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Calendar honours historic island route colours

Title: Buses of Malta & Gozo Calendar 2022Publisher: Malta Transport...

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Transport for London pulls 'creepy' ad

Transport for London has ordered that advertisements for the Channel 4 programme 'Naked Attraction' are removed from buses on its services

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Driver shortages across the country

Driver shortages are spreading in other parts of the country, with some operators now reducing or withdrawing services temporarily

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Lothian set to become Edinburgh’s multi-modal operator

Revised plans from the City of Edinburgh Council are to transform Lothian Buses into a business charged with delivering multi-modal public transport

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Fares fair 40 years on

It is 40 years since the Labour-led Greater London Council introduced its ‘Fare’s fair’ policy which saw bus and tube fares cut by 32%

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London Bus Museum to hold route 93 running day

Running day follows museum's successful route 65 event

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Salzburg says goodbye to Gräf & Stift trolleybuses

Salzburg has retired the final examples of its first-generation low-floor Gräf & Stift articulated trolleybuses

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Buses Magazine September 2021

The full issue in page-turning format

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ACROSS WALES

In the first of two articles, MALCOLM COWTAN begins a journey on the T2 from Bangor to Aberystwyth in March 2020, just before the pandemic began in earnest.

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SHOW SEASON RETURNS

JAMES DAY attends ITT Hub 2021, reporting on what was on show...

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PRESERVATION UPDATE: GATESHEAD DEBUT FOR TWO OLYMPIANS

Two newly restored Olympians — one Leyland and one Volvo — were among the stand-out participants in this year’s North East Bus Preservation Trust rally at the Metrocentre in Gateshead on July 22.

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I’M KEEPING MY MASK ON

Masks would have been a small price to pay for the abolition of social distancing

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LOOK IN ON LONDON

Abellio West London will operate route 111 (Heathrow – Kingston) from next April.

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READING BETWEEN THE LINES

PAST & PRESENTThe surviving municipal operator nearest to London...

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THE RISE AND DECLINE OF ARRIVA

DAVID JENKINS looks over the history of Arriva, and assesses...

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A DAY OUT ON HULLEY’S

Following the company’s centenary in April, JOHN YOUNG samples...

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Wise words on Delta lookalike

No one lived and breathed Optare as long as former commercial...

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FENTON FILE

In his continuing quest of the unusual, MIKE FENTON offers his...

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RIDING A TAILWIND

Alexander Dennis provides an update to the media, highlighting...

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Ambitious plan to electrify principal TrawsCymru route

Optare Tempo YA13 AAJ in Betws-y-coed on the new...

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Fastrack ZEBRA winners announced

Six local authorities have been named by the Department for Transport as the first potential recipients of the Zero Emission Bus Regional Area (ZEBRA) funding

Enviro400XLBs join Cambridge Busway network route B

Stagecoach East is making several service changes to its Cambridgeshire Busway network, with Alexander Dennis Enviro400XLB 100-seaters entering service on route B

King Harry Coaches acquired by Truronian

The coaches will become the first vehicles to adopt a new ‘Truronian Classic’ sub brand

Go-Ahead aims to be carbon neutral by 2045

Go-Ahead plans to convert its entire 5,000-strong bus fleet to zero emission by 2035

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LOCAL BRANDING IS BETTER

I’m writing this column heading out of Leeds embarking on a...

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60 YEARS AGO The Liverpool look

August 1961 Buses Illustrated brought this drawing of the Metro-Cammell...

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GM FRANCHISING IS NOT CONVINCING

This year’s Buses Festival on August 8 is fast approaching,...

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FLEET IN FOCUS

HODGSONS COACH OPERATORS Based: Head office – Galgate,...

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London United resurrects Westlink garage code, new garage for Abellio

The two Wright Gemini 2DLs recently acquired from Tower Transit...