Danish company Umove A/S, has placed an order for 55 VDL Citea LLEs. The buses will go in to operation in December, with 40 in service in Copenhagen and the remaining 15 to the city of Helsingør. VDL Bus & Coach will also provide maintenance and repair of the buses during the contract period. Features […]
The guys at The TAS Partnership have come up trumps again. They’ve just published another objective, factual report that cuts through the prejudices and myths surrounding deregulation and its impact on bus travel. ‘The PTEs 1975-1985 – An Analysis of Performance’ has been compiled from Annual Reports and Accounts of National Bus Company subsidiaries and […]
Sales Manager at Koller Engineering, Andrew Nurrish, is to take part in the Prudential London to Surrey bike ride in support of charity, Phab Kids. He will be riding the 100 mile cycle challenge on 2 August 2015. The cause inspires and supports children and adults with and without disabilities to make more of life […]
TAS has published a report on the cost implications of providing a London-style bus network in the whole of England. It estimates that the full annual cost of delivering this could be as high as £3.2bn a year. This would be the result of using London-style procurement, revenue risk, vehicle and service standards and offering […]
A celebratory event marking 100 years since the incorporation of Yelloway Motor Services of Rochdale has been held recently. The two day event saw four AEC Reliances, which had entered service with Yelloway between 1961 and 1979, displayed outside Rochdale Town Hall. They were shown alongside present day coaches operated by Yelloway Coaches of Oldham. […]
Group Finance Director at Go-Ahead Group, Keith Down, will be leaving the Group to join Dunelm Group Plc as Chief Financial Officer. The Board has begun a process to appoint a successor. Keith will be staying with Go-Ahead until the end of the year to enable time for a suitable candidate to be found and […]
As part of Epsom Coaches celebrations of 95 years since its founding in 1920, the company undertook to recreate its first ever journey from Epsom to Brighton. The coach was driven by Project Manager, Peter Minnette, who took along MD of Epsom Coaches, Steve Whiteway, himself a former coach driver, to tell all 48 travellers […]
MD of West Midlands based Parrys International, Dave Parry, has warned the future of continental coach holidays is being put at risk by the huge numbers of regular coach passengers now taking cruises from the UK. He said that since the introduction of cruise ships based in Southampton for the summer season there has been […]