I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for the gold edged invitation with the same portcullis emblem you used to get on the back of an old thrupenny bit that indicates a call to the House of Commons. There’s something about walking past the spot where Charles 1st faced his Parliament and more recently […]
Overall performance for the Go-Ahead Group was described as ‘good’ by its Group Chief Executive, David Brown, in a pre-close trading update for the year ending 28 June 2014. In the company’s deregulated bus business, solid underlying growth in revenue and passenger journeys continued into the fourth quarter. The segment experienced growth in both commercial […]
The project was funded thanks to a £750,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and forms part of the museum’s ‘Year of the Bus’ and First World War commemorations; ‘Goodbye Piccadilly – from the Home Front to the Western Front’. This was the double decker’s inaugural public appearance since the restoration by London Transport Museum […]
Transport Technology Systems David Cummings, a Director at Transport Technology Systems (TTS), believes the bus and coach CCTV market is ‘quite big’ at the moment, driven by insurance, with equipment fitted as a way of keeping premiums down. He finds more cameras are now being installed on coaches, which are not usually on the receiving […]
A small number of PCVs have regularly participated in the Festival and organiser Ashley Lovering saw the opportunity for a specific area of the event where Welsh coach operators could promote themselves, their vehicles and services on offer. The area chosen was the grassed hard standing in front of Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum, on one […]
In previous years there have sometimes been complete rail vehicles, but this time there were only some small scale models. Perhaps that was why the exhibition appeared smaller than before. Another factor may have been an exhibition in Bordeaux last November at which a significant number of Euro6 buses were launched. European manufacturers have spent […]
I visited the plant last month where I was hosted by Dr. Ulrich Hesselmann, Head of Mercedes-Benz Minibus and Head of Sales & Marketing, Mark Freymueller. Flight delays on the way meant that I missed the main press conference but they kindly took the trouble to go through the contents of it with me the following […]
Electric powered P&R York is renowned for its Park and Ride sites, of which there are now six with this newest facility. The opening of this latest 600 vehicle capacity site at Poppleton Bar, just off the A59, now sees all A roads to the city covered by a Park and Ride facility. All are […]