Nottingham City Council is continuing to support bus services on important routes after securing a government grant through the Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) scheme. Routes set to benefit include: The 49 which operates to Queens Drive Park-and-Ride and Boots Enterprise Zone – funding provides buses every 20 minutes. The NCT 3 route which now […]

CPT’s inaugural North of England Ride and Drive in Newcastle is planned to take place on 9 March. This new event follows the success of CPT’s Ride and Drive event held in summer in North Weald, Essex, which has been established since 2012. Like its southern counterpart, the event will feature several vehicle suppliers offering […]

Alexander Dennis’ Enviro400EV electric double-decker is currently the most efficient battery-electric double-decker tested to Zemo Partnership standards to date. The work, which was undertaken at UTAC’s approved test facility at Millbrook Proving Ground, confirms an average energy consumption of just 0.67kWh/km across the UK Bus Cycle. This shows the vehicle delivers a 10% efficiency advantage […]

McGill’s Group is entering the coach tourism market with its new Loch Lomond Travel brand. The new coach holiday venture from the Greenock-based business is to provide coach holidays to resorts and attractions all around the UK, working in partnership with quality hotels and destinations. The operation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McGill’s, which is […]

B.A.S.E Coach Sales has sold the first three of a new, high-capacity coach layout based on the Spanish-built Beulas Cygnus. Underpinned by Scania’s powerful K360 chassis, the 12.7-metre coaches heading for AAA Coaches of Edinburgh have 70 Prime Buckingham seats with USBs in a 3+2 configuration and are fully PSVAR equipped with a Hidral wheelchair […]

Preparations for this year’s UK Coach Rally on 13 and 14 April are well underway. The organisers, Coach Displays, have told B&CB that well over half of spaces for vehicle entries to the 68th edition of the Rally have already been taken. Taking place at the Comedy Carpet in Blackpool, a maximum of 55 coaches […]

After 35 years at the Volvo Group, Andy Kunze is passing the baton to Volvo Bus UK & Ireland’s new Service Market Director, Daniel Tanner, as he takes a step back. Daniel’s appointment sees him head a team responsible for maintaining Volvo Buses’ high standards of customer support and overseeing its dealer network, from a […]

Funding for bus services ‘should not be a postcode lottery based on the cancelled HS2 route’, according to the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT). The CPT’s comments are in response to today’s (26 February 2024) news of how the £4.7 billion Local Transport Fund, announced in October, will be allocated across the North and Midlands. […]