Recent content by Man of Kent

East Kent had AEC Swift/Marshalls and Leyland Nationals converted to dual door for Dover Docks shuttles in the 1970s/80s. The modular nature of the latter made it slightly easier. Reading's Optare Spectras were allegedly built with provision for a second door to be retrofitted, including the...

Not quite that simple. Common Managing Director and Engineering Director until 1999, but East Kent has always been a commercially separate business, with management based at Canterbury.

£300,000? That'll barely buy you a new diesel double deck nowadays. These were closer to £0.5m each - I seem to recall there was a Freedom of Information answer in respect of the TfL ones that gave a price of £505,000 per bus, but I can't find it at the moment.

The Designlines were ordered by Tyne & Wear PTE and went with the Quaylink contract. I have a vague recollection that the Kinetics were ordered by Strathclyde PTE and were originally for Ayr-Girvan-Stranraer and associated services. And the open tops (also to be found in Cambridge) are...

There are rules about the size of characters, but nothing on scrolling. However, if as reported above, some buses are showing all-capital destinations, this is an offence as the legislation requires that "Destination information shall not be written in capital letters only".

West Midlands and West of England Combined Authorities are also now the registration authorities for their area, though I don't know if they are publishing any equivalent to N&P. However, TfGM will be more analogous to the situation in London, in that from January 2025, there are no registered...

If that goes back to Arriva days, at one time they were Kent County Council's contractor for all roadside publicity. I would surmise that they were changing their own publicity in Surrey.

Oxera provided Stagecoach's rebuttal of the Manchester proposals...

The important consideration is how long does it take you to stop? The distance needed by a psv or an hgv is very much more than for a car - some sources say two-thirds as much again. This is particularly crucial for signting distances at junctions and other hazards, and sometimes accounts for...

If anything, they've done well to be able to find buses and drivers to provide an all day half hourly service. The connections at Sittingbourne are fairly good, less so at the Medway end, but the overall journey is still very slow. As @duncombec pointed out, that's constrained by the fact that a...

Hardly anyone bothering to travel, it would seem. A solitary lower capacity single deck was more than adequate on some departures I saw today.

If by some chance the operator in question is Hulleys, bear in mind that they have on occasion been using Go Coach vehicles, which may not necessarily show up on Bustimes. Indeed, Bustimes cannot show a trip failing to run, but can only show that there is no evidence that a service ran. And if...

All of the certificates are available on this page: https://www.zemo.org.uk/work-with-us/buses-coaches/low-emission-buses/certificates-hub.htm

Though a cash-strapped local council has no statutory need to provide any bus services at all - Nottingham has come very close to scrapping all public transport subsidy in the last few weeks, and there are others, such as Southend and Luton, which gave up subsidising routes many moons ago. At...

Having checked pocket maps from the early 1970s, Moorgate was not shown as a BR interchange, so I suspect this diagram is no earlier than 1976, when the GN&C was taken over by BR.