Coach & Bus Week

Coach & Bus Week (CBW) is a weekly trade magazine based in Peterborough for the road passenger transport industry in the United Kingdom. The magazine is available by subscription, from main branches of WHSmith and from some independent newsagents.

Profile
Regular features of Coach & Bus Week include News, Coach News, Bus News, International News, Regional News, Drivers' Pages, Industry, Operator Profiles, Test Drives, Technical and Product/Services features, Open Platform, Deliveries, People News and Recruitment. The magazine is linked with Group Travel World, a monthly magazine for the group travel industry published by GTW Media Limited, which additionally is sent to all full subscribers of Coach & Bus Week.

History
Coach & Bus Week can trace its origins back to 1978 with the founding of Coachmart in Kingston upon Hull by former coach proprietor Terry Beanland. Its most prolific journalist was Ray Pearson, who covered all technical aspects, including road tests and tourism topics. The weekly magazine was purchased by EMAP and moved to Peterborough. The publisher was EMAP Response (later renamed EMAP Automotive), which purchased Bus Business from Landor Publishing in 1989.

In 1992, following a downturn in advertising revenue as a result of the early 1990s recession, EMAP closed Bus Business and Coachmart. In their place, it launched Coach and Bus Week. The first weekly issue was published on 22 February 1992. The editor-in-chief was Mark Barton, the news and technical editor was Richard Simpson, the features editor was Mike Morgan, and the tourism editor was Mark Williams. The long-term editor of the magazine during this period was Mike Morgan, who left the post in August 2003.

EMAP sold Coach & Bus Week to Rouncy Media Ltd in 2005, however the magazine has been published by Coach and Bus Week Limited since 2012, with Rouncy ceasing trading in June 2012.

Former editors Gareth Evans and James Day left the magazine in May 2018 and April 2020 respectively. The current editor is Richard Sharman.