Excellence among engineers, mentors and engineering businesses from across the UK have been recognized at the SOE’s Safety and Resilience in Engineering Awards 2024. Among the winners was Stagecoach, taking two of the accolades. Held on 17 October at ThinkTank in Birmingham Science Museum, the awards recognise and celebrate the entrants’ incredible work in safety […]
Stagecoach East is pleased to welcome its latest Graduate Trainee, Victoria Taylor. The new recruit is specialising in Operations at the company and is now set to work in different parts of the business to get a deeper understanding of it. With a degree in Consumer Behaviour and Marketing, she will aim to bring expert […]
Rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging systems provider Heliox and First Bus are announcing a significant expansion of their collaboration. The expanded partnership is to see the development of five new electric bus charging depots. These depots will be strategically located in Bristol, Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Taunton and Basildon, and have been made possible thanks to an […]
Pulhams is set to receive 15 electric buses as part of parent company Go-Ahead Group’s wider electric bus orders across the UK. The vehicles include nine single-deckers and six double-deckers, all manufactured by Wrightbus. Pulhams has appointed Envevo to install the electric charging infrastructure at its depot in Bourton-on-the-Water in preparation for the arrival of […]
Stagecoach East is adding even more buses onto its Cambridgeshire Guided Busway routes after an unprecedented increase in passengers on the services. Last year, between August and September, Stagecoach East’s services on the Busway saw a 7% increase in passengers – this year that figure has ballooned to a 20% increase overall. At certain times […]
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has visited Rochdale-based Mellor. The manufacturer has been building 28 buses for Greater Manchester’s franchised Bee Network, 21 of which are already in service and the remaining seven set to operate early next year. They are being used to serve smaller local estates and communities, with the compact buses […]
Brighton & Hove Buses is introducing personalised travel alerts on its app. The Go-Ahead-owned operator has had a new feature added to its journey planning app, where customers can choose to receive push notifications about any new disruptions affecting a route or bus stop that they have ‘favourited’ in the app. Currently, favouriting routes and […]
Go-Ahead Group has partnered with CitySwift, a public transport performance platform designed to make timetables more efficient and maximise service reliability. The platform is to provide Go-Ahead’s operating companies with insights to help maximise network reliability and punctuality. Go-Ahead has already used CitySwift in its East Yorkshire Buses, Oxford Bus Company and Go North East […]