RHA welcomes new sanctions brought in by the government to crack down on crime gangs behind people smuggling. Ashton Cull, RHA Senior Public Affairs Lead, said that commercial vehicle operators, including coach companies, get ‘unwittingly caught up in this trade with criminal gangs using ever-resourceful ways of securing clandestine entrants into UK-bound vehicles undetected’. He […]

As Stagecoach Manchester transitions into the Bee Network, it says goodbye to the iconic Magic Bus branding. The operator’s Magic Bus service made its final journey on 4 January. To preserve its legacy, Stagecoach will donate one of its iconic low-floor double-deckers, introduced in 2006, to the Museum of Transport. Over its 25-year tenure, Stagecoach […]

Westway Coach Services has been granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment from His Majesty King Charles III. The Surrey-based operator is honoured to have the only Royal Warrant granted to a coach operator. The Warrant is a mark of recognition to companies who have regularly supplied services to the Royal Household for at least five […]

London-based Wattsway Travel has collected the first new version of the Yutong GTe14 touring coach for the UK from Pelican Bus and Coach.   The vehicle is the first vehicle of its kind with the new style interior that debuted at the Euro Bus Expo in Birmingham in November 2024. The coach has 563kW of […]

Stagecoach East has stepped in to refute claims made by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) that it has withdrawn from a tendering process. The local authority said a bus operator, who it said cannot be named for legal reasons, has withdrawn all of its winning bids to run the final seven of its area’s […]

Stephensons of Essex has added five Alexander Dennis Enviro400s to its fleet. The new double-deckers each have 86 seats fitted with USB charging ports. They are the first on Alexander Dennis chassis for the operator, joining similar buses on third-party chassis as well as a large number of Enviro200 single-deckers in the operator’s 140-vehicle fleet. […]

Jason Edwards Travel has chosen Stertil-Koni’s mobile column lifts to enhance efficiency and safety at its new workshop near Heathrow. The supplied lifts consist of six Stertil-Koni ST1075FSA mobile columns with a combined lifting capacity of 30 tonnes. The columns feature the ebright Smart Control System, which allows engineers to operate the lifts either individually […]

Stagecoach East, Cambridgeshire County Council and Anglian Water have struck a deal to ensure a village is saved from isolation. The deal sees a shuttle-bus being run around a collapsed access road for the next two weeks to serve Farcet. Residents of Farcet had previously faced isolation before Christmas, until a shuttle-bus service was put […]