Former TfL Director, Clare Kavanagh, has been appointed Service Development Director at Stagecoach Group’s UK Bus division, making her a member of the company’s UK Bus Board. For the past 12 years, Clare has been TfL’s Director of Performance, Surface Transport, with responsibility for the strategic development of the capital’s bus network. In her new […]
National Express Group CEO, Dean Finch, joined Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street to help officially announce the first 50 companies signing up to a flagship policy, encouraging UK businesses to support the Armed Forces. The operator has been chosen thanks to a wide-ranging military support package rolled out across its UK coach, […]
Springwood, Huddersfield based KS Travel has entered liquidation. A general meeting of shareholders of the company was held on 15 October 2013, which saw the decision made to wind up the company and to appoint Redman Nichols Butler as liquidators. The company was established by its Director, Kalwant Singh and commenced trading in September 2002. […]
Bus and coach operations were amongst those affected by the recent stormy weather. Alongside power cuts, disruption, property damage and regrettably, deaths, the hurricane strength winds of the St Jude’s storm also upturned a Beestons double decker in Suffolk. There were reports of a Wrightbus Gemini 2 narrowly missing serious damage in Green Lanes, London […]
Ipswich Buses relaunched its Park and Ride service in the Suffolk town on 28 October, having added eight secondhand Optare Versas sourced through ADL to its fleet to operate the route. The buses will run from the two sites at London Road and Martlesham and now feature a new livery. Two new ADL Enviro200s which […]
Low sales volumes in a weak market impacted profitability for Volvo Buses in the third quarter of 2013. Net sales decreased by 9% to £361.7m/SEK3,705m (Q3 2012: £398.9m/SEK4,076m). Order intake in the period improved and totalled 2,780 buses, which was 41% higher than the same period last year. Volvo Buses reported an operating loss of […]
To celebrate its Diamond Jubilee next year, the UK Coach Rally is launching a new logo, web site and email address. The 2014 Rally will once again take place at Alton Towers Resort and will held on 10 and 11 May 2014. It will also be holding its Saturday night Diamond Jubilee Dinner Dance. At […]
Following a £2.5m investment, Stagecoach North East has unveiled 21 new Euro5 ADL Enviro200s for the Sunderland area. Ten of the buses went into service last week, with the remaining 11 due to arrive over the forthcoming weeks. They replace Euro2 emission Pointer 2 Darts, which are being cascaded into Newcastle placing older ALX200 Darts […]