Bedfordshire-based Grant Palmer Ltd is to replace bus routes withdrawn by Herberts Travel. From Tuesday 28 May 2024, Grant Palmer is to operate replacement services for routes 85, 85A, 188, 189 and 190. The new routes will see the operaotr’s Biggleswade depot expand further, having opened at the start of this year. Services 85 and […]
Mellor Bus and Treka Bus are forming a strategic partnership. The team-up is aimed at synergising their product offerings, sales and account management teams to enhance value to customers. This collaboration comes as a result of a shared vision to better serve customers and optimise business operations. This strategic alignment is intended to enable both […]
Two operators have joined up with Swindon Borough Council for a special event to help ensure accessibility to the region’s bus services. Go-Ahead Group-owned Swindon’s Bus Company and Stagecoach West have taken part in a session designed to make boarding buses a simple and straightforward process for people with learning disabilities, and for those with […]
A recent webinar gave coach tour operators the opportunity to explore the benefits of RHA’s collaboration with ABTA which launched on 3 April 2024. Referring to ‘a comprehensive service’ moderator Phil Snowden, Membership Director at RHA, described how the skills and strengths of both organisations were being brought together to deliver preferential access to mutual […]
The Go-Ahead Group has acquired four regional coach companies. It is acquiring Procters Coaches in North Yorkshire; Compass Royston serving Stockton, Middlesbrough and Teesside; Esk Valley operating in North and East Riding of Yorkshire and Fourway Coaches in West Yorkshire. This sees Go-Ahead take on 200 new employees and a fleet of 140 vehicles across […]
City Sightseeing Oxford provided an open-top bus tour to give Widowed and Young’s Oxfordshire Big Picnic guests an extra boost this year with a tour. More than 20 members of the charity Widowed and Young gathered for the annual picnic event in support of Oxfordshire’s widowed community. Oxford Bus Company, owners of City Sightseeing Oxford, […]
Britain’s buses could be the first to be totally net-zero if a timetable of support for this is introduced, according to a report by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). SMMT highlights that bus manufacturers have invested significantly in green innovation with some 13 different zero-emission models now available in the UK. More […]
BYD has launched an all-new electric double-decker bus, the BYD BD11, which offers 532kWh of batteries with a theoretical range of 400 miles at its claimed 0.7kWh per kilometre. Introduced by at the London Bus Museum by Leon Daniels OBE, the 10.9-metre ‘decker in London spec is already rumoured to have orders for 100 vehicles. […]