In its Interim Management Statement, Go-Ahead reported a ‘robust’ performance in all of its divisions in the period from 30 June 2013 to 23 October 2013. In its deregulated bus business during the period, underlying revenue growth (excluding the benefit of delivering transport for the Olympic sailing events in Weymouth) was in line with expectations […]
Five local authorities are to receive a share of ￡1.4m to cut pollution from buses. The councils are: Brighton and Hove City Council (￡750,000 for 50 buses), Sunderland City Council and Durham County Council (￡275,500 for 19 buses), Oxford City Council (￡199,995 for 11 buses), Swale Borough Council (￡150,000 for ten buses) and City of […]
Cresta Coaches of Bridgend has taken delivery of two Noone Turas 800 bodied Mercedes-Benz Vario 818 minicoaches. One of the vehicles has 29 Politecnica seats, two tables and a red interior, whilst the other has 33 Politecnica seats and blue interior. They each have an Autoclima air conditioning system, convection heating, a reversing camera and […]
EYMS Group has sold its Finglands coach operation to Bullocks Coaches of Manchester, with this part of its business passing over to the new owner later this month. The sale includes all but two of the existing Finglands coach fleet and all staff employed in the operation are being offered jobs at Bullocks under their […]
Perrymans on the path to expansion Perrymans Buses has expanded its services with a new depot using funding from the Bank of Scotland. The investment comes in the operator’s 40th year of business. It sees the company retain route 67 and the acquisition of route 60 (Galashiels, Duns and Berwick), route 51 and 52 (linking […]
We’ve always told you that Bus & Coach Buyer and our monthly sister publication, Coach Tours UK, have the best weekly circulation figures of any weekly bus and coach industry publication and it has always been true. In the past we verified the figures through a third party based on the number of issues we […]
Stanford Coachworks are holding an Expo at the Brands Hatch Racing Circuit in Kent on Tuesday 15 October from 09.30 to 16.00. At the event Stanford will have on show a wide range of the products that they produce including accessible minibuses, luxury minicoaches, up market tour buses, campers, ambulances and much more. For those […]
Preston Bus Station has become a Grade II listed building. The move means the New Brutalist construction will not be demolished as part of plans to build a new shopping centre. The decision to remove the building had come in December 2012 on the basis that it costs £300,000 a year to maintain and is […]