Wrightbus has secured an order from German operator Saarbahn. The 28 Kite Hydroliners are due to be delivered this year. The order follows similar orders in Germany from West Verkehr, which will receive 12 single-deck Kite Hydroliners, and Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH (RVK), which has signed a contract for up to 60 Kite Hydroliners. Further contracts […]
Stagecoach and FirstGroup have been ranked among some of the world’s greenest companies. FirstGroup has been recognised with a place in the 2024 Clean200 report of the world’s cleanest 200 companies. It boasts being one of only eight UK companies to be included. FirstGroup makes the list for the fifth year in succession and is […]
Reading Buses has put some of its Alexander Dennis-bodied Scania gas buses on its new look service 9. The route has been rebranded as Buzz 9 and using obtained for Reading Borough Council’s bus service improvement plan was extended in January. The updated Buzz brand is being used for routes in Reading that are financially […]
Glenn De Sousa has been appointed as Head of Commercial at Oxford Bus Group. He is tasked with helping to drive strategic partnerships as part of the operator’s network growth plan. His promotion follows a restructure of the group’s commercial department to underpin continued growth. Mr De Sousa’s role will include enhanced responsibilities for publicity […]
Wrightbus‘ planned hydrogen coach is expected to be in production by 2026. Jean-Marc Gales, Wrightbus CEO, told B&CB that a prototype model intended to demonstrate the powertrain is expected towards the end of this year. Jean-Marc said: “The concept is ready, the predevelopment work has been done, so we are confident we can launch it […]
First Bus and City of York Council have announced that York now boasts the UK’s biggest all-electric Park and Ride bus network. The achievement comes with the introduction of a double-decker zero emission bus on the Rawcliffe Bar Service 2 circular, west of the city centre, which replaces an articulated diesel vehicle. It means the […]
Tower Transit is to improve access to its bus services in the Channel Islands using Omnibus’ General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Exporter. The GTFS Exporter will take scheduled service information from the operator’s cloud-based Omnibus scheduling suite and create all the data structures and formatting required for a compliant data export. This export can be […]
CPT has raised over £500 for Eastbourne RNLI. The CPT raised the funds at its South East and London Annual Dinner last autumn at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, which had over 120 attendees. CPT’s London and South East Chairman, Matthew Arnold, was on hand to present Eastbourne RNLI’s Operations Manager, Carl Pocock, their cheque […]