Buses Magazine

Buses Magazine

Latest news written with authority

Regular Premium

RALLY CALENDAR UPDATE

Full details of these and other events in 2018 and early 2019...

Regular Premium

FLEETNEWS IRELAND

PAUL SAVAGE & IAN MOLLOY

Where to send your reports Send your reports on Northern Ireland...

PAUL SAVAGE & IAN MOLLOY
Feature Premium

PLAXTON’S LATEST

ALAN MILLAR

Launch orders from Stagecoach have given the UK’s last large...

ALAN MILLAR
Regular Premium

Carousel introduces Chiltern Hundreds, withdraws Reading link

Go-Ahead-owned Carousel Buses revised its interurban network...

Regular Premium

Coastliner 840 voted best for scenery

Yorkshire Coastliner 3637 (BT66 MVW), a Wright Gemini 3-bodied...

Regular Premium

Stephen Le Bras, former Bus Users UK treasurer

Stephen Le Bras, an occasional contributor of letters and photographs...

Regular Premium

Wrightbus confirms first deliveries to Mexico

Wrightbus has followed Alexander Dennis into the Mexican market...

Regular Premium

Vehicle speeds and reliability are improving

Average bus speeds in London increased slightly, to 9.34mph,...

Regular Premium

Cuts to Woking-Heathrow coach link

National Express is to withdraw the first three morning and last...

Regular Premium

Half million investment brings bespoke Citymasters

COVER STORY NEWS In a bold move for a small independent...

Regular Premium

Jones the Oil closes after 120 years

After 120 years, the bus and coach business of Jones Motor Services...

Regular Premium

Stagecoach Oxfordshire MD Martin Sutton to retire

BUS PEOPLE Stagecoach Oxfordshire managing director Martin Sutton...

Regular Premium

Gremlins spoil first electric coach run

The first Flixbus pure electric coach service from Paris to Amiens...

Regular Premium

SHORT HOPS

•CONTACTLESS bankcards now account for around 45% of all pay-asyou-...

Regular Premium

PRESERVATION UPDATE

AEC power in action at GCR One of the longest surviving vehicles...

Feature Premium

DOUBLE-DECK BUS

Reading Buses began taking delivery of 17 Alexander Dennis Enviro400CBG...

Regular Premium

First faces possible takeover bid

NEWS FirstGroup faced an uncertain future as we closed for press...

Regular Premium

Bring your bus to Gaydon

BUSES FESTIBEL Entries are starting to flow in from owners of...

Regular Premium

Big Lemon beats target to raise EV bus funds

The second Optare Solo converted last year to electric traction...

Regular Premium

Dunn Group company takes Custom Bus back into British ownership

Custom Bus, the Australian bodybuilder owned for two years by...

Regular Premium

Latest tendered service awards

East Thames Buses DW8 (LF52 TKK), a short wheelbase Wright Cadet-bodied...

Regular Premium

HALFCABS ETCETERA

OUR OCCASIONAL GLIMPSE INTO THE NEW LIVES OF RETIRED BRITISH...

Regular Premium

FLEET IN FOCUS ALPINE TRAVEL

East Lancs Myllennium Vyking-bodied Volvo B7TL BHZ 9546 has a...

Feature Premium

REALISING THE POTENTIAL

DAVID JUKES

It is 31 years since Stagecoach acquired Hampshire Bus from the...

DAVID JUKES
Regular Premium

TfGM consults with 35 operators on franchising proposal

Transport for Greater Manchester has invited 35 operators to...

Regular Premium

Stagecoach redeploys open-top Trident to Eastbourne

The open-topper will complement the Dotto train that Stagecoach...

Regular Premium

Arriva looks north to expand DRT Click service

Arriva hopes to introduce its demand responsive Click minibus...

Regular Premium

French rail strikes boost Flixbus income

A wave of strikes disrupting France’s staterun rail network...

Regular Premium

Yutong E10 begins trials with Arriva in Croydon

The first of two Chinese-built Yutong E10 battery electric demonstrators...

Regular Premium

VINTAGE FENTON FILE

Thornycroft had high hopes for a new range of bus and coach chassis...