National Express West Midlands has launched a £4m new fleet of 18 Euro6 ADL Enviro400s. The vehicles feature extra leg room, free Wi-Fi, high backed leather seats and next stop announcements. The 18 new vehicles, which are running on the 900 and 957 services passing Birmingham airport, should also benefit from road improvements. Birmingham and […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) has won the Excellence in Science and Technology Award in the Nottingham Post Business Awards. The accolade recognised the operator’s investment in its real-time technology and Control Room. Manned 24/7, the facility has enabled the operator to make significant enhancements to the running of its bus network. It allows customers to […]
Chris Conway has been appointed as Translink’s new Group Chief Executive. Chris is currently MD of Tata Steel’s sales and distribution business in Ireland; previously he was vice president of operations in Europe for Nortel and MD of Nortel (NI) Ltd. He is Chairman of Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas and a member of the Board […]
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Oldham Council are to work together to deliver a project exploring new ways of providing rural communities with more effective, specialist transport links. To be undertaken in Saddleworth, Oldham, the project has secured an £81,000 grant from the government’s Total Transport Pilot Fund. The ‘Oldham Shared Transport’ project will […]
Reading Buses are claiming a new land speed record after ‘Bushound’, their standard CNG/biomethane powered low floor Scania ADL city bus, achieved a top speed of 80.78 miles per hour and an average 76.785 mph over a full lap of the banked circular track at Millbrook near Bedford. No major modifications were made to the […]
In the short time it has been in existence, EVM has carved a reputation for its innovative and well designed minibus and minicoach conversions of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van range; especially the five-tonne 513, 516 and 519 models. They are practical designs manufactured to a high quality standard. EVM are particularly well known for their […]
Busmark, CILT’s (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport’s) new benchmarking scheme was officially introduced to the industry for the first time at the recent ALBUM conference. You may have a first impression of it from our coverage of that event, now Chris Peat has contacted Austin Birks, CILT’s Chair, Bus and Coach Forum, to find […]
Just over a decade after starting in business, Crayford based Jay & Kay Coach Tours have a fleet of six modern coaches, four of which were bought new, and are having to further expand their offering to keep up with demand. They don’t do school contracts, they don’t work for tour companies with no coaches, […]