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Postponed Tavistock day follows Royal Blue Run

Heavy drifting snow caused The Thames Valley & Great Western...

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FLEET IN FOCUS

HIGH PEAK BUSES Optare Versa 780 (YJ62 FPK) operating Peaks...

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Latest listings for First Bus fleets

ALAN MILLAR

Title: 2018 First Bus Handbook Editors: Stuart Martin & Bill...

ALAN MILLAR
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Optare wins first orders for its four-year-old Metrodecker

Reading Buses has applied Green Line livery to 899 (YJ16 DFG),...

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D&G’s 130 fails to take off against Arriva

D&G Bus’s complementary service to Arriva’s Sapphire 130...

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Bus station with public park for Stockport

Greater Manchester Combined Authority has agreed plans for a...

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Spain’s CAF buys Solaris

One of five opportunity charged electric Solaris Urbino 12s operated...

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Low-hanging trees and cabling postpone conversions

New Metroline VMH2458 (LK18 AKU), an MCV EvoSeti-bodied Volvo...

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They’re red double-deckers… whichever way you view them

Such is the association of London with its red double-deckers...

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Why are two Coastliner seats low back?

Last week I took a trip on one of the new Enviro400 MMC double-deckers...

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Paladin back in ABC red

Making its debut in original livery at the Keighley Bus Museum...

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THE PEAK DISTRICT

Former Arriva regional managing director BOB HIND has been back...

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Contactless Stagecoach Enviro400 MMC in Oxford

REVIEWS – MODELS OF THE MONTH Vehicle: Stagecoach Alexander...

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Stagecoach poised to begin autonomous vehicle trial

Stagecoach says it is only weeks away from announcing details...

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Lothian to return to West Lothian in August

Lothian Country 928 (SN09 CVO), a Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied...

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Ulsterbus coins Urby name for Belfast commuter belt

Urby branding and revised livery on Ulsterbus 3100 (JGZ 3100),...

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Top exec quits over Swiss PostAuto scandal

Swiss Post chief executive Susanne Ruoff has resigned after managers...

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Metroline borrows as it awaits Hampstead Solos

PICTURE: MARK LYONS Metroline took over operation of Hampstead...

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Politicians are world’s worst transport planners

You write These are letters pages and the views expressed...

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Alpine’s Tiger Cubs and untangling the two Lyles

July Buses again provided interesting reading. I particularly...

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Huddersfield trolleybuses commemorated after 50 years

PICTURE: GRAHAM CRAWSHAW Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum celebrated...

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A 60-year celebration of a city’s Atlanteans

Stewart J. Brown

Title: Glasgow Atlanteans Author: Phil Halewood Publisher:...

Stewart J. Brown
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DID YOU CATCH IT? Catch the Bus Week launched in Westminster, but what was the message for the rest of Britain?

COMMENTwith ALAN MILLAR

Given this minister’s track record for missing industry events...

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Northamptonshire braced for several withdrawals

Most subsidised bus services in Northamptonshire will end on...

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A Pick Me Up for Oxford

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 976 (BU18 YRT) operating a PickMeUp journey...

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Charles Evans, former Lothian MD

OBITUARY Charles Evans, who headed Lothian Region Transport...

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Double-deck EVs for two routes

MARK LYONS

Metroline orders 68 Enviro400s and Metrodeckers for 2019 ...

MARK LYONS
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A souvenir bus that lacks bus souvenirs

Martin Bensley, our man in Berlin, was on holiday in Malta recently...

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Councils waste public money through lack of route promotion

Rick Zaple (You Write, June) is right to be concerned about lack...

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GVVT celebrates 60 years of Atlanteans

Visiting vehicles helped the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust celebrate...