Cover picture:One of First Berkshire's new double-deck Green Line 'coaches', Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied GL5 (LK58 EDJ), near the Royal Albert Hall on its way west out of London. RUSSELL YOUNG

Contents

NEWS
Tories reveal bus priorities; Optare axes Alero and Rotherham; Wright and Volvo line up their hybrids; Green Line and sexy green Geminis; Cambs guideway bus order; call for yellow schoolbuses

BUS PEOPLE
New government transport team; First reshuffles UK Bus team

INSIDE TRACK
Object lessons in keeping the past present in the future

GLOBAL NEWS
Greyhound orders coaches from Volvo-owned Prevost; Veolia foils Dutch newcomer Qbuzz; heritage double-deckers out in Berlin

IN LONDON
London TravelWatch says artic replacement will cost £48million; orbital X26 gets double the buses; gains and losses for Go-Ahead

MILLAR'S TALES
Glasgow's pioneering trolleybuses remembered 50 years on; Swifts on a London postcard; eggs on a Chorley Dart

PTE WANTS PARTNERSHIPS FOR LEEDS AND BEYOND
Metro explains why it is open to open access on its planned trolleybus lines

WARDLE TRANSPORT: A STORY OF STEADY GROWTH
How a Potteries independent has built up its local presence

THE END OF AN ERA IN MANCHESTER
Howard Piltz muses over the passage of time, Olympians and TD5s

THE DRIVER CPC: WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
If you drive buses professionally — even part-time — read this

EFE SHOWBUS INTERNATIONAL 2008
Pictorial highlights of Britain's biggest bus rally