40 years of Bus Business – July 1986

Saturday 4th July 2026 Thanks for all the positive comments following last month’s blogpost marking the publication of the first issue of Bus Business in June 1986 . Among the reactions was the following from the newspaper’s founder and managing editor Peter Stonham: “thanks for your delightful reflections on the 40th anniversary of Bus Business. You have excellent memory, an obvious great archiving capability, and a ‘news nose’ that seems strangely familiar to me ….Thanks a lot for this recognition of a significant chapter of my life, and moment of fascinating nostalgia “ Peter went on to recall “for the historical record, Bus Business was absorbed into another bus and coach travel trade publication three years later, and Local Transport Today began as another new publication in April 1989 to provide wider news, analysis, and commentary on transport policy, planning, and management, beginning another significant new transport publishing era, that still continues online.” Let’s…