Cover picture: The distinctive guided busway livery on one of Stagecoach Cambridgeshire’s 10 new Alexander Dennis Enviro400-bodied Scania double-deckers for the Cambridge-St Ives guided busway. See page 16. STEVEN KNIGHT

Contents

NEWS
Job cuts at First; Veolia quits Hull; Stagecoach launches Megabusplus; Your chance to save RT1; Optare’s electric Solo; Bristol VR celebrations
NEWS
Local Transport Act starts taking effect; York Pullman back with buses; First loses Finch to Tube Lines; Optare job cuts; Arriva’s airport coaches; Bankfoot Buses banned; RT1 appeal; Stagecoach’s guideway buses
INSIDE TRACK
OFT study offers unique opportunity
GLOBAL NEWS
Veolia and Keolis at odds over Bordeaux; Danish quality pays off for Arriva; Euro money boosts Czech trolleybus service; Souter buys NZ ferries
IN LONDON
More diesels in latest route awards; Boris and the day of the big snow; iBus programme complete
MILLAR’S TALES
Whatever happened to Steine Street coach station? Postcards, triple-decker and an Irish LT
WRITE
Contrasting views of First, a different view of Bedfordshire, why buses cannot replace Windermere trains, John Gillham remembered
FENTON FILE
Mike Fenton fi nds a Hong Kong Olympian with a less usual history that is distinctly electric
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND/WALES
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
THE COACH PARC
Remembering the original National Expressliner
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by G. Irvine Millar and Ian Molloy
PRESERVATION UPDATE
Recent rallies remembered in pictures
REVIEWS
Books on Saunders-Roe, preserved buses and London