Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not.

Though they serve one of England's smallest counties, the smaller operators in Bedfordshire contain some very interesting vehicles.

John Law has been visiting Oxfordshire and photographing the county's buses and coaches since 1973.

The transport scene in the historic city of York has seen numerous changes since 1986, with the breakup of the National Bus Company into a number of separate units whose ownership have since changed several times.

The Dundee & District Tramways Company began operating a service using a horse tram on 30 August 1877.

Although several coaching pools for express services were established in the late 1920s, it was not until 1972, three years after the formation of the National Bus Company, that a nationwide, fully coordinated express coach network came into being under the National banner.

The preservation of our transport heritage is something that the British excel at.

Kirkcaldy Corporation Tramways began to operate an electric tram service in Kirkcaldy in 1903, connecting with the Wemyss and District Tramways Company service to Leven, further up the Fife coast, which began in 1906.

In the 1970s you could travel from the Scottish border to the Yorkshire coast resort towns using only red and white United buses.

Wrightbus of Ballymena built its first double-deck body in 2001, naming it the Eclipse Gemini.

The East London bus scene in 1969 was one of contrast.

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The National Bus Company was the creation of the 1968 Transport Act, which merged the bus operations of the Tilling Group and the British Electric Traction Company.

The very first motor bus services in East Anglia were operated by the Great Eastern Railway Company, and although these started in Suffolk, services were soon provided within Norfolk as well.

Walsall's bus fleet was always idiosyncratic, reflecting particularly the ideas of their General Managers.

The Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company began to operate motor buses in the Birmingham and Black Country area in 1912, radiating their services out as far as Leicester.

Local bus and tram services in Glasgow were traditionally operated by the Corporation Transport Department, which had a monopoly in the city limits from 1930 onwards.

Despite all the current hype making people believe that electric and hybrid vehicles are a staggering present-day breakthrough in the quest for a carbon-zero future, both are, in fact, old technology introduced over 100 years ago that has been refined.

First appearing in 1972, National Express coaches have become a familiar site on the UK's roads, and are very much a part of popular culture, celebrated in songs and on television.

Propelled towards the end of the 1990s by accessibility imperative requiring low floor buses both in London and the rest of Britain, Dennis developed a tri axle Trident double decker for Hong Kong and then adapted the design as a two axle version for Britain.

Strategic Planning in London: The Rise and Fall of the Primary Road Network examines the relationship between order and change in the urban planning process.

The bus scene around Southampton and its surrounding towns in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of change.

The London to Brighton run, held each year by the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society, is a key date in the diary of any vintage vehicle enthusiast or member of the preservation community.

Part of a four-volume history of trolleybus systems across Britain, this book covers operations based in Wales, the Midlands, and East Anglia.

The Enviro400 was introduced in 2005 and has become a popular model among bus operators around the UK, as well as in Hong Kong.

Nowadays, the European coach market is dominated by a few manufacturers whose products are sold across the Continent and beyond.

In the 1970s the state-owned National Bus Company operated services across England and Wales, and one of the largest of its thirty-six constituent bus companies was the huge Crosville Motor Services.

Ask any tourists what colour London's buses are and they will say red - and so they are.

The origins of Wrightbus can be traced back to just after the Second World War in 1946 when the company was founded as Robert Wright & Son Coachbuilders in Ballymena Northern Ireland.

Wessex Coaches of Bristol was certainly a company with two faces.

On 26 October 1986, bus services were deregulated throughout the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland and London.

Set in the Aire Valley of West Yorkshire and surrounded by several towns, Bradford maintains a proud transport history and was the first - and last - city in the UK to operate trolleybuses.

Traffic Planning and Engineering, Second Edition takes into account underlying trends in traffic planning and engineering.

In 1985 the Scottish Bus Group decided to split the Border and East Lothian operations of Eastern Scottish from the rest of the company.

What happens to old buses at the end of their career, when they are replaced by newer vehicles?

David Harvey takes us on a journey on the second longest bus route that was initiated by Birmingham Corporation.

Edinburgh did not adopt electric traction until the early 1920s when the Corporation took over from the Edinburgh & District Tramway Co.

Bus garages, or depots if that is your preferred nomenclature, come in all shapes and sizes and have their origins in the tram depots that were established by the various tramway companies of the pre-electrification era.

Merseyside is an area with a colourful bus history.

Shuttle Buses, based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, celebrates thirty years in business in 2020.

As Britain entered the 1990s, the character of East London was changing rapidly.

The last decade of Routemaster bus operation in London saw over seven hundred surviving RMs and RMLs divided between several new companies following the privatization of London Buses Ltd’s subsidiaries in 1994.

Fife, a council area and historic county of Scotland, is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.

Located in the Chiltern Hills, Luton has a rich transport history, being home to London Luton Airport and Vauxhall Motors.

For seventy years, Duple was one of the two best-known names in coachbuilding in Britain.

The history of East Yorkshire is well documented, going back to 1919 when Ernest John Lee purchased a fourteen-seat Ford Model T bus for a service between Elloughton and Hull.

Plaxton launched the President model in 1997 but construction of the type did not commence until 1999.

The story of Midland Red is well known in enthusiast circles, and those lucky enough to have experienced the company at its peak can well remember the fleet of nearly 2,000 bright red vehicles not only cheering up the industrial areas of the Black Country and the East Midlands but blending seamlessly with the bucolic charms of the Vale of Evesham, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.