Newly launched staycation holiday specialist Caledonian Leisure has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Gary Speakman as non-executive group chairman. Speakman joins Caledonian Leisure having held senior Board roles, principally across the leisure, travel and retail sectors, for over 30 years. More recently, between 2012 and early 2019, he held the roles of […]
Giles Fearnley, First Bus Managing Director, has decided to retire. He will be succeeded by Janette Bell who joins First Group in October. Giles has been Managing Director of First Bus since February 2011. Since then, he has led a transformation of our customer offering including greater digitisation as well as investment in fleets and […]
Doug Jack, the widely respected bus and coach industry consultant, has died aged 78. He passed away peacefully in the early hours of Wednesday, September 2 after a short illness. Doug’s passion for the bus and coach industry began at an early age and remained with him throughout his life. He was a familiar face […]
Adventure Coachlines, the new name for the coaching arm of NAT Group, has launched a series of day trips to coincide with the upcoming half-term. The move aims to restore confidence in coach travel while providing travellers with a low cost and convenient way to sightsee across the UK. Adventure Coachlines is to run two […]
Nottingham-based Roadgas Ltd has been appointed as an international distributor for the Compac, NZ range of gas refuelling dispensers for the UK and Ireland. Roadgas supplies gas fuelling infrastructure, notably for Nottingham City Transport’s (NCT’s) gas buses, as well as to other bus operations across the country. For more than 35 years, New Zealand-based Compac has […]
London Transport Museum has reopened its Covent Garden doors for the first time after closing temporarily due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Museum’s Hidden London exhibition in the Global Gallery is also back open. Revealing the mysteries of the Capital’s ‘abandoned’ Underground stations, this atmospheric exhibition delves into the secret wartime histories of Down Street […]
FirstGroup employees participated in Boycott your Bed with UK Charity Partner Action for Children. The company raised just under £5,000 for vulnerable children and families across the UK. For the past 22 years, Action for Children has organised Byte Night: a corporate sleep out event, which encourages individuals to sleep rough for a night to […]
Volvo is to supply 31 of its electric buses to Bodö, a town in northern Norway. When the vehicles and their charging infrastructure are operational in July 2021, they will be the most northerly based electric buses in the world, as well as the first to enter operation north of the Arctic Circle. Of the […]