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Coach & Bus Week can trace its origins back to 1978 with the founding of Coachmart in Kingston upon Hull by former coach proprietor Terry Beanland. Coachmart was the first weekly magazine published specifically for the coach industry, who had previously had to rely on monthly magazines or small sections within Commercial Motor or other weekly commercial vehicle magazines.
Most bus services in the United Kingdom are run by the Big Five, five large groups of companies which emerged in the 1990s from the consolidation of bus companies privatised in the 1980s. These groups are all focused on transport. Some of them also run rail services, express coach services and overseas transport companies. They are: Arriva
Stagecoach Group is a transport group based in Perth, Scotland. It operates buses and express coaches in the United Kingdom . Stagecoach was originally founded in 1976 as Gloagtrotter, a recreational vehicle and minibus hire business. During the early 1980s, it took advantage of the deregulation of the British express coach market, launching ...
Yes. History. Opened. 1936. Sheffield Interchange is the main bus station in central Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The facility is served by buses operating across the Sheffield region, as well as National Express coaches that connect Sheffield with destinations across the United Kingdom. The Interchange is located on the eastern side of ...
Scottish Motor Traction (SMT) was founded in Edinburgh in 1905 by William Johnston Thomson. [1] It operated buses in much of central Scotland. Aside from its bus operations, by 1930 SMT had dealerships in Edinburgh selling cars and trucks at 89 Haymarket Terrace and 71 Lothian Road. It also operated an air taxi service with a De Havilland Fox ...
Between London and Manchester, for example, the (hourly) National Express Coach service takes a minimum of 4 hours and 35 minutes, with most services taking 5 hours 20 minutes; the three-per-hour train service takes just two hours and seven minutes (average). Thus a day trip for leisure or business by coach would either give a very short time at the destination, or require a very early start ...
Height. 2.645 m (8.68 ft) Kerb weight. 5,000 kg (5.0 t), GVW. The Mellor Orion (previously known as the Bluebird Orion) is a minibus body manufactured on Fiat Ducato chassis since 2011, introduced by Bluebird Vehicles and subsequently built by Mellor Coachcraft since 2014. Several variants are produced, including the long-wheelbase Orion Plus ...
B. Former bus operators in Bedfordshire (6 P) Former bus operators in Berkshire (6 P) Former bus operators in Brighton and Hove (1 P) Former bus operators in Bristol (6 P) Former bus operators in Buckinghamshire (8 P)