Buses Magazine

Buses Magazine

Latest news written with authority

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INSIDE TRACK: After the crisis

JULIAN PEDDLE

The transport industry likes and needs long term planning...

JULIAN PEDDLE
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PRESERVATION UPDATE: MTT and GVVT

MTT and GVVT ready to reveal more of their latest restorations...

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BLACKPOOL 1984

GRAHAM ASHWORTH

A new Plaxton double-decker was among the attractions 36 years ago...

GRAHAM ASHWORTH
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FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND: Government plans ahead for return to normality

The Scottish government set out its plans...

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PICTUREVIEW: Lodekka in the South Hams

WILL SPENCER

In this scene from the September 2015 Vintage Bus Running Day...

WILL SPENCER
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SEEING THE SIGHTS

Open-top operation has continued to thrive...

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FLEET NEWS IRELAND: July 2020

Fleet News Ireland July 2020...

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NOT STANDING STILL

DAVID JUKES

Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic restrictions brought much of the coach industry to a standstill, DAVID JUKES visited Portsmouth City Coaches...

DAVID JUKES
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FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES: July 2020

In Fleet News July 2020...

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FAR EAST POINTER DARTS

Plaxton Pointer-bodied Dennis Darts added further familiarity to the predominantly double-deck scene in Hong Kong...

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FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND: End of the road for David Urquhart Travel

Coach tour operator David Urquhart Travel...

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Buses Magazine July 2020

The full issue in page-turning format

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DON’T MISS THE LONG-TERM GOAL

ALAN MILLAR

With so many minds focused on surviving and ending the coronavirus pandemic...

ALAN MILLAR
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THE BUS ARCHIVE: THE HEALTH EMERGENCY

PHILIP KIRK

PHILIP KIRK describes some of the valuable work that The Bus Archive has been doing...

PHILIP KIRK
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NEW NORMAL OR OLD ORDER?

GAVIN BOOTH

With operators demonstrating their ability to alter their practices to accommodate
greatly reduced numbers of passengers in the coronavirus pandemic...

GAVIN BOOTH
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FLEET IN FOCUS: PILKINGTON BUS

ANDREW JAROSZ

Fleet in Focus July 2020...

ANDREW JAROSZ
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CORNWALL DOES THINGS DIFFERENTLY

CHRISTOPHER CARTER

As the council introduces a supported network with a uniform brand...

CHRISTOPHER CARTER

Shearings and National Holidays in administration

The Specialist Leisure Group and subsidiary companies including Shearings, National Holidays and Caledonian Travel entered administration today and have ceased to trade with immediate effect.

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LOOK IN ON LONDON: Double-deckers to return to the 200

Go-Ahead London General will operate new north London route 456...

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2019 MARKET ANALYSIS: SINGLE-DECK BUS

Alexander Dennis strengthened its dominance of the single-deck bus market...

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EPIDEMIC IN BRIGHTON

Michael Dryhurst

MICHAEL DRYHURST can still recall the pervading smell of disinfectant on the double-deckers he experienced 69 years ago when an epidemic...

Michael Dryhurst
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PAST & PRESENT: RIBBLE IN CARLISLE

In its first months as part of the National Bus Company...

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INSIDE TRACK: Good times will return

PHIL STOCKLEY

By the time you read this, all our lives will have been dominated for two months by coronavirus...

PHIL STOCKLEY
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2019 MARKET ANALYSIS: FEAST BEFORE FAMINE

PAUL HEELS

Exclusively for Buses, PAUL HEELS has again scrutinised the PSV Circle’s monthly newssheets to produce a unique independent analysis...

PAUL HEELS
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FLEET NEWS IRELAND: June 2020

Fleet News Ireland June 2020...

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UNCERTAIN ROAD AHEAD

RHODRI CLARK

RHODRI CLARK discovers that the proposed new legislation for the organisation of bus services in Wales...

RHODRI CLARK
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2019 MARKET ANALYSIS: COACHES

Coach sales grew by 7.3%...

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SCOTLAND’S BERMUDA TRIANGLE

ROY WHYTE

ROY WHYTE samples part of a three-cornered network of connecting rural routes...

ROY WHYTE
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Fleet News England & Wales June 2020

In Fleet News this month...

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LOOK IN ON LONDON: Fares are waived

MARK LYONS

Middle door boarding as Covid-19 claims over 30 bus workers’ lives...

MARK LYONS