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This is a new trading name for services running in Shrewsbury and Market Drayton from September.

Transpeak has two buses that operate from Derby and three from Buxton. One of the Derby buses finishes in Buxton each day and one of the Buxton buses finishes in Derby, but all Derby drivers return to Derby and all Buxton drivers return to Buxton.

I always liked the PMT interurban livery from the 1990s (not my picture - found online).

As well as your ‘£10 more’ don’t forget to add in a departure charge from Crewe Bus Station which is around £1, plus that more time needs to be given to running in service so add about another £7 to cover the drivers’ wage at Sunday rate with employer pension and NI factored in. That is already...

The Leighton Link buses have been branded for ten years, so your comment is quite blatantly incorrect!

What sort of network review do you think is needed? The majority of the services are tendered.

It’s where the petrol station is in Cellarhead.

Salts closed down a couple of years ago. The Cannock depot doesn’t have a proper paint shop, it’s mainly used for body repairs.

You could build a bench test kit which connects to a laptop as the software has a GPS simulator built into it. It would cost around £1,500 as you would need a sign, controller, speaker, cabling and switches to simulate door feeds and bell pushes. Probably worth the investment in the long term if...

I’d say that only 8 spare buses on a fleet that size is incredibly tight, especially given a significant number of them are between 10 and 13 years old. Bus operators tend not to have buses sitting around ‘just in case’ as they are an expensive asset to both buy and maintain. Even if it’s an...

£340 per day isn’t much though, considering First need to have this additional bus in the fleet, and that bus will have the same overheads as every other bus. It’s very expensive to have a bus sitting about with nothing else to do, especially as a short term arrangement as it’s harder to make...

PVS in Barnsley would probably be the best place to start.

The Scanias were airport spec with very few seats for a large bus, and the old MCV’s were the same size as the new Volvos.

The registered keeper in this case would be the bus operator. There would be separate contract paperwork relating to the ownership of the vehicles. In the case of leased vehicles it may be the other way round as it is considered a temporary arrangement.

Any tracking equipment is unlikely to be connected to the destination display equipment, and would probably not be able to interface with it anyway. Ticketer ticket machines are able to connect to certain types of destination controller but to configure displays to change mid-route needs the...