Abellio Surrey has extended the use of its ‘Oyster Match’ ticket. Now its passengers between Kingston and Esher can use it. It is already proving highly popular with users of the operator’s 458 and 459 services. Statistics show that over the same weeks this year compared to 2014 Oyster Match tickets nearly trebled on the […]
megabus.com has announced a number of planned timetable improvements to its Benelux network. From 18 May, the company is extending its daily service between Brussels and Luxembourg to serve Strasbourg, once a day in each direction, seven days a week. It is also introducing a new service, which will operate once a day between Rotterdam, […]
Go-Ahead owned Salisbury Reds has take over operation of the bus services to all five park and ride sites in and around Salisbury. When Hatts Coaches went into administration last year, Salisbury Reds took over three of the park and ride sites, with Stagecoach taking on the other two, pending the official tendering process. On […]
A ‘satisfactory performance overall’ was reported in Go-Ahead’s trading statement for its third quarter trading. The figures are reported on a year to date basis from 29 June 2014 to 28 March 2015. Its regional bus operations saw revenue slow in the third quarter due to the lapping of contract gains in the same period […]
To celebrate 100 years of Southdown Motor Services, Stagecoach has launched two specially liveried buses. The ADL Enviro300 has been finished in the traditional Southdown green and cream livery that was evident in various guises from 1915 until the early 1990s. The Enviro400 represents the operator’s wartime variation of green and battleship grey to commemorate […]
Faversham based South East Coachworks has refurbished perhaps one of the smallest vehicles to enter its workshop. Chris Bichard from the company has for the past five years been working on a Johnstone Midget Coach, restoring it from the ‘sorry state’ he acquired it in. Chris’ apprentice has also been involved in the restoration of […]
Go-Ahead’s Southern Vectis has launched the St Cross Business Express bus service on the Isle of Wight. The route runs between Newport and the St Cross Business Park. It operates weekdays, three times in the morning and three times in the evening, matching business start and finish times. The operator has worked closely with the […]
Just after we went to press last week we learned of the sudden death of Phil Margrave, recently retired Group Chief Engineer for the Go Ahead Group. He had been taken ill the previous evening during a night out with industry colleagues. Aged 60 he spent 43 years in the bus business, having started with […]