Surrey-based Wattsway Travel bought its electric Yutong coach after securing a six-figure funding package from Paragon Bank, via broker Stoke Park Finance. The operator has acquired a 53-seat Yutong TCe12, which offers a range in excess of 200 miles at a full charge. The vehicle will be primarily used to service contracts for schools in […]
Face coverings will no longer be a condition of carriage on TfL services from 24 February. TfL says it has considered a variety of factors in making this decision, including the shift in the Government’s approach towards living with the virus and decreasing infection rates in London. It has also considered robust evidence about the […]
With ridership on TfL’s service 63 between Kings Cross and Honor Oak and the N36 night bus approaching pre-pandemic levels, the route is receiving a further boost with the deployment of 29 new ADL/BYD Enviro 400EV zero-emission electric double-deck buses. Not only are these ‘green,’ they are arguably the most passenger-friendly buses yet introduced in […]
Ayrshire-based Keenan of Ayr Coach Travel has entered liquidation. Operated by husband and wife, Jamie and Sandra Keenan, the company went into liquidation earlier this month. It follows over 60 years of coach hire provision to its area. According to press reports, staff were stunned at finding they would lose their jobs as a result […]
In conjunction with the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) recruitment week, the Reading Buses Group is currently recruiting coach drivers for its Newbury & District operation. It is hoping that the CPT week-long initiative which started yesterday (Monday February 21) will help to encourage more people to consider a career in the bus and coach […]
Reading Buses has added more journeys to its Green Line 703 route serving Heathrow airport. Green Line 703 connects Bracknell with Heathrow T5 via Windsor, Slough and Colnbrook running hourly, seven days a week. Two new morning journeys, from Slough to Heathrow, have been introduced at 3.26am and 4.26am. An additional late journey from Heathrow […]
Greater Manchester’s clean air leaders will meet next week (February 28) to consider the steps towards a new plan for a CAZ, after being granted a delay to the original 30 May date. Greater Manchester had been legally bound to implement a charging category C Clean Air Zone but appealed the deadline. Its plan exempted […]
I am old enough to recall a report by, I think, Shearings saying that the coach industry is the Cinderella of travel something wonderful which creeps under the radar of many people. It was quite clear to most of us that nothing much had changed so far as government is concerned in the dark days […]