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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.
Buses is a magazine published in the United Kingdom that primarily focuses on the British public bus industry. It was originally published by Ian Allan Publishing; since March 2012 it has been published by Key Publishing. The current editor is James Day. The magazine is accompanied by a yearbook published in August every year for the next year ...
For a structured list of current operators, see List of current bus operators of the United Kingdom This is a list of bus and coach operators of the United Kingdom. The list includes both current and historic entities, private companies and public operators, sub-brands and holding companies and public transport , private hire and tour operators.
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
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 ...
In common with cars and trucks, preservation of buses in the United Kingdom is a hobby activity enjoyed by many people, both actively or passively. The active preservation and operation of preserved buses is undertaken by private individuals, organised trusts or societies, and even commercial operators.
Red & White Services was a bus company operating in south east Wales and Gloucestershire, England between 1929 and 1978. Red & White evolved into Red & White United Transport Ltd, formed in 1937, which owned bus and road freight companies in the United Kingdom and Southern Africa. When the group's UK bus interests were sold to the British ...
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)