Exploring the coast
Our latest exciting network development broke this week after Easter Monday. From May, Southwestbus will be adding more vehicles to it's Minehead operation as we commence operations along the Exmoor coast from Somerset into Devon. Possible for us to thunder up Countisbury with a Leyland Leopard coach too. That'll make a lovely noise. It's all part of our expansion into a new market following the horrible events of last summer. The Minehead operation was initially meant to be a few buses but some other events with a real coach operator on a school trip has seen Somerset Council engage other operators for a number of their schools contracts as that coach operator comes to terms with what happened, and they've decided to reduce the size of their business. Southwestbus is primarily a coach operation and it undertakes a lot of school transport contracts. Adding in college services on top, just over 100 vehicles in the fleet are used on this work. That is slightly bigger...