Arriva North West has announced an order for 44 Wright-bodied Volvo B5LHs. The agreement, finalised at the recent Thomas Hardie Commercials Open Day in Deeside, Cheshire, will see 33 hybrids going into service for Arriva at Laird Street in Birkenhead and a further 11 in Bolton and is in part due to the Green Bus [...]
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Stagecoach invests in 390 new vehicles
Stagecoach Group announced on Monday (February 20) it is investing around £60m into 390 new buses and coaches for its provincial UK bus and coach networks. Further orders will be placed later in the year. It follows an annual competitive tendering process and brings Stagecoach’s total investment in new vehicles for its regional bus operations [...]
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Arriva Southern invests in StreetLites
Arriva Southern Counties (ASC) has introduced five new Wright StreetLites onto its route 116, which are being branded as X-BUS 116. Based at Gillingham depot, the new buses are the first Door Forward Wrightbus StreetLites to enter service and represent an investment by Arriva of £600,000, bringing the total spent on new and refurbished buses [...]
Celtic Travel’s Wright Volvos hit the road
Celtic Travel’s three new Wright Eclipse 2 bodied- Volvo B7RLEs have entered service on the firm’s first ever bus route, the X75 which links Shrewsbury with Rhayader, via Welshpool, Newtown and Llanidloes. The family-run firm, based in Llanidloes has run a fleet of coaches for many years. Celtic Travel took over the operation of the [...]
Arriva takes on TrawsCambria commercially
Fleet investment and service enhancements for West Wales Arriva Buses Wales (ABW) is to implement a package of improvements to the Aberystwyth – Carmarthen – Cardiff corridor, which has traditionally formed part of the TrawsCambria Welsh long distance bus and coach network. From February 26, the corridor will no longer be branded ‘TrawsCambria’ as ABW [...]
GNE responds to X9/X10 consultation with new buses
Go North East plans to introduce new double decker buses this summer in response to a customer consultation. The new vehicles, part of a £1.1m investment, will run on the Tyne- Tees Express X9/X10 routes, which run half-hourly between Tyneside and Teesside.
Book your ALBUM place while you can
Bookings for this year’s Album (Association of Local Bus Company Managers) conference on May 22 and 23 are going so well, delegate places are disappearing fast and only four trade stands are still available in the exhibition area. The event, held at the Forest Pines Hotel near Brigg in North Lincolnshire, will focus mainly on [...]
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Plymouth Citybus invest in new Volvos
Go-Ahead Group-owned Plymouth Citybus has made a significant investment of £1.6m in 10 41 leather-seated Volvo B7RLE buses. The new Volvo Euro 5 vehicles have now gone into production at the Wrightbus factory in Northern Ireland and will be delivered to Plymouth Citybus later this year.
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