Stagecoach have further increased their Gold brand by introducing two new services across Chester, Liverpool and the Wirral. £3m has been invested in 18 ADL Enviro 300s which will only operate on upgraded Quality Bus Partnership routes 1 and 2 that operate between Liverpool, Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port, Chester Zoo and Chester. MD for Stagecoach Merseyside […]
Go-Ahead and National Express have been shortlisted in the IR Society’s Best Practice Awards. They have both been nominated into the ‘Best Annual Report’ category. Whilst Go-Ahead is up for the ‘Best use of digital communication’ and ‘Best overall communication of company investment proposition’ awards. The winners will be announced on 24 November at an […]
Employees at Xplore Dundee (National Express’s Dundee bus operation) have been offered free health checks as National Express’s Health Bus initiative visits the Scottish garage. It involves staff being able to have confidential appointments on site with an independent health professional. A range of checks are offered and advice on various health-related matters is dispensed, […]
Ten minutes’ chat was all it took to inspire Belle Vue MD, Phil Hitchen, to make Francis House Children’s Hospice the company’s charity of the year. It was 90-year-old war veteran, Harold Addie, he spoke to during a trip to Normandy with the Stockport and District Normandy Veterans Association to France to mark the 70th […]
Edwards Coaches is to support comedian, Rhod Gilbert’s trek to Patagonia. The operator is to provide free coach travel for him and his party to Heathrow. The trek is to mark the 150th anniversary of the initial Welsh settlement in the area and is in support of cancer charity, Velindre. The comedian is familiar with […]
Political and business representatives from Transport for the North (TfN) have met with Lord Adonis, the Chair of the new National Infrastructure Commission, as part of his two day fact finding visit to the north of England. TfN brings together local authorities in the region to ensure they deliver unified communication to the Government. The […]
Aberdeen’s hydrogen production and bus refuelling station, the UK’s first such facility, has reached its 1,000th refuel. Based at Aberdeen City Council’s Kittybrewster depot, the station opened in March and provides fuel for Europe’s largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses running in the city. The equipment is owned and operated by BOC, a Member of […]
Despite its best efforts Iveco has always had to take second place to Mercedes-Benz in the world of mass produced panel vans, particularly here in the UK. This stems I believe from a perception amongst British operators that it lagged behind Mercedes-Benz in terms of design and specification. It also had a poor reputation in […]