Cotswold Green

The Cotswold Green Blog! An occasional diary of events occuring in or around a small bus company in rural Gloucestershire.

Saturday, 27 August 2016

All Change!

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Many things have continued to occupy my time and leave me with none spare for blogging! Once again a random update post will have to suffice...
Saturday, 14 November 2015

How Many Vehicles?

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One of the major events that occurred during my latest period of absence from the wider world was the first stage of DDA legislation becomin...

The New Dark Ages

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And so I return to the Bloggosphere after another period away! I find it difficult to write when furious or when I have no time to think rat...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Good Bye Old Friend

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As the Optare chapter begins there is the closing of another chapter. H843 NOC has finally been taken away for its final trip to Barnsley (b...

Going Solo

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I have been resisting the temptation to follow the crowd and use the Optare Solo to start the low-floor conversion of the smaller vehicles i...
Friday, 30 March 2012

Diesel Dilemma!

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And the fuel crisis continues! Our regular petrol station is out of fuel again and has been for 36 hours now! It all started with a foolish ...
Sunday, 25 March 2012

New Routes - Old Routes

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Gloucestershire County Council has recently put a number of routes out to tender. Some were ours, some operated by others and some new! The ...
Sunday, 4 March 2012

How Much Information?

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How did we live without the internet years ago? Now rapidly approaching my fourth decade I can still remember life without it but I never re...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Financial MOTives

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Following the closure of our local VOSA Testing Station in Gloucester, we have been forced to find an alternative location for our MOT tests...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Before And After - R448 LGH

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I do like a bargain! After a trip to UK Bus Dismantlers at Bromyard to see one bus that was for sale, I found another one that I liked more....
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Rob Arkell
Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Director and 50% owner of Cotswold Green Ltd. Former Operations Manager of Ebley Bus Ltd and Former Commercial Manager for Stagecoach West.
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