Four senior managers from the largest local bus operator in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire have been announced as Finalists for the Route One Awards – one of the most prestigious awards schemes in the UK’s public transport industry.

The news comes just weeks after it was announced that Stagecoach East itself had been made a Finalist in the “Large Operator of the Year” category.

Now, Charlton Thornhill, Head of Commercial, has been shortlisted in the Manager of the Year, Large Operator category, and Peter Collins, Engineering Manager at Fenstanton and Peterborough has been shortlisted for Engineer of the Year.

Meanwhile, Hayden Mustafa, now Operations Manager at Bedford has been acknowledged in the Rising Star category, and Martin Marsh, now Operations Manager at Cambridge is a Finalist for Manager of the Year, Small/Medium Operator.

The shortlists for the Route One Awards were decided by a panel of seven judges, including Joan Aitken OBE, former Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Mark Fowles OBE, former Managing Director of Nottingham City Transport, and Norman Thomas, former Product Engineering Manager for Volvo Bus.

Darren Roe, Managing Director of Stagecoach East, said: “This is wonderful news for the people involved and also for their teams. I am so proud of them all – of everything that they have already achieved at East, and everything that they will achieve in the industry.

“Getting to this level has taken a huge amount of dedication to consistently work for the benefit of our local customers and to improve what we do. I now just wish them every success at the next stage of judging. They continue to do our local communities and our region proud!”

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