Welcome to Opentopbus.net

Welcome to the Opentopbus web site. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about open top buses all over the world. This will include lists of all known open top buses, including current, withdrawn and long gone buses; operator lists, location lists, photographs and articles.

This site is currently being developed and we hope to bring you lots more information. The design is deliberately rather basic at present while we develop the content. If you would like to comment on anything, or offer any information, please contact us by e-mail by clicking here. Thank you.

Updated on Monday 6 October 2008

MONDAY 6 OCTOBER 2008 - NEW LIST ADDED FOR OPERATORS ON MALTA.

It is the end of Summer now in the UK, but a lot of the buses listed here are still active. Some operating frequencies have been reduced, but the buses are still there and available for hires too. The Current Operators Lists have been updated again today. These contain details of open top buses in regular use, such as sightseeing tours, regular bus services, sea front services, special events and private hire companies. It does not yet include details of the many buses that are privately owned or in museums, private collections, non-psvs, or exhibition/promotional buses, etc. These will follow later. We also intend to publish details of all open top buses that have been and gone, and are now scrapped or whereabouts unknown. There are currently over 1,800 open top buses recorded in the database, so you can see we have a job on.

This website is run by a very small team of people who have other jobs to do, so this is a hobby to them, but one which they treat seriously. However, as for any individual, there are limitations of time after work, domestic life, and dare I say it, holidays. The good thing about holidays is that they can be spent seeking out and recording some of the buses that are listed on this website. We are working whenever possible on gathering data to present to you.

If you any information that you would like to offer to us, we would be delighted to hear from you. This of course applies to lists or individual pieces of information on any open top bus or operator. Please send any contributions using the link at the top of the page.

Meanwhile, happy browsing.

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The bus industry is constantly changing, and even in the open top business, there are regular changes to both vehicles and operators. The purpose of this website is to record these changes with detailed notes. To keep up to date on a daily basis, you may like to join The Opentopbus Group, a constantly growing e-mail news group specifically for sharing news, views, questions and answers, photos and more, all in relation to open top buses anywhere in the world. To join the group, you will need an e-mail address and a Yahoo ID!. However, you can create an account if you don’t already have one.

Previous updates:-

06/10/08 - New list added for operators on Malta.

21/09/08 - Updates and amendments made for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland

15/08/08 - Details added for Ayr, Scotland, and amended for Allen’s Tours, Belfast

11/08/08 - Details amended for Ardrossan, Scotland

21/07/08 - Details added and updated for British Isles

29/10/07 - List updated for England

24/09/07 - List updated for Scotland

09/10/06 - List started for Spain. More to come

29/09/06 - Information added for Aberdeen, Scotland, and updated for Stirling, Scotland

13/09/06 - The time has come to start adding overseas information, and you have to start somewhere, so lists have been started for Denmark, France, Gibraltar, Iceland and Singapore. Work is ongoing as usual, but please don’t assume that we know it all, because we don’t, so let us know if you can add anything. Next in line are the USA, Spain and Italy, together with updated information from the UK and Ireland

09/09/06 - Current Allocations for Republic of Ireland updated

01/09/06 - Current Allocations for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales updated

30/08/06 - Current Allocations for England updated

24/01/06 - Arriva OLST, London; Summercourt Travel, Newquay; - Lists amended
06/12/05 - Addition: List for The Big Bus Company, London

29/11/05 - All lists updated and split into separate pages for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland

10/11/05 - Additions:- Lists for Whitby (Coastal and Country Coaches, and Dunn-Line)

08/11/05 - Additions:- Lists for Coleraine, Cork (Bus Eireann), Galway (Healy and Lally), Limerick, Sligo, Ayr, Isle of Bute

Updated information for London (Arriva OLST), Belfast, Derry, Dublin (Dublin Bus), Dublin (McConn/Dualway/Irish City), Cork (Cronin), Lake District, Oban and St. Andrews

21/10/05 - Additions:- Lists for Ryan’s (Citytour), Bath; Wilts & Dorset, Bournemouth; Yellow Buses, Bournemouth; Brighton & Hove, Brighton; Southern Vectis, Isle of Wight; Mac Tours, Edinburgh

Updated information for River Link, Dartmouth; Edinburgh Tours, Edinburgh; Lothian Buses, Edinburgh
10/10/05 - Additions:- Lists for Lake District (Stagecoach in Cumbria), BURNHAM-ON-SEA - Brean & Berrow, CHEDDAR GORGE - Brean & Berrow, CORK – Bus Eireann, DARTMOUTH – River Link?, LIVERPOOL - Maghull Coaches, OBAN – West Coast Motors, SOUTHPORT - Arriva North West

Headings for SKEGNESS - Road Car, AYR - Stagecoach Western Buses, BOURNEMOUTH - Wilts & Dorset Bus Co, BOURNEMOUTH - Yellow Buses, CORNWALL (Penzance, Newquay, St Ives etc) - First Devon & Cornwall, DUBLIN – Dublin Bus – The Original Dublin Tour, EDINBURGH - Mac Tours, ISLE OF ARRAN - Stagecoach Western Buses, ISLE OF WIGHT - Southern Vectis – The Sandown Tour, etc, LLANBERIS - KMP, LONDON - The Big Bus Company, RHYL - Arriva Cymru – service buses, SCARBOROUGH - East Yorkshire Motor Services, SCARBOROUGH - SS Suncruisers, ST. ANDREWS - Stagecoach Fife – The St. Andrews Tour, TORQUAY - Stagecoach Devon, WESTON-SUPER-MARE - First Somerset & Avon, WEYMOUTH - First Dorset?, WHITBY - ? – The Whitby Tour, PRESERVED/MUSEUMS - Various and lots

05/10/05 - First listing created for Main Allocations 2005 page - vehicles operated by City Sightseeing and Guide Friday

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