A number of people involved in the transport industry were recognised in the New Years Honours. Amongst them were Stephen Leonard Gooding, lately Director General, Roads, Traffic and Local Group, DfT and Clare Moriarty, lately Director General, Rail Executive, DfT, who both received a Companion of the Order of the Bath accolade for services to […]
Between Thursday 14 January and Sunday 17 January 2016, CPT has warned that a number of roads will be closed in London for the London Lumiere light show. Taking place around the West End and King’s Cross, it will mean full road closures will be in place from 16.30 to 23.30 each night. It affects […]
Torotrak Group and Wrightbus have completed the in-service trial of a Wrightbus StreetLite fitted with Torotrak’s Flybrid mechanical kinetic energy recovery system (KERS). The trial was conducted with Arriva on a standard route in Gillingham, Kent from March 2015. According to its manufacturer, the test successfully demonstrated the performance of the Flybrid KERS under real […]
Floods plagued many operations over the festive period. Press reports abounded about buses’ trials and tribulations during the challenging weather. One of the operators that faced adverse conditions on several fronts was Arriva’s Yorkshire Tiger, which experienced flooding in the vicinity of one of its depots and a damaging fire at another, According to its […]
DfT has announced the winners of funding for the fitment of technology to cut harmful emissions on 439 buses in England. The £7m of the Clean Bus Technology Fund 2015 has been distributed to 18 local authorities to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions in pollution hotspots. The money has been awarded to: Birmingham (Centro) (27 buses, […]
Both instances are typical of her hands on, get stuck in approach to life which sees her put as much effort into the causes she loves within the local community as into the highly successful businesses she has built up and runs. Hard work started for Margaret at an early age. Her mother and father […]
Renowned artist, Bradley Hutchings, was commissioned to capture two periods of the ‘golden age of coach travel’: one from the 1930s and the other from the 1950s. Bradley was able to create the two artworks using old photographs of the Empress coaches from the private collection of Empress’ Stephen Dine. They feature the operator’s first […]
A steel splint has been installed to repair the cracked section of the bridge. Splints continue to be fitted at another seven truss end links as a precautionary measure. This work can be safely completed with the bridge open and overnight lane restrictions. The bridge should reopen to HGVs in mid-February. Stagecoach bus and coach […]