Specialist bank DF Capital is bringing new finance offerings to the bus and coach market. The provider of finance to dealer and manufacturing businesses across the UK has enhanced its bus and coach stock finance product. It is introducing new features designed to directly respond to the needs of today’s dealers and rental operators, helping […]
Management at Robin Hood Travel are retiring and closing the business. Staff at the Staffordshire-based business finish on 5 August 2025, with vehicles and garage contents to be auctioned on Saturday 30 August at its premises (Highway Garage, Macclesfield Road, Rudyard, Staffordshire, ST13 8PS) by Malcolmn Harrison Auctions. According to a letter sent to staff, […]
Cambridgeshire-based Whippet reports a reliable performance from its Wisdom Sigma 12 buses. The operator has marked two years of zero-emission bus operation with them on its Universal service in Cambridge. The route’s fleet of Sigma 12 buses, built by Chinese manufacturer Wisdom and originally supplied in the UK by Mellor, have clocked up 0.5m miles […]
Stagecoach Bluebird has been granted a Royal Warrant by His Majesty The King. The three-year warrant recognises the Stagecoach subsidiary’s long-standing provision of coach hire services to Balmoral Estate in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The awarding of the Royal Warrant celebrates not only the Aberdeen-based company’s excellence in transport services but also its commitment to supporting local […]
Shortly after 3pm yesterday, a Bee Network bus collided with an aqueduct on Barton Lane in Eccles. The bus was on the Stagecoach Manchester-operated 100 route and in service at the time of the incident. North West Ambulance Service dispatched a number of resources, including ten emergency ambulances, advanced paramedics, its Hazard Area Response Team (HART) […]
Two years in the making, Wrightbus has given a first glimpse of its anticipated 6×2 zero-emission bus. Efficiency and durability tests will be completed during the summer, with a demonstrator heading out to a customer in Hong Kong for 12 months. There are already orders for the vehicle lined up for the Far East and […]
Sharpes of Nottingham is to specify Allison fully-automatic transmissions on future executive coach orders. The decision follows the company’s positive experience of the Allison T525R transmission in a Van Hool TX21 Altano. The family business has worked with Van Hool coaches since buying its first three Van Hools 21 years ago. Sharpes’ latest order, a […]
Northstar has launched two new express bus services. The X22 will run from Chester-le-Street to the Metrocentre in just 24 minutes, serving all stops through Barley Mow and Birtley. The X43 will travel from Stanley to the Metrocentre in 28 minutes, calling at Tanfield Lea, Tantobie, Burnopfield and Swalwell Bank in Whickham. Both routes are […]