Reaseheath College and First Bus has established what has been described as the UK’s first bus and coach engineering academy. The new facility in Nantwich is delivering tailored training to First Bus apprentice engineering technicians in the maintenance of next generation, zero-emission transport vehicles. Reaseheath has invested £50,000 into state-of-the-art training equipment and First Bus […]
Go-Ahead-owned Go North West is offering free travel on its buses for serving members of the armed forces and veterans on Remembrance Day (11 November) and on Remembrance Sunday (14 November). To travel for free on these dates, all veterans and current forces personnel need to do is to show their forces ID to the […]
As the COP26 UN climate-change conference continues, Yutong is marking a green milestone moment. The Chinese manufacturer’s zero-emission PCVs have travelled 26.2 billion zero-emission kilometres globally since its electric vehicles were launched in 1999. “…this latest achievement by Yutong is particularly timely with the company marking over 26 billion kilometres travelled in its zero-emission electric […]
Sittingbourne-based Chalkwell Coach Hire’s MD, Roland Eglinton, has joined the not-for-profit organisation Women in Transport. Women in Transport aims to empower women to maximise their potential. The organisation addresses the disparity of women’s representation in the transport industry’s workforce. Its website cites the figures of women making up 47% of the workforce, while only 20% […]
Arriva is to cease operating Green Line services between Hemel Hempstead and London Victoria. The last day of service is set to be 4 December 2021. Before Covid-19, service 758 was already experiencing a decline in passengers numbers, leading to operations being ran out of our Luton depot. While this operational move did help with […]
Mellor is to launch an all-new range of single-deck battery electric buses for 2022, as the company aims to move into previously untapped bus markets. The new multi-variant range is expected to include an extensive choice of lengths, widths, operating ranges and gross vehicle weights, with further details due to be announced in December 2021. […]
Statistics from the DfT charting bus use for the year ending March 2021 show the number of local bus passenger journeys in England fell by 2.5 billion or 61% to 1.57 billion. The DfT’s report on this says the fall can largely be attributed to nationwide movement restrictions introduced throughout 2020/21 in response to the […]
Northern Ireland’s Infrastructure Minister, Nichola Mallon, has unveiled the first of 80 electric double-deckers due to be in passenger service in spring 2022. The vehicles are part of her £74million investment for 100 zero-emission buses, which also includes 20 hydrogen-fuelled buses and a programme of associated infrastructure works. The announcement follows Mallon’s announcement of funding […]