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Brighton’s trolleybus era was short but memorable

Like so many of the UK’s trolleybus systems, Brighton’s had...

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Passenger numbers drifting upwards

Latest figures from the Department for Transport for bus use...

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DfT announces further £150m of funding support

Bus and light rail operators across England will benefit from...

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TEABAG scalds Stagecoach as RMT raises dispute

A new action group uniting passengers frustrated at Stagecoach...

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BYD offers new battery-electric school bus in US

Chinese bus manufacturer BYD has introduced a new battery-electric...

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Metroline axes cross-border 84

Metroline has deregistered route 84 (New Barnet Station – St...

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DRIVING CAB TO BOARDROOM

A one-time bus driver and lifelong socialist, DOUGIE HARRISON...

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Have operators stopped believing that Britain’s bus managers have talent?

YOU WRITE These are letters pages and the views expressed therein...

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Missing text in The Longest Services

My Buses magazine popped through the letterbox today and I was...

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A salute to two modern London giants

Title: The London Dennis TridentAuthor: Matthew WharmbyPublisher:...

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First deregistrations made as operators' patience runs out

Continued uncertainty over government financial support has led...

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First U-turn on pensioner funding Sunday X53

First Wessex has backtracked on invoicing a generous 78-year-old...

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German trolleybus operator buys fuel-cell buses

German trolleybus and bus operator BBG in Eberswalde is buying...

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Funding saga drags on

LOOK IN ON LONDONTWO SHORT TERM EXTENSIONS AND A DEAL UNTIL JUNE...

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RF ta kes on a Swift disguise

When we watch a cinema film or television drama, we must suspend...

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ON CHARGE ACROSS LONDON

PICTUREVIEWTwenty-nine new BYD/Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV City...

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Dennis Lancet UFs

Regarding the letter from Ivor Homfray in Buses October and the...

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In Fleet News this month

East Yorkshire concentrates its two main single-deck types Hulleys...

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BUSES RESPOND TO CRISIS

COMMENT with JAMES DAY Kyiv’s articulated trolleybuses...

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South Yorkshire mayor in war of words with bus operators

The elected mayor of South Yorkshire, Dan Jarvis, has written...

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Rail woes overshadow positive bus performance at Go-Ahead

Go-Ahead Group has released its 2021 financial results, which...

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Vilnius to renew trolleybus fleet

Lithuanian municipal Vilniaus Viešasis Transportas Ltd (VVT),...

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RATPDev Transit London brand unveiled

Optare Metrodecker OME 4603 (YJ21 EXP) wearing the new branding....

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Crosville’s artist was a radical rebuilder

Stuart Render’s article about Leeds City Transport timetables...

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YELLOW BUSES RARITIES

PAST & PRESENTAn unusual body/chassis combination and a pioneering...

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Poor integration in Leeds

I was recently asked by a young man outside Leeds City Station...

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Routes that ran deep into rural Wharfedale

One of the pictures provided by The Bus Archive shows West Yorkshire...

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Liverpool moves closer to franchising

A meeting of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority in...

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Government misses BSIP deadline

The Department for Transport has failed to release funding details...

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Weston hub safety delay

A multimillion pound on-street central bus hub opened in Weston-super-Mare,...