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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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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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PAST & PRESENT: RIBBLE IN CARLISLE

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

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EPIDEMIC IN BRIGHTON

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

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FLEET NEWS IRELAND: June 2020

Fleet News Ireland June 2020...

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INSIDE TRACK: Good times will return

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

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2019 MARKET ANALYSIS: FEAST BEFORE FAMINE

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

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2019 MARKET ANALYSIS: COACHES

Coach sales grew by 7.3%...

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UNCERTAIN ROAD AHEAD

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

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Fleet News England & Wales June 2020

In Fleet News this month...

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SCOTLAND’S BERMUDA TRIANGLE

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

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LOOK IN ON LONDON: Fares are waived

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

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2019 MARKET ANALYSIS: DOUBLE-DECK BUS

Deliveries of market leader Alexander Dennis’s Enviro400 slipped...

Friends of King Alfred appeals for new depot space

The Friends of King Alfred Buses (FoKAB) is in sudden and urgent need of new accommodation for many of its unique collection of Winchester buses and is appealing for help from anyone who can help.

Stagecoach calls for post-lockdown strategy

Stagecoach has today called for a joint strategy between industry and government to secure vital public transport networks out of the Covid-19 lockdown and beyond.

TfGM ‘still holding gun to operators’ heads’, says D&G’s Peddle

The row between D&G Bus director Julian Peddle and Transport for Greater Manchester over the conditions for funding essential services has continued into a second month, with Peddle saying that the transport authority is still making unacceptable demands.

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Land of the guided bus

Three kerb-guided bus rapid transit lines have been developed...

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PRESERVATION UPDATE: First apprentices restore Leicester PD2

Apprentices at First Leicester have completed a three-year restoration...

Mancunian in preparation for autumn release

Alan Millar reviews a forthcoming model release...

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The CAV challenge

Architect ADAM BROWN argues that the bus and its supporting infrastructure...

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Linking London's low cost airports

With 4million passengers passing through Luton and Stansted every year...

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Fleet News Ireland - May 2020

Welcome to Fleet News Ireland May 2020...

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Colouring the Potteries

CLIFF BEETON describes First Potteries’ radical new approach...

Pandemic decimates services

The coronavirus pandemic led to a massive and rapid reduction...

The highlights of 74 years of Wrights

Alan Millar reviews Wrightbus – From 1946 to New

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INSIDE TRACK: The pandemic crisis

Just before the 2009 swine flu outbreak...

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COMMENT: National emergency

If it had not already struck home, the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic...

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Fleet News England & Wales: May 2020

Welcome to Fleet News for England and Wales May 2020...

Stagecoach’s doomed Gold brand and Ensignbus’s silver and blue

The Chinese factory producing Northcord’s models has returned to work

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London-style for all?

Brought up to appreciate the simplicity and unity of London’s bus network...