SPECIAL FEATURES:
MEXICO GOES DOUBLE-DECK - Two cities buy UK-built Enviro500s and StreetDecks for bus rapid transit schemes
AROUND THE WORLD IN 940 DAYS - The adventurous past of a recently restored Eastern National Bristol K5G
RETRACING JOHN GILLHAM - Bob Hind rides from Hastings to Portsmouth
FOCUS ON SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND - Strategy, congestion, ticketing and student transport
DAN BOYLE'S GOLD KEY - The story of a recent priceless addition to the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport
REGULARS:
COMMENT - Publicity does matter
NEWS - First prioritises Greyhound sale ahead of UK Bus; Yutong electrics ordered for Leeds; Wrightbus restarts deliveries and begins recruitment; Oxford Tube fills X90 gaps; Transdev axes Lancashire routes; Stagecoach plans to increase Busway services; new RaWtenstall bus station; Nottingham City Transport is operator of the year; staff and passengers to set pace of Stagecoach's driverless technology; Go North East's Martijn Gilbert is Omnibus Society president
INSIDE TRACK - Market town service despair
GLOBAL NEWS - Keolis buys PostAuto's French operations; Dunn Group sells Australian bus fleet; TOSA technology for Brisbane Metro; Ticketer buys Norway's Fara; Caetano and Rampini combine EV ranges
LOOK IN ON LONDON - Three more double-deck routes to go electric; RATP starts Ealing Slide DRT; First restores Heathrow links; RTs return to Heathrow to mark route 140 changes
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MILLAR'S TALES - Why Wings Bristol KSW might be restored with battery electric power; annual outing for a pair of Australian RTs; Eyam community bus is caked well for Bakewell
PICTUREVIEW - Southdown savoured at Amberley
THE BUS ARCHIVE - Bygone coach licensing and a Saunders-bodied Guy
FENTON FILE - The only Wright Contour-bodied Ford R-Series coach
YOU WRITE - Cambridgeshire neglects supported services and roadside infrastructure; local authorities fail to enforce parking controls; TfL performance judged from a London perspective; operators' websites need better search facilities; Isle of Wight shows good example of what could be achieved in Dorset; audio-visual announcements that sound too parochial
PRESERVATION UPDATE - Beamish depot opens; Ace attraction in Ipswich; Leopard in Dewsbury; Ribble in north Fylde
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES - Compiled by John G. Lidstone
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND - Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND - Compiled by Paul Savage and Ian Molloy
REVIEWS - Books on Ribble and Standerwick, Western National, London and Southampton, plus EFE's latest Leyland National and a DVD at Victoria Coach Station
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