Buses Year Book 2026

Buses Yearbook 2026 follows a proven format with a mixture of articles on current and historic developments, strictly factual ones and others of a more whimsical or personal nature, all of them accompanied by a wide selection of photographs. These include the 40-year story of Optare which turned a factory closed by Leyland into a third force in British bus manufacturing; some of the coaches that Plaxton built for export markets; double-deck bus design; ‘bendybuses’ in British fleets; the 40th anniversary of buses outside London being deregulated; Scottish Bus Group buying policy in the 1980s; a fond look at Hulleys of Baslow which closed in 2025 after a century in business; coaches and buses taking spectators to the Epsom Derby; sampling bus services in Thomas Hardy Country, and much more.