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Recently two particular sets of Volvo B7TLs have been withdrawn; the final remaining FX06 Geminis at Stagecoach East Midlands, and the AU53/AU05 ALX400s at First Eastern Counties. Given the slightly unique aspects to both sets of vehicles I was expecting one might enter preservation, but that's...

Something I've never seen explained before is how vehicle loans between operators are dealt with on a legal/official basis. Similarly, transfers within the same company (e.g. buses moving between different Stagecoach divisions). Due to the regulations regarding o-discs and such I'd imagine...

The various aspects of bus deregulation seem to be quite well documented and details on how operators could register routes and compete with each other are fairly easy to find and understand. However, a little look around the internet hasn't yielded any meaningful results on how things were...

Has there ever been a case where a vehicle has been sold by an operator but then managed to return to the fleet? And if it did, would it get a new fleet number or re-use its old one? I could quite easily envisage operator A selling buses to operator B, only to take over operator B later on and...