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Talking of Bude, there was a planning permission granted recently for a bus compound to accommodate 14 bus parking bays, welfare facility and bus wash bay located in the Bude Stratton Business Park - do we know who this facility is for?

I understand that the withdrawal of the bus from the harbour stop is unpopular locally. However, when considered practically, the scale of concern appears somewhat disproportionate. Mousehole is a compact village, and nowhere is particularly far from the bus route. The distance between the...

A few people have questioned whether the Truronian name will continue. An ex Dartline Irizar i6 was in Truro today in the 'new' Truronian livery. This is the same red livery with white chevrons used by Dartline but with TRURONIAN fleet-names. The fleet-names have the Go Ahead corporate style...

There seems to be a bit of unnecessary criticism given the number of buses that Go Cornwall Bus have had to source in a short period of time... especially as the services they've been drafted in to operate haven't even started yet! I think some might also be looking at the former First Kernow...

Pearce's Motors of Polperro made use of a bus turntable to manoeuvre their vehicles into their garage which was located on Polperro's (actually quite small) 'Big Green'. There is now a Turntable Pizzeria on Big Green!

Yes, and I think one of the biggest missteps of the AC/MMH tenure was not addressing this in the post council tender / 20-20 vision period. The expectation that they could somehow offset the tender losses with commercial work seemed ambitious at the time and (admittedly with the benefit of...

Sadly another long-standing westcountry independent has had to cease trading due to financial issues, this time Filers Travel (Ilfracombe, North Devon). https://www.facebook.com/share/p/175Jg4m88n/

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Yes, that still runs - at least three vehicles in use daily there last week.

I believe First's Bodmin outstation is Keith Webber's old yard.

Yes, but aren't these all B10M-55? Was the D10M model name ever used officially by Volvo?

To play devil's advocate why should we continue to facilitate the use of cash? Is cash still relevant for the majority and are we going to see it's used grow or continue to diminish? Why promote the investment in off bus ticketing solutions now when cash use is in decline? Yes, I have to...

Oh no... don't open that can of worms!!

Sad to hear that FT Williams Travel of Camborne suffered from a significant fire at their depot overnight (22nd March). Williams are one of Cornwall's largest family owned coach companies. Thankfully it appears that nobody was physically hurt in the fire, but clearly several vehicles, the depot...

Have they? I'd suggest that Mercedes-Benz's rapid increase in market share in the UK coach market in the last 10 years has had a much greater impact than "cheap Chinese coaches". Yutong has had some recent success with its models but only in the last couple of years have they sold coaches in any...

It would appear that Volvo's decision not to transfer production of bodywork for it's 9700 and 9900 coaches and the challenging market conditions may have been too much for Spanish bodybuilder Sunsundegui...

It has been announced that Stagecoach have won the contract to provide bus services on the island of Guernsey. The BBC News report suggests the operation will be managed by Stagecoach South West. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80ez179v31o.amp

Interestingly, with Go-Ahead group having purchased several independent coach operators recently (Dartline, Pulhams, Regency, etc), it looks like National Express Group is moving in the opposite direction having agreed to dispose of Mortons Travel...

There were various different blues used by NBC subsidiaries: East Yorkshire used a deep indigo shade... but East Yorkshire also used a lighter shade known as 'Riviera blue' for dual purpose vehicles. Sunderland's was 'midnight blue' Midland used 'Balfour Beatty blue' Gloucester used 'aircraft...

I very much agree with @TheGrandWazoo 's take on the situation. No one got hurt, despite the unsafe operating practices... but there are innocent people (employers and suppliers) who have been financially damaged by Rhys's business practices. If we are to read between the lines this looks to...