2024 Finalists

Here are the Finalists in the UK Bus Awards 2024. Congratulations to all the companies, organisations and individuals on the list. The winners will be announced at the presentation ceremony in London on Tuesday 26th November. Click here for more details. Buy tickets here.

All finalists can use the 2024 Finalist logo, which can be downloaded here.

Bus and the Community sponsored by Heathrow

Bristol Bus Boycott (First West of England)
Green Lane depot, Liverpool (Arriva)
Sanders Coaches
Skegness Seasiders Fundraising (Stagecoach East Midlands)
The Friendship Bus (Arriva South)
There is someone… (First West of England with Suicide Prevention UK)

Culture Change sponsored by Intuitive Talent Solutions

Culture Change at Diamond Bus North West
Driver culture change (Transport UK London Bus)
Engineering Safety Improvement Programme (Translink)
From Strikes to Strength (Go North East)
Improving Operations and Commercial relations Stagecoach East Midlands)
Improving the Driver-Controller relationship (RATP Dev transit London)
People at the Heart Capability Policy (Stagecoach South East)
Training through dramatised storytelling (Brighton & Hove Buses and Metrobus)

Engineer of the Year

Adam Pugh (Stagecoach West)
Dennis Stuart (RATP Dev Transit London)
Dai Samuels (Stagecoach South Wales)
Peter Collins (Stagecoach East)
Richard Burns (Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire)

Environmental Innovation sponsored by CitySwift

Augmented Engineer (Translink)
Electric Bus Charging Infrastructure project (Warrington’s Own Buses)
England and Wales first long distance electric coach service (FlixBus)
Net Zero Project (Stagecoach East)
Outdoor Sustainability Initiative (Global)
Summercourt depot EV charging hub (First Bus South)

Going for Growth

54 and X55 (Sanders Coaches)
Breckland Beeline (Coach Services)
Cheltenham 94/94X (Stagecoach West)
FlixBus
Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Zone
LibertyBus
More buses, new tickets, new buses, new look! (Portsmouth Buses Partnership)
The X10 De Havilland Express (Uno Bus)
Whippet

London Bus Garage of the Year sponsored by Transport for London

Barking (Stagecoach London)
Sutton (Go-Ahead London)
Tolworth (RATP Dev Transit London)
Uxbridge (Metroline)
Westbourne Park (RATP Dev Transit London)

Luke Rees-Pulley Award for Top London Bus Driver sponsored by The Luke Rees-Pulley Charitable Trust and TfL

Najat El-Ghorri (Stagecoach London)
Emmanuel George (Go-Ahead London)
Diane Guirima Ide (RATP Dev Transit London)
Filip Korycinski (Metroline)
Mirela Mandzhukova (Metroline)
Donnette Miller (RATP Dev Transit London)
Efe Oyeghe (Go-Ahead London)
Keisha Quadros (RATP Dev Transit London)

Manager of the Year

Charlton Thornhill (Stagecoach East)
Ian de Chastelain (Stagecoach East)
Jacqui Carter (Metroline)
Martin Marsh (Stagecoach East)
Natalie Monaghan-Smith (Nottingham City Transport)
Safiyyah Saiyed (RATP Dev Transit London)

Marketing Campaign of the Year

All Day Anywhere (North East Enhanced Partnership)
Edinburgh Bus Tours (Lothian Buses)
Free to Explore (First Bus Scotland)
Generation Go (Go East Anglia)
Get Your Bum On Board (Go North East)
Let’s go car free (Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire, Cumbria Tourism and Avanti West Coast)
Route 1X (Brighton & Hove Buses)

Partnership for Excellence: The Peter Huntley Memorial Award sponsored by OEL Nationwide Personnel

Breeze app (Solent Transport)
Grand Day Out (Stagecoach South Wales and Age Cymru)
Heathrow Bus & Coach Working Group
Leicester Buses Partnership
Let’s go car free (Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire, Cumbria Tourism and Avanti West Coast)
Oxfordshire Bus Enhanced Partnership
Portsmouth Buses Partnership
Reading Buses and Heathrow
Stagecoach South East with East Sussex and Kent County Councils
Student Travel Pass (Stagecoach East Midlands, trentbarton, Nottinghamshire County Council and West Notts College)

Recruitment and Retention sponsored by Camilleri Appointments

Driver Recruitment (Brighton & Hove Buses and Metrobus)
Elite Driver Academy (Go North West)
Enhancing our Academy (Reading Buses)
Grimsby Depot (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Somerset Passenger Solutions
Stagecoach London recruitment campaign
We are Lothian (Lothian Buses)

Top City Operator sponsored by Init

Brighton & Hove Buses
Diamond Bus North West
First Glasgow
Lothian Buses
Nottingham City Transport
Stagecoach Manchester

Top Independent Operator sponsored by Intsol Recruitment 

Coach Services
Grant Palmer
Sanders Coaches
Whippet

Top National Bus Depot

Chester (Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire)
Derby (Arriva)
Fenstanton (Stagecoach East)
Foyle Street (Translink)
Grimsby (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Peterborough (Stagecoach East)
St Andrew’s (Stagecoach East Scotland)

Top National Bus Driver: The Chris Moyes Memorial Award

Ben Gibson (Translink)
David Townsend (Nottingham City Transport)
Ivan Cochrane (Translink)
John O’Hara (Lothian Buses)
Leroy Stewart (Translink)
Martin Carlin (The Blackburn Bus Company)

Top Shire Operator sponsored by Ticketer

Arriva Midlands
Go South Coast
LibertyBus
Reading Buses
Trasdev Blazefield
Warrington’s Own Buses

UK Bus Operator of the Year

The finalists in this category will be the winners of the Top City, Independent and Shire Operator categories, which will be announced on 26th November.

Unsung Hero sponsored by Backhouse Jones

Brian Bowater (Nottingham City Transport)
Dwayne Wells (Arriva Yorkshire) – to be recognised for his continuing work etc.
Filica Patranoiu (Arriva UK Bus)
Lee Arndell (Stagecoach South Wales)
Martin Haig (Stagecoach East Scotland)
Nicholas Jago (Translink)
Peter Jones (Arriva UK Bus)
Shaun Clark (Stagecoach East Midlands)

Young Manager of the Year sponsored by Young Bus Professionals

Ben Houghton (Stagecoach London)
George Baker (Belle Vue Manchester)
Josh Tobin (Somerset Passenger Solutions)