The Velvet Bus Blog

Sunday, 28 November 2010

Move on, nothing to see here!

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I have finally decided to bring this blog to an end! But all is not lost - join me in my new home for a full explanation, and even a new p...
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Monday, 12 April 2010

Rubbish!

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My job involves me in some unusual tasks, so here is the story of how I ended up rooting around in the bins in Eastleigh Bus Station. Sharon...
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Monday, 15 February 2010

It must be love!

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Evidence of the much-improved relations between Velvet and Bluestar came today in the form of a photoshoot ahead of a new joint initiative t...
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Thursday, 4 February 2010

I wish to complain...

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Luckily for us, complaints don't happen very often. However, Mikey took one this afternoon that has put us firmly in our place! Leigh Ro...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Another Little Duck

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We were expecting Donald some time this week, but didn't really know when. In the event it came today! The first we knew about it was w...
Saturday, 30 January 2010

Introducing Daisy and Donald...

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Following on from our success in winning a four-year contract for route 22 in Southampton, we needed to find a suitable vehicle with which t...
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On the Wagon

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An interesting day today, the highlight of which lasted no more than a couple of minutes! It was a typical Saturday, spent the morning and e...
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Phil Stockley
Welcome to my blog! On these pages you will find a series of posts dating from 2010 to 2018, spanning a period of my career in which I ran my own bus company in Southampton (Velvet), then moved on to Wellglade Group to run TM Travel before moving into the Group Development Director role; then finally ending up at HCT Group - latterly as Commercial Director. These days I'm working for FirstBus as part of their franchise bidding team, and time and circumstances mean it's no longer possible to keep this blog up to date. But I'm happy to leave my musings in place for anyone interested to read. Earlier posts tend to concern themselves with the day to day minutiae of running a small bus company in Hampshire; in later posts I talk about wider industry issues. I hope you will find something of interest and, who knows, maybe in the future circumstances will allow me to get out the virtual pen and start writing again!
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