It is a busy 50th anniversary summer for Alpine Travel and, arriving at their modern headquarters in Llandudno, it is clear that much of the fleet is out at work with little more to see than the back-up sightseeing vehicles and a few school coaches parked up for the holidays. There’s a warm welcome from […]
Statfold Narrow Gauge Steam Trust teams up with the Transport Museum Wythall (TMW) to increase the range of attractions at its countryside site near Tamworth. For many years, Graham and Carol Lee have been collecting transport heritage and building an amazing narrow-gauge railway network alongside their farm and seed oil business. Once known only to […]
Sustainability came to the fore in Sweden last week in presentations marking the completion of the introduction of Scania’s new generation bus, coach and chassis range. The renewal process started in 2019 when the Citywide LF was unveiled, followed by the Citywide LE and Interlink and now extending across the entire portfolio. It is not […]
The piecemeal introduction of PSVAR regulations continues apace with applications for further “medium term” exemptions for home to school transport and rail replacement having opened. These will replace the current short term special authorisations and will commence on 1 July 2022 and run until 31st July 2026. The grant of an exemption will not mean […]
The last time we had a Tourliner on road test was March 2020 – just a fortnight before the world shut down and all the praise we heaped upon it seemed wasted. We’d like to think, as a magazine, that our road tests will prompt a few readers to consider the merits of each vehicle […]
With ridership on TfL’s service 63 between Kings Cross and Honor Oak and the N36 night bus approaching pre-pandemic levels, the route is receiving a further boost with the deployment of 29 new ADL/BYD Enviro 400EV zero-emission electric double-deck buses. Not only are these ‘green,’ they are arguably the most passenger-friendly buses yet introduced in […]
Over the past 40 years I doubt whether any company has bought and sold more used double-deck buses than EnsignBus, the Purfleet based dealer and operator run by the Newman family. It has also bought batches of new buses for its local bus, rail replacement and contract operations. The operating side has a network of […]
The need to provide a PSVAR-equipped vehicle on any school service on which separate fares are charged as well as all rail replacement work is causing operators up and down the UK a major headache. The Mercedes-Benz answer is a coach that has all the essentials but few of the non-essentials at a price as […]