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Stagecoach X5
Stagecoach X5 is an inter-urban bus service linking Oxford and Bedford via Bicester, Buckingham and Milton Keynes Service started in 1992 with an hourly service between Oxford and Cambridge, which was increased to half-hourly in 2005; new vehicles were introduced in 2009 and again in 2015. It operates with a 30-minute frequency for much of the day. Vehicles advertise free WiFi access, air conditioning and leather seats and are wheelchair accessible. The route carried 500,000 users in 2008; passenger numbers grew by 150% between 2004 and 2009, leading to some problems with overcrowding. As of 2014, according to Stagecoach East's Managing Director, Andy Campbell, the route carries on average 1.3 million passengers annually. It is operated by the group's Stagecoach in Bedford division. At the end of August 2020, the route was reduced to terminate at Bedford, with passengers on the BedfordCambridge leg being transferred to a local bus service. , to travel between Oxford and Cambri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stagecoach Bedford 52024 L159 LBW
A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, ) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses. Commonly used before steam-powered rail transport was available, a stagecoach made long scheduled trips using stage stations or posts where the stagecoach's horses would be replaced by fresh horses. The business of running stagecoaches or the act of journeying in them was known as staging. Some familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, a highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver" and a Wells Fargo stagecoach arriving at or leaving an American frontier town. The yard of ale drinking glass is associated by legend with stagecoach drivers, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyboston
Wyboston is a village in the English county of Bedfordshire, close to the town of St Neots and the Cambridgeshire border. The eastern part of the village is dominated by the A1 Great North Road. Approaching the Black Cat roundabout from the Bedford direction, the parish boundary is in the centre of the A421 road. The northern junction of these roads is grade-separated. Wyboston is in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden. The remainder of Wyboston is horticultural and agricultural as a result of the proximity of the River Great Ouse. Wyboston Lakes Resort at the edge of the village includes a golf course, hotel, spa, serviced offices and conference & training facilities. Wyboston is also the location of a conference centre owned and operated by Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxton, Bedfordshire
Roxton is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England about north-east of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census gives the population of Roxton as 348. History In the 1970s, a Bronze Age Round barrow#Britain, barrow cemetery in the form of five ring ditches was excavated prior to gravel extraction. Two urned Secondary cremation, primary cremation burials were found. The site, near to the Ouse, is now a lake. Archaeological evidence of Romano-British occupation was found in trenches dug in 2007 east of the Black Cat roundabout. Roxton is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The entry reads: ''Rochesdone/stone: Rhiwallon from Hugh de Beauchamp; William Speke. Mill (260 eels).'' The hamlets of Chawston and Colesden were part of Roxton civil parish until 1 April 2007, when they together with Wyboston (part of Roxton parish from 1965) separated to form a new civil parish. Governance Roxton Parish Council has seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo B10M
The Volvo B10M is a mid-engine design, mid-engined city bus and coach (bus), coach chassis manufactured by Volvo Buses, Volvo between 1978 and 2003. It succeeded the Volvo B58, B58 and was equipped with the same 9.6-litre horizontally mounted Volvo diesel engine mounted under the floor behind the front axle. An articulated bus, articulated version under the model name Volvo B10MA was also offered, as was a semi-integral version known as the Volvo C10M, C10M, with the engine in the middle of the chassis. History Designed as a successor to the Volvo B58, a large portion of B10M chassis were built in Sweden, but some were built in other countries, like the United Kingdom and Brazil.Evolução do Produto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaxton Premiere
The Plaxton Premiere, Plaxton Excalibur and Plaxton Prima were closely related designs of coach bodywork built by Plaxton. Variants Premiere Internally codenamed 'Project X' during its development, the Plaxton Premiere was revealed in August 1991 as the successor to Plaxton's versatile Paramount body, later receiving official launches on the Volvo B12 chassis at the 1991 Bus and Coach Show at both the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham and the 1991 European Bus and Touring Coach Fair in Kortrijk. At launch, the Premiere was available for bodying on the Volvo B10M, Volvo B12B, Scania K93 and K113, and Dennis Javelin coach chassis, with all but the then-new Volvo B12 previously offered for the Paramount; Premieres also began to be bodied on the DAF SB3000 chassis in 1995. The Premiere was built with a welded steel frame, with galvanised steel panels on the top half of the body and lower panels manufactured through resin transfer moulding. A more rounded front end when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Arnold
Wallace Arnold was one of the UK's largest holiday motorcoach tour operators. History Wallace Arnold was founded in 1912 and was named after two of its founders Wallace Cunningham and Arnold Crowe. In 1926, the Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust was founded by Robert Barr, and would continue running the company for 76 years. After having sold its Kippax Motors and Farsley Omnibus stagecarriage operations to the Leeds Corporation in 1968, in February 1969, Wallace Arnold purchased the Evan Evans tour business in London. In the late 1970s, Wallace Arnold commenced operating express coach services under the Euroways brand to Continental Europe. By the time that coach services were deregulated by the Transport Act 1980 in October 1980, Wallace Arnold operated 290 coaches from its headquarters in Gelderd Road, Wortley, Leeds, and also owned a subsidiary based in Devon. Immediately following deregulation, Wallace Arnold was a founding member of the British Coachways consortium that compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buses Magazine
''Buses'' is a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom that primarily focuses on the British bus and coach industry. Founded in 1949, the magazine was originally published by Ian Allan Publishing, however from March 2012 onwards, it has been published by Key Publishing after their takeover of the former. The current editor is James Day and is published on the third Thursday of each month. The magazine is accompanied by a yearbook published in August every year for the next year. Since 2014, the publisher operates annual show every August called 'Buses Festival' at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Buses Festival is one of the largest shows for bus enthusiasts to see modern and classic vehicles on display and for traders to sell bus models, literature, photos and bus accessories. History ''Buses'' was published as ''Buses Illustrated'' by Ian Allan Publishing from 1949 until 1968. The magazine started publishing in its usual monthly cycle from Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luton
Luton () is a town and borough in Bedfordshire, England. The borough had a population of 225,262 at the 2021 census. Luton is on the River Lea, about north-west of London. The town's foundation dates to the sixth century as a Saxon settlement on the river, from which Luton derives its name. Luton is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Loitone'' and ''Lintone''. One of the largest churches in Bedfordshire, St Mary's Church, was built in the 12th century. There are local museums which explore Luton's history in Wardown Park and Stockwood Park. Luton was once known for hatmaking and also had a large Vauxhall Motors factory. Car production at the plant began in 1905 and continued until its closure in 2002. Production of commercial vehicles continues and the head office of Vauxhall Motors is in the village of Chalton on the northern border of the borough . London Luton Airport opened in 1938 and is now one of Britain's major airports, with three railway stations also in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East West Rail
East West Rail (or the East West Main Line, EWML) is a strategic aim to establish a new main line railway between East Anglia and Oxfordshire. The immediate plan is to build (or rebuild) a line linking Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester, Milton Keynes (at Bletchley) and Bedford, largely using the trackbed of the former Varsity Line. Thus it provides a potential route between any or all of the Great Western, Cotswold, Chiltern, West Coast, Midland, East Coast, West Anglia and Great Eastern main lines, avoiding London. The government approved the western section (between Oxford and Bedford) in November 2011. The eastern section (east of Cambridge), the new BedfordCambridge route and the OxfordBedford improvements are categorised as a nationally significant infrastructure project. The line was initially promoted (as the East West Rail Link) by the East-West Rail Consortium, a consortium of local authorities and interested bodies along the route. (That consortium is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeching Cuts
The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s. They are named for Dr. Richard Beeching, then-chair of the British Railways Board and the author of two reports''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes'' (1965) that set out proposals for restructuring the railway network, with the stated aim of improving economic efficiency. The first report identified 2,363 stations and of railway line for closure, amounting to 55% of stations, 30% of route miles, and the loss of 67,700 British Rail jobs, with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport and reducing the rail subsidies necessary to keep the network running. The second report identified a small number of major routes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
