and First World War commemorations; ‘Goodbye Piccadilly – from the Home Front to the Western Front’. This was the double decker’s inaugural public appearance since the restoration by London Transport Museum […]

Surveillance on the increase – CCTV in the bus and coach market

Transport Technology Systems David Cummings, a Director at Transport Technology Systems (TTS), believes the bus and coach CCTV market is ‘quite big’ at the moment, driven by insurance, with equipment fitted as a way of keeping premiums down. He finds more cameras are now being installed on coaches, which are not usually on the receiving […]

The first Welsh Coach Rally – Part of the 2014 Swansea Festival of Transport

A small number of PCVs have regularly participated in the Festival and organiser Ashley Lovering saw the opportunity for a specific area of the event where Welsh coach operators could promote themselves, their vehicles and services on offer. The area chosen was the grassed hard standing in front of Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum, on one […]

Transports Publics 2014 – France invests in public transport

In previous years there have sometimes been complete rail vehicles, but this time there were only some small scale models. Perhaps that was why the exhibition appeared smaller than before. Another factor may have been an exhibition in Bordeaux last November at which a significant number of Euro6 buses were launched. European manufacturers have spent […]

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