2024 Results

Here are the Results of the UK Bus Awards 2024. Congratulations to all the companies, organisations and individuals on the list. The winners were announced at the presentation ceremony in London on Tuesday 26th November 2024.

Bus and the Community sponsored by Heathrow

Winner, Gold Award: Bristol Bus Boycott (First West of England)
Winner, Silver Award: Sanders Coaches
Winner, Bronze Award: Skegness Seasiders Fundraising (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Highly Commended: There is someone… (First West of England with Suicide Prevention UK)
Finalist: The Friendship Bus (Arriva South)
Finalist: Green Lane depot, Liverpool (Arriva)

Culture Change sponsored by Intuitive Talent Solutions

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

Engineer of the Year

Winner, Gold Award: Richard Burns (Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire)
Winner, Silver Award: Dennis Stuart (RATP Dev Transit London)
Winner, Bronze Award: Peter Collins (Stagecoach East)
Finalist: Adam Pugh (Stagecoach West)
Finalist: Dai Samuels (Stagecoach South Wales)

Environmental Innovation sponsored by CitySwift

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

Going for Growth sponsored by EPM Bus Solutions

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

Lifetime Contribution to the Bus Industry sponsored by Transport Benevolent Fund

Winner, Gold Award: Bill Hiron MBE

London Bus Garage of the Year sponsored by Transport for London

Winner, Gold Award: Westbourne Park (RATP Dev Transit London)
Winner, Silver Award: Tolworth (RATP Dev Transit London)
Winner, Bronze Award: Uxbridge (Metroline)
Finalist: Barking (Stagecoach London)
Finalist: Sutton (Go-Ahead London)

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

Winner, Gold Award: Donnette Miller (RATP Dev Transit London)
Winner, Silver Award: Mirela Mandzhukova (Metroline)
Winner, Bronze Award: Efe Oyeghe (Go-Ahead London)
Highly Commended: Diane Guirima Ide (RATP Dev Transit London)
Finalist: Najat El-Ghorri (Stagecoach London)
Finalist: Emmanuel George (Go-Ahead London)
Finalist: Filip Korycinski (Metroline)
Finalist: Keisha Quadros (RATP Dev Transit London)

Manager of the Year sponsored by Passenger Transport

Winner, Gold Award: Safiyyah Saiyed (RATP Dev Transit London)
Winner, Silver Award: Ian de Chastelain (Stagecoach East)
Winner, Bronze Award: Martin Marsh (Stagecoach East)
Highly Commended: Natalie Monaghan-Smith (Nottingham City Transport)
Finalist: Jacqui Carter (Metroline)
Finalist: Charlton Thornhill (Stagecoach East)

Marketing Campaign of the Year sponsored by Euro Bus Expo 2026

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

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

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

Recruitment and Retention sponsored by Camilleri Appointments

Winner, Gold Award: Elite Driver Academy (Go North West)
Winner, Silver Award: Driver Recruitment (Brighton & Hove Buses and Metrobus)
Winner, Bronze Award: Grimsby Depot (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Highly Commended: We are Lothian (Lothian Buses)
Finalist: Enhancing our Academy (Reading Buses)
Finalist: Somerset Passenger Solutions
Finalist: Stagecoach London recruitment campaign

Top City Operator sponsored by INIT Innovations in Transport

Winner, Gold Award: Nottingham City Transport
Winner, Silver Award: Brighton & Hove Buses
Winner, Bronze Award: Lothian Buses
Finalist: Diamond Bus North West
Finalist: First Glasgow
Finalist: Stagecoach Manchester

Top Independent Operator sponsored by Intsol Recruitment

Winner, Gold Award: Sanders Coaches
Winner, Silver Award: Coach Services
Winner, Bronze Award: Whippet
Finalist: Grant Palmer

Top National Bus Depot sponsored by Coach & Bus Week

Winner, Gold Award: Derby (Arriva)
Winner, Silver Award: Grimsby (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Winner, Bronze Award: Chester (Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire)
Finalist: Fenstanton (Stagecoach East)
Finalist: Foyle Street (Translink)
Finalist: Peterborough (Stagecoach East)
Finalist: St Andrew’s (Stagecoach East Scotland)

Top National Bus Driver: The Chris Moyes Memorial Award sponsored by BUSES magazine

Winner, Gold Award: Ivan Cochrane (Translink)
Winner, Silver Award: John O’Hara (Lothian Buses)
Winner, Bronze Award: Leroy Stewart (Translink)
Finalist: Martin Carlin (The Blackburn Bus Company)
Finalist: Ben Gibson (Translink)
Finalist: David Townsend (Nottingham City Transport)

Top Shire Operator sponsored by Ticketer

Winner, Gold Award: Reading Buses
Winner, Silver Award: Go South Coast
Winner, Bronze Award: LibertyBus
Finalist: Arriva Midlands
Finalist: Transdev Blazefield
Finalist: Warrington’s Own Buses

UK Bus Operator of the Year

Winner, Gold Award: Nottingham City Transport
Winner, Silver Award: Sanders Coaches
Winner, Bronze Award: Reading Buses

Unsung Hero sponsored by Backhouse Jones

Winner, Gold Award: Filica Patranoiu (Arriva UK Bus)
Winner, Silver Award: Brian Bowater (Nottingham City Transport)
Winner, Bronze Award: Nicholas Jago (Translink)
Finalist: Lee Arndell (Stagecoach South Wales)
Finalist: Shaun Clark (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Finalist: Martin Haig (Stagecoach East Scotland)
Finalist: Peter Jones (Arriva UK Bus)
Finalist: Dwayne Wells (Arriva Yorkshire)

Young Manager of the Year sponsored by Young Bus Professionals

Winner, Gold Award: George Sloan (Stagecoach West)
Winner, Silver Award: Ben Houghton (Stagecoach London)
Winner, Bronze Award: Josh Tobin (Somerset Passenger Solutions)