Optare hosted the latest meeting of CILT’s (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport’s) Busmark group. The tour of the manufacturer’s Sherburn-in-Elmet factory was the highlight of the gathering of members from the organisation’s benchmarking club for the coach and bus industry. Whisking attendees to the plant from the venue of the meeting was an Optare […]
PLEASE NOTE: To see all the images in a gallery, click on the title image above The objective was straightforward enough, get from Cockfosters to Heathrow following the Piccadilly line. Simple, should take about an hour and a half, except that we decided to do it by TfL bus. From the team that brought you […]
Municipal bus operations could return to Scotland, according to a report in the Scotsman newspaper. This would remove a legislative stumbling block for Aberdeen Labour group’s plans to buy First’s Aberdeen operation (see B&CB 1534, 14 June 2019). MSPs have voted to lift a ban on creating municipally-owned bus services, proposing to amend the Scottish […]
Transdev has placed orders worth £3.5m for British-built buses. The operator has ordered 21 new buses from ADL and Wrightbus. The Yorkshire and Lancashire operator’s 2019 bus purchases include five Wright Streetdeck double-deckers featuring luxury interiors for the Cityzap express service between Leeds and York. There will also be 13 ADL Enviro200 MMC single-deckers for […]
Bus Users UK has published a ten-point plan to reduce the decline in rural bus services. ‘Rural buses: reversing the decline’ calls for reform of the Traffic Commissioners to have regard for the interests of bus users, modernisation of the role of the DVSA, for local authorities to take a more consumer-led approach to transport, […]
The Peterborough Bus Rally and Commercial Vehicle Show has been called off. It was planned for Sunday 16 June at Sacrewell Farm and Country Centre and has been cancelled due to the recent rainy weather. A statement on the event’s website said: “The recent heavy rain has resulted in the rally site and an alternative […]
Plaxton is to host its own rally for the first time at its Scarborough factory on 8 August 2019. The ticket only event is being held in celebration of the company’s heritage and will showcase Plaxton’s historic and current product line up. There are already 35 of 60 coaches entered, it promises to be an […]
I first went to Marshalls Coaches of Leighton Buzzard some 20 years ago or more, when Fred Marshall was master of all he surveyed. The occasion was the delivery of an entire fleet of new Beulas Eurorider coaches which, at the time, were the coaches with the ‘wow factor’ and, if I remember correctly, leather […]