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Our latest post about the transport industry and technologyAwards Season Is Upon Us: Showcasing The Best Of The Best!
Well, my dear reader chum, it is that time of the year again, when the dinner jackets are dusted down, the phone calls to weight watchers have been made, to reduce that weighline, and the hotels and travel arrangements have all been made. Within less than a month the...
read moreUK Bus Awards 2018:Busmark Shortlisted
Given recent circumstances it was really good to see for the very first time that the medium of social media revealed just who had been shortlisted for the prestigious UK Bus Awards. For myself, the excellent and steadfast Chris Ruane and energetic and enthusiastic...
read moreCaptains Log: Stardate 11 October 2018. Cancer Has Arrived!
I last blogged on October 1st just after I had returned from two weeks in hospital, after I had been operated on for at the time was a life changing surgery, not that I knew anything about it. The reality was that unbeknown to me dark forces had gathered internally...
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Captains Log: Monday 1st October 2018
Well, my dear reader chum, it has been a while. I hope that this latest blog finds all in splendid form, bright eyed and bushy tailed as they used to say. I have been away for quite some time, I would love to say that I have been a bit self indulgent and admit that I...
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The Noble Art Of Depot Management
I was most delighted to recently spend a most enjoyable evening in good old London Town with two fine chaps, one a gentleman that I have known for years indeed we started our careers at virtually the same time. A true bus gentleman of the old school, he has gone on to...
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Focus Grasshopper, Focus…..
The vast majority of people who read these blogs, will probably have never heard of a programme that used to be highly popular back in the mid seventies of the previous millennium.. Suffice to say it had a profound effect on me that continues to this day. I talk of...
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I’m Just Off To Catch The Eleven Minutes Late..Choo Choo
The immortal comedy that was the late Leonard Rossiter who played Reginald Perrin, left many a classic line. One of which was the chap who each day caught his train for the daily commute not as the 0730 from Hemel Hampstead but as the Eleven Minutes late. It seems...
read moreDouglas Adie; A Gentlman Of The National Bus Company!
it is often said that you can judge the impact of a life by judging the flow of warmth and affection after a person has passed away. Sadly for me I was unable to attend a recent memorial service for a man who was greatly liked and admired throughout his career as a...
read moreThe Value Of The Traffic Commissioners; Then And Now
i have heard many lively debates with friends over the years about the role and the value that the Traffic Commissioners bring to the Bus and Coach Industry. Mind you I have also heard blistering attacks and noisy negativity by some who more often than not have been...
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Keeping Passengers Safe: Getting The Basics Right!
There was a really good debate earlier this week when I had the honour of chairing another excellent Busmark workshop held in Reading care of my dear chum Martjin Gilbert who has now officially left as the CEO of Reading Buses after what I have to say has been an...
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Reflections on A Great Friend and Colleague, Sean Simpson On His Retirement.
Well I never thought in my wildest dreams that it would ever happen but I have finally bitten the bullet and gone all out to turn an idea into a reality. When I first started writing blogs back in 2012 little did I ever think that I would be churning them out 8 years...
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CILT: Shaping The Future
The grand ballroom of the super smart RAF Club based slap bang in Mayfair in the centre of London was the venue for an excellent day of lively debate and vision planning from a group of enthusiastic individuals who were representative of CILT’s representative lead...
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CILT And The RAF; One Hundred Years Not Out, Nearly!
I will be attending a meeting in London soon, it is being held at the rather nice RAF club in central London, I have stayed there a few times, back in the day when my brother was a serving officer and occasionally we would meet in central London, enjoy a pie and a...
read moreTransdev Blazefield : A Very Good Bus Company Indeed!
It was with a sense of nostalgia that I travelled back to what I suppose was my career launchpad, the place where I started my journey in the Bus industry. I talk of my return to the hallowed ground of Harrogate nestling in the beauty of the Yorkshire moors, and one...
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MP’s Launch Inquiry Into The UK Bus Market…Happy Days
It was with a sense of relief if I am honest that I read in the excellent CILT weekly news bulletin that kindly informed me that Lillian Greenwood MP, the excellent Chairman of the Transport Select Committee has announced that at long last there is to a proper inquiry...
read moreAttending Prime Ministers Question Time…Order, Order,
I actually went to Prime Ministers question time, it was on November 11 th 2005, and I recalll it vividly for two reasons one I will share and one I regret I cannot, (suffice to say it involved Paddington Bear). I had been invited by a man who I liked a lot to attend...
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The World Cup….A Russian Triumph
Well, like him or loathe him you cannot knock Vladimir Putin and the success of the Russian World Cup tournament. Against all the negativity of those who warned people not to go against allegations of unfriendliness, racism, and thuggery, the truth is that Russia...
read moreBucharest Metro …Read All About It !
I remember the days when we used to travel to visit my cousin and the family in Bucharest from Mangalia, my hometown on the Black Sea coast. Making my way from a small place to what felt like the biggest place in the world to a 7-year-old boy. Arriving in Gara de Nord...
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