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Busy start for Mendip Mule Motorbus

Alexander (Belfast) RH-bodied Volvo Olympian P772 SWC retains...

Stagecoach supersedes Arriva at Surrey University

Stagecoach South 37264 (SL64 HWY), an Alexander Dennis Enviro200...

Enviro500EVs for Foothill Transit

Foothill Transit’s Enviro500EVs will be the first of the type...

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WHEN READING DEWIRED ITS TROLLEYS

DAVE HALL

DAVE HALL looks back 50 years to the closure of the last trolleybus...

DAVE HALL
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SHOW MORE RESPECT

With PHIL STOCKLEY

The way to really send me over the edge is to say that ‘all...

With PHIL STOCKLEY
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A Craster conundrum

Millar’s TALES

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

Millar’s TALES
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A websmith’s Handybus that also carries bikes

Former East London DW153 (NDZ 3153), a Wright Handybus new in...

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Who will end this DDA loophole?

The photograph with this letter was taken from inside one of...

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RALLY CALENDAR UPDATE

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

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FLEETNEWS IRELAND

PAUL SAVAGE & IAN MOLLOY

Where to send your reports ››››› Send your reports...

PAUL SAVAGE & IAN MOLLOY

Coventry fleet stays blue in West Midlands rebrand

Wright Eclipse 2-bodied Volvo B7RLE 2145 (BX12 DHV) in the sky...

Routes go as austerity reaches Reading Buses

A stay of execution for council-funded bus routes in Reading...

Bard’s Bus is banished from Birmingham

The Bard’s Bus-branded Enviro400 SN65 OJA Juliet arriving in...

Five Enviro500s added to Auckland sightseeing fleet

PICTURE: SCOTT MITCHELL In New Zealand, Ritchies Transport...

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4WD IN FUNCHAL

PATRICK CROSS

There are few low-floor buses in Madeira and, as PATRICK CROSS...

PATRICK CROSS
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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...

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RENEWED ROUTEMASTERS

ALAN MILLAR learns the inside story of a remarkable project that...

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Recalling Tilling times and ‘frightful’ London years

ALAN MILLAR

Title: London Buses in the 1970s Author: Jim Blake Publisher:...

ALAN MILLAR
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West Midlands to specify single brand, Mersey mayor to make ‘big speech’

The West Midlands Bus brand will complement those recently introduced...

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Citybus criss-crosses Cornwall

Plymouth Citybus will extend farther across Cornwall with new...

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Second NZ order for Enviro200EV

One of the two Enviro200EVs that NZ Bus is operating in Auckland....

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Wellington trials converted trolley and receives double-deck electrics

NZ Bus 361, the Designline trolleybus converted to battery electric...

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Westminster pulls plug on Oxford Street pedestrianisation

Plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street — one of mayor Sadiq Khan’s...