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Latest news written with authority

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South Yorkshire’s services over festive holiday period

Your news item last month ‘Nobler exceptions to another busless...

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FLEETNEWS SCOTLAND

Where to send your reports ››››› Scottish reports should...

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THE FASTEST ROUTEMASTERS

More than 50 years after they were built, nearly half of the...

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MUSIC TO THE EARS

with ALAN MILLAR

COMMENT The report suggests that features of successful...

with ALAN MILLAR
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Alan Piatt, expert on Brighton’s buses

OBITUARY Alan Piatt, author and longtime Brighton bus enthusiast,...

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Lancashire to roll out more new routes by March

More new routes have been rolled out in Lancashire, as the county...

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Daimler ends MCI’s Setra sales agreement

Daimler Buses has set up a new partnership to sell German-built...

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Permanent post for Royal Mail minibus

The editor’s sideways view of the bus scene Please send...

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Does style triumph over substance of Stagecoach’s Plaxton Elites?

Stagecoach East Scotland 53813 (YX66 WOD), a Plaxton Elite-bodied...

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Plymouth group relocates to superior site

The Plymouth City Transport Preservation Group has completed...

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Stagecoach’s UK fleet is brought up to date

ALAN MILLAR

Woolybus has entered the new year with the first of its fleet...

ALAN MILLAR
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WHY MAIDSTONE BOUGHT BEDFORDS

ALAN PRICE

When most of its contemporaries invested in heavy duty longlife...

ALAN PRICE
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Stephensons closure prompts scramble to replace N Yorks routes

The toll of failed independents gained another name on 20 January...

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Arriva and Carousel back as One

Arriva and Go-Ahead owned Carousel Buses have settled their differences,...

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Volvo to test driverless 7900s in Singapore

GLOBAL NEWS Volvo is teaming up with a university in Singapore...

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Last Scania singles to go

MARK LYONS

293 changes operator again, more frequency reductions, fewer...

MARK LYONS
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Dewsbury’s magnetic attraction

Andrew Stopford is another of you to cast his eyes upwards in...

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Retired VR was a far from standard model

It was interesting to see the former Maidstone&District Bristol...

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In Fleet News this month

FLEETNEWS ENGLAND&WALES A-B BODY TYPE SEATING CAPACITY...

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Tilling times in Sussex by the sea

ALAN MILLAR

DVD On 31 October 1947, Brighton Hove & District withdrew...

ALAN MILLAR
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GOLDEN YEAR FOR MBF

BOB HEATHCOTE

As the Model Bus Federation celebrates its 50th anniversary this...

BOB HEATHCOTE
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Reading pumps up gas, revives Thames Valley

Reading Buses is expanding its fleet of gas-fuelled vehicles...

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RATP sweeps the board

MARK LYONS

Gains for London United and London Sovereign, border cut for...

MARK LYONS
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Red individuality of Hinckleybus should be kept alive

With my interest aroused by George Collins’s article on Hinckleybus...

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The last decade of London’s red and green RTs and RFs

ALAN MILLAR

Title: London Buses 1970-1980 Authors: Matthew Wharmby & John...

ALAN MILLAR
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ZAPPING THROUGH LEEDS

STEPHEN MORRIS

STEPHEN MORRIS a has been trying out Transdev Blazefield’s...

STEPHEN MORRIS
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Transdev set to acquire municipal Rosso

Rosso 124 (LF52 USY), a 2002 Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo...

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Regal retreat leaves gaps in Essex provision

Regal Busways 206 (YJ60 KBX), an Optare Solo M780SE, in Kelvedon...

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PICTUREVIEW Fabulous Flamingo

STUART MONTGOMERY

The flamingo colony at Edinburgh Zoo is advertised on Lothian...

STUART MONTGOMERY
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New Year debut for V8 Seddon

The Coventry running day on New Year’s Day was the first outing...