Aviation Specials | Buses Yearbook 2026
Buses Yearbook 2026, the 62nd edition in the popular annual series produced by the team behind Buses magazine, offers a rich mix of insight and photo features on the present-day bus and coach scene plus past decades.
Features include:
• The 40-year story of Optare, which saw a factory closed by Leyland turned into a major force in British bus manufacturing
• Some of the coaches Plaxton built for export markets.
• Double-deck bus design
• ‘Bendybuses’ in British fleets
• The 40th anniversary of deregulation of buses outside London
• 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.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Aviation Specials Buses Yearbook 2026.