Louise Cheeseman, founder and Chair of Women in Bus and Coach and a Non-Executive Director at Go-Ahead, has been awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025. The award was made in recognition of Louise’s services to the transport industry and diversity. Louise launched […]
Anthony’s Travel raised £1,215 for Cardiomyopathy UK at its 40th anniversary celebrations. The operator also awarded grants of £400 to community partners Night Stop North West and Victoria Music, as well as a complimentary coach trip for Eat at the Heath, Runcorn. The event, held at DCBL Stadium, Widnes, celebrated the operator’s 40 years of […]
Volvo Buses has secured signed orders for more than a dozen Volvo B13R UNVI XL 4×2 single-deck coaches. Additionally, customers hold options on a further ten vehicles in the final stages of specification. The developments come just three months after the model’s announcement. Volvo and UNVI will build the first vehicle, a 53-seat model, over […]
From Friday 4 July National Express is boosting its daily coach services between London and the south coast. The boost to services follows recent data from YouGov’s Destination Index, indicating that more than one in ten (14%) of Britons are most likely to visit UK destinations during the summer period – just behind Spain (16%) […]
Strong underlying First Bus performance is one of the main factors behind First Group‘s rise in adjusted revenue of £1,370m (FY 2024: £1,279.6m) for the financial year ending 29 March 2025. Group adjusted operating profit increased to £222.8m (FY 2024: £204.3m), driven by First Bus rising £12.4m to £96.0m and First Rail up £5.5m to £148.8m. It had a 10% adjusted operating profit margin in the second half […]
Caledonian Leisure has announced that it has recorded an annual turnover of over £63m for 2024. This represents a profitable turnover growth of 15% on the previous year, up from £55m. The company launched in June 2021 and operates under the Caledonian Travel and UKBreakaways brands. Earlier this year, the company added ten new Temsa touring coaches […]
Ember, the UK’s first all-electric inter-city coach company, is running its fleet of electric coaches exclusively on Michelin rubber. Ember now operates 78 Yutong electric coaches on routes across Scotland, with its headquarters at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP), in Dundee. “Because our utilisation is so high, it’s imperative we have long-lasting and reliable […]
Bedfordshire-based Cozy Travel is to join FlixBus in a new partnership unveiled today. The partnership will begin on 13 June, adding Brighton as a new destination for the UK-wide coach network. Serving the seaside city for the first time, the route will link Brighton to Gatwick Airport, London and Cambridge twice a day in each […]