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The bus service from London, England to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) was considered to be the longest bus route in the world. [1] [2] [3] The bus service, which started in 1957, was routed to India via Belgium, Yugoslavia and North Western India. [4] This route is also known as the Hippie Route. It took about 50 days for the bus to reach ...
Numerous United Kingdom–India bus routes ran from the 1950s to the 1970s. The first of these was "The Indiaman", a service from London to Calcutta that was inaugurated on 15 April 1957. At least 32 other operators ran services, including Albert Travel which ran 15 round journeys from London to India. Overland routes were made difficult by ...
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The red double-decker buses in London have become a national symbol of England. Most buses in London, as in the rest of the UK, are double-deckers. A particular example was the AEC Routemaster bus, which had been a staple of the public transport network in London for nearly half a century following its introduction in 1956. The remaining ...
v. t. e. Map of Bangladesh with existing rail and road links. Transport between India and Bangladesh bears much historical and political significance for both countries, which possessed no ground transport links for 43 years, starting with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947. The Kolkata – Dhaka Bus (1999) and the Dhaka– Agartala Bus ...
Switch Mobility (Optare until 2020) [1] is a British bus manufacturer based in Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire.It is a subsidiary of Indian company Ashok Leyland.The company is responsible for the EV operations of the group with Ashok Leyland focusing on its core business of diesel-powered vehicles as well as work on alternative fuels like compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas ...
Alongside the S series trucks, the SB bus was released in 1950, and immediately became a big seller in India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand and Africa, as well as in the UK. The SB chassis was also used as a basis for specialised vehicles, such as mobile libraries, fire engines, and civil defence control units.
A New Routemaster double-decker bus, operating for Arriva London on London Buses route 73 (2015) A New Flyer trolleybus operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in 1987. A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.