trentbarton’s red arrow coach service between Derby and Nottingham celebrated its 21st birthday with balloons, birthday breakfasts and special birthday beer for passengers at Derby Bus Station and Nottingham’s Victoria station. The flagship service now runs every ten minutes at peak times between the two city centres. Over a million passengers ride on red arrow […]
Shearings Leisure Group’s CEO, Denis Wormwell, is to leave the business at the end of the year to pursue a non-executive career. Group CFO and Deputy CEO, Gary Speakman, is to lead the business until a successor is announced. Denis joined the business almost a decade ago and led the management buyout of the business […]
Before every Euro Bus Expo show, Volvo Bus holds a press event to review the previous year, look ahead to the future as well as outlining what will be exhibited at the Birmingham show. This year’s, held near Ascot, presented a very positive message. As MD, Nick Page outlined, it is usually the case that […]
After IAA and Innotrans, I spent a few days exploring Berlin and sampling various aspects of its transport system. Late in the final afternoon there, I finally tracked down the prototype VDL Citea double-decker working on the M19 through the heart of what was West Berlin. After a pleasant half hour sitting enjoying coffee and […]
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has laid out detailed proposals for delivering the Central London Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in 2019, a year ahead of schedule. He has also set out plans for extending the ULEZ to the North and South Circular roads in 2019 or later and started the formal consultation necessary to introduce […]
Arriva has introduced 18 ADL Enviro400s to Southend, representing an investment of £3.8m. The vehicles have free 4G Wi-Fi, USB charging points and 73 seats upholstered in E-Leather. They will run between Rayleigh, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh, Westcliff, Southend, Southchurch, Bournes Green, Thorpe Bay and Shoeburyness. They feature ‘stop-start’ technology that reduces fuel consumption by stopping […]
Go-Ahead owned Salisbury Reds has launched ‘The Stonehenge Tour’, which runs from Salisbury Rail Station and the city centre, through to Stonehenge itself and then onto Old Sarum on the return journey. The firm has invested in new ADL Enviro400 MMCs, fitted with individual headphones for the passenger commentary that was developed in close consultation […]
Mellor Coachcraft has had an amazing year. It started by building on the previous year’s work of introducing 100% fully engineered and productionised standards to its Orion range of up to 22 passenger low floor directly wheelchair accessible minibuses, particularly the increasingly popular service bus version. Then they introduced the Maxima, a high capacity minibus […]