#AYearOfBuses49: TransWilts Express Trowbridge – Devizes – Swindon

stagecoach 49

It’s day 49, and we’re taking a trip into deepest Wiltshire today on #AYearOfBuses.  Stagecoach in Swindon’s TransWilts Express 49 links the county town of Trowbridge with Devizes and Swindon, making its way through some of England’s most beautiful scenery, including Fyfield Down nature reserve. Running every hour and with an end-to-end journey time of around 1hr 20mins, […]

#AYearOfBuses 47: Lincoln – Newark

PC Coaches

No, that’s not a Stagecoach hybrid you’re looking at. It’s today’s winner – day 47 – on #AYearOfBuses. In 2013, PC Coaches of Lincoln received Green Bus funding from the UK government to buy two Alexander Dennis Enviro400 hybrids for its small network of routes running out of the city. They regularly appear on the […]

#AYearOfBuses 42: Manchester – East Didsbury – Stockport

Finglands 42

Providing the backbone for one of Europe’s busiest bus corridors, the 42 is quite simply THE staple food of the Mancunian bus diet.  The 42 runs from Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens bus station, through the heart of the universities and out towards Fallowfield, East Didsbury and Stockport, in the south of the city. With a bus […]

#AYearOfBuses 34: Leigh – Manchester

Stagecoach 34

We’re heading to Manchester for day 34 on #AYearOfBuses to check in on an interesting battle between regular and guided buses. The 34 and X34 is a long-standing route connecting Manchester with Salford and Leigh, in the borough of Wigan. Over the years, it’s been run by a number of operators, including both First and […]

#AYearOfBuses 17: X17 Matlock – Chesterfield – Sheffield – Barnsley

Gold X17

Now on its second generation of glitzy Gold-specification buses, Stagecoach Yorkshire’s X17 is today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses. Stagecoach Yorkshire’s X17 is home to a brand new fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro400MMCs, its second generation of Gold buses for the route. Buses run every 30 mins between Chesterfield and Sheffield, with extensions to Matlock, Meadowhall and Barnsley, […]

#AYearOfBuses 10: Aberdeen – Inverness

Route 10

10 coaches, 1 route. The 10. Day 10 of #AYearOfBuses takes us into Scotland for the first time – and it’s a cracker. Standing at a whopping 4 hours and 10 minutes end-to-end, the 10 connects the two Scottish cities of Aberdeen and Inverness, via Elgin and Nairn. It’s run by Stagecoach with a fleet […]

#AYearOfBuses 5: 555 Lancaster – Kendal – Keswick

Lakes Connection

Get ready to add this one to your bucket list. One of the UK’s longest – and most scenic – bus routes takes today’s spot on #AYearOfBuses. Well, it’d be a little boring to simply rattle through the numbers 1 to 365 for #AYearOfBuses, and we’d be missing out on some cracking routes such as […]

#AYearOfBuses 2: X2 Preston – Southport – Liverpool

Day two on #AYearOfBuses takes us to Merseyside – it’s Stagecoach’s recently-upgraded X2, running every 30 mins between Preston, Southport and Liverpool. In 2018, Stagecoach Merseyside, Cheshire and South Lancashire splashed out £4 million for a fleet of brand new Enviro400MMCs for the X2, featuring deluxe e-leather seats, tables, LED reading lights, free WiFi and […]

Stagecoach to trial the UK’s first full-size driverless bus

Stagecoach is set to trial the UK’s first full-sized driverless bus. Yes. It’s happening. The autonomous vehicle revolution is here. Well actually, it’s kind of underway already, with trials of AVs happening all over the world as we speak (see the partnership between manufacturer Navya, la Métropole de Lyon and Sytral for one such example). RATP in […]

Virgin & Stagecoach join forces with SNCF for West Coast bid

Pendolino tilting

Virgin Trains and Stagecoach will partner with the French high speed operator, SNCF, in their bid for the combined West Coast and HS2 rail franchise. The Government has announced that the West Coast Partnership franchise will run from 2019, that it will include the first few years of operation of HS2, and that bidders must […]

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