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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.
Green Line is a long standing commuter coach brand in the Home counties of England. The trademark is owned by Arriva , [1] with services operated by Arriva Herts & Essex . Green Line had its origin in the network of coach services established by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) in the 1920s and 1930s, being absorbed into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.
East London. East London Bus & Coach Company Limited, [ 1] trading as Stagecoach London, is a bus company operating in East London. The East London brand is a subsidiary of Stagecoach London and operates services under contract to Transport for London from seven garages.
Bustimes.org is a transportation information website created to take advantage of Bus Services Act 2017 requirement for bus operators in England to provide bus timetables, fares and vehicle locations in an open data format, which can be utilised by app and website developers. [ 2 ] This DfT service is called the Bus Open Data Service .
Scottish Citylink [1] is a long-distance express coach operator in Scotland and Ireland (where it operates as Irish Citylink) and formerly England (where it operated as Stansted Citylink). The company was formed as a subsidiary of Scottish Transport Group in March 1985. It is operated as a 63/37 joint venture between ComfortDelGro and Stagecoach .
Transport for Greater Manchester has designated the A6 as a quality bus corridor. In October 2008, route 192 was the first in England to have solar-powered on-street ticket machines. [17] The machines cost around £80,000 and were installed by Stagecoach and GMPTE for a 12-month trial, enabling tickets to be bought beforehand and saving time when boarding the bus.
A substantial overhaul of the bus network in Grimsby-Cleethorpes took place in September 2014, as part of the launch of the 'Simplibus' network. This involved the renumbering of most services into numerical order as well as the rerouting or withdrawal of some services, and coincided with a £4 million investment of 28 new single-deck buses for the fleet, all delivered new with Simplibus branding.
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is the major bus operator of the city of Nottingham, England. NCT operates extensively within Nottingham as well beyond the city boundaries into Nottinghamshire county. [1] Publicly-owned, it is today the second largest municipal bus company in the United Kingdom after Lothian Buses in Edinburgh, Scotland.