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On Monday 20th July 2020, around 420 coaches descended on London and honked their horns from Earls Court, along the Chelsea Embankment, through Parliament Square and up to Tower Bridge. Their aim was to highlight to the Government the severe financial crisis the industry currently finds itself in with no prospect of any sort of recovery until at least next summer.
I witnessed the parade pass Chelsea Bridge with the lead vehicle passing at 11:00 and the final coach passing some 3 hours later!!
For this event I decided to focus on the coaches themselves.
Volvo B12M Jonckheere Mistral B4 CEC has now been with Nuneaton operator Chapel End Coaches for fourteen years. It was new to Parks of Hamilton in 2004 as LSK 503 and is seen in Stratford-upon-Avon on 6th October, 2022.
Doing Scottish Citylink 900 dupes to Edinburgh Bus Stn on 19th November 2016. Ex Excalibur Coaches in London.
Plaxton Panther 2 Volvo B9R new 10/2011 as Midand Red (South) 53641 On Megabus Taken at the Gabalfa Interchange, Cardiff.
The sixth 'Honk for Hope' event took place on September 1st 2020. The coach industry gathered at several motorway service stations and proceeded to head for Parliament Square in London but unfortunately were met with resistance from the MET Police.
The after event was held at Ascot Racecourse where 53 coaches gathered for the customary speeches and chit chat.
Satuday 24th August 2019 saw the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final take place at Wembley Stadium featuring St Helens vs Warrington Wolves followed by the 1895 Cup Final between Sheffield Eagles and Widnes Vikings. This ensured a good turn out of coaches from those areas with no less than 150 parking up in the Yellow parking zone, a further 40 in the Orange zone and around another 20 in the Pink zone.
I took a good selection of the Yellow zone arrivals which saw examples of bodywork from 20 different manufacturers ranging from Barbi to Yutong.
Shuttle Coaches YN09DXH Volvo B9R/Plaxton Panther (former Atlas Coaches) seen in the depot yard (27/02/23)
MX59BLN was a Neoplan Tourliner N2216SHD C48Ft purchased new by Buckley of Auckley in February 2010. It was captured as it passed through Edinburgh with subsequent owner Ratho Coaches.
Seeing a Portsmouth City Coaches rail replacement bus in Woking yesterday reminded me I have some shots from a photoshoot I did with them earlier this year (August 2025). CBW magazine requested some photos for an article that one of their esteemed reporters had written so with the help of proprietor Mike Elkin we posed a few of the fleet for my camera and enjoyed a bag of chips afterwards (cheers Mike!). The MCV Evosetis, new at the time, are now in fleet livery.
Van Hool TD927 Astromega new 7/2009 as Thames Transit 50204 Was GX09OTP and T55UBE Taken in Cardiff On Megabus
Berkhof Axial Scania K114IB4 new 6/2005 to Watts, Bonvilston Taken in Victoria Coach Station London On hire To Megabus
Ashalls Coaches of Gorton: (AE57 FBA) an MCV Evolution bodied MAN, captured here on Manchester Road in Chorlton. This vehicle is painted in the all over black livery used by Weaveaway of Newbury with Newbury & District branding and at the time of this photo was one of a pair acquired by Ashall's.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 19th March 2014.
Ref No. 0035391.
Saturday 16th April 2022 saw Liverpool play Manchester City in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. With the West Coast Main Line affected by engineering works, it was bound to produce a good selection of coaches with around 250 turning up. I noted 22 different coach body manufacturers to give plenty of variety to the day.
SUI 9014 Scania K114EB / Irizar Century
New to Classic, Annfield Plain in 2002 registered GO02CLA.
Anelay t/a Black & White, Scunthorpe.
United Coaches - Optare Solo - YJ10 MFP seen on South Circular Road, Coatbridge operating service 16 to Kirkwood on September 5th 2022
New to Thames Travel as their 1010, later passing to Go North East becoming their 699
Scania L94IB Irizar new 2/1998 as Bus Eireann SI10 Was M77YEL A18HLC R887SDT and new as 1831541 Taken in Tesco Ystryd Mynach
AOT Coaches' Alexander bodied Scania N113DRB (not an Oly as I thought in 2015) on Derby Road here outside QMC, with a few other buses around as well with NCT's 629 and two more from TrentBarton and Yourbus.
I expect that at the beginning of its life, this will have had been fitted with combined side lights and indicator units on the front, but these have been replaced by ones the same as on the side that only function as indicators.
Ex-TWM 3223
25.3.15
A former South Yorkshire Transport Atlantean seen here at the St.Helens Transport Museum after retirement from Isle Coaches and subsequent preservation.
Hodgsons Coaches - Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton MPD - LJU 914 is seen here at Barnard Castle, Galgate operating service 79 to Richmond Market Place on April 21st 2016.
The current 53-strong Horseman Coaches fleet is made up of Iveco (1), Mercedes-Benz (11) and Volvo (41) chassis with bodywork by Noone (1), Unvi (6) and Plaxton (46). Of the Plaxtons, there are examples of Cheetah (5), Elite (2), Leopard (8), Panther (30) and Profile (1) coachwork. An impressive 33 coaches are less than 3 years old!
Caetano Levante Volvo B8R 11/2013 as Yorkshire Traction 53733 Taken at The Watford Gap Service Area M1
A very sad day.
After 67 years Grangemouth coach company Fitzcharles has ceased trading today.
The company entered into liquidation and closed at 5pm.
Founded in 1948 the company started of with small premises selling and repairing cycles and prams and added coach hire, package holidays and day trips.
A very sad day for all involved.
Scania K440EB6 Caetano Levante new 2/2016 as National Express SH204 Taken in Victoria Coach Station London
Edwards Coaches Caetano Levante bodied Scania K410EB6 BV22VTU is seen here on Kingsway, Newport working the 509 to London.
Regent Coaches - Wright StreetLite WF - MX62 AOG seen on Wincheap Roundabout, Canterbury operating a Rail Replacement service on behalf of Southeastern on April 2nd 2023
DW Coaches of Clay Cross began overhauling their decker fleet last summer, primarily by replacing ageing Olympians with slightly younger ex Arriva London DAFs. Y516UGC is seen as it heads away from Spinkhill whilst operating this morning’s 141 from Killamarsh to St Mary’s in Chesterfield, one of three routes operated by DW for the school.