A number of professionals from the bus and coach industry received titles in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Ballymena featured strongly with Wrights Group Chairman and CEO, Mark Nodder, receiving an OBE for services to the economy in Northern Ireland and Wrightbus’ William John (Jack) Kernohan receiving an MBE for services to the bus […]
Following a competitive tender process, First York has won the five year contract to operate the University of York bus services from August this year. The newly named UoY66 high frequency service will run from 2 August between York Railway Station, the city centre, the University and York Sport Village via Lakeside Way. The contract […]
Irizar and Go-Ahead have signed an agreement for two Irizar i2e electric buses to be put into operation in London from the end of July. The buses will go on routes 507 (Waterloo station to Victoria Station) and 521 (Waterloo Station to London Bridge Station). The 12m buses feature a continuous low floor and two […]
Stagecoach owned megabus.com is introducing a new network of services in Italy. The operator is to link 13 locations in the country: Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Verona, Padua, Siena, Genoa, Sarzana (La Spezia) and Pisa. Fares on all journeys start from €1. The addition of these services takes the number of destinations […]
Overall trading for FirstGroup in the year ending 31 March 2015 was reported to be in line with management expectations. It achieved revenue of £6,050.7m (2014: £6,717.4m), down 9.9%. However, its EBITDA rose 7.7% to £624.4m (2014: £579.8m) and its adjusted operating profit was £303.6m (2014: £268m), a 13.3% increase. First’s UK Bus division achieved […]
Most manufacturers and dealers have opted to move up in size in order to provide a replacement for their Mercedes-Benz Vario based minibus ranges but the associated Moseley group of companies have taken a different approach, deciding to offer both smaller and larger options. The smaller alternative is the Sitcar Voyager bodied Iveco New Daily, […]
PC Coaches has added an Optare MetroCity and two Solos to its fleet. The Solos will operate on the Lincoln Castle Shuttle, Lincoln’s first Park&Ride service. This will be transporting visitors to view the 800 year old Magna Carta in Lincoln Castle. The Euro5 9m Solos seat up to 30 and the 11.5m Euro5 MetroCity […]
Galleon Travel of Roydon, Harlow in Essex has taken delivery of a new VDL Synergy double deck coach. The 14m vehicle is fitted with 86 seats and a ski box. To an executive specification, the coach will be fitted with a Bosch Multi Media system and USB points to each seat. Pictured is Steve Peck […]