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Bugler Coaches is a bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

 and coach
Coach (vehicle)
A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...

 company which operates from Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

, England
England
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. The company runs coach day trip
Day Trip
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s to various destinations around England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. Passengers going on a day trip are usually picked up from either Bristol or Bath.

Buglers principle operations include a fleet of fully accessible coaches (see above article) and in 2009 the company was awarded the
UK Bus and Coach Industry's prize for accessibility.

More recently the company has developed a successful excursion program which it sees as the way ahead through the current financial climate.

Bus services

Buglers formerly operated the 532/533 bus service in Bristol which was later taken over by Wessex Connect and service 500 - Harbour Link which was scrapped by Bristol city council in 2011 due to funding cuts.

Incidents

In 2006, a coach operated by Buglers became stuck in a narrow country lane in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

, after a satellite navigation
Automotive navigation system
An automotive navigation system is a satellite navigation system designed for use in automobiles. It typically uses a GPS navigation device to acquire position data to locate the user on a road in the unit's map database. Using the road database, the unit can give directions to other locations...

system had identified it as a suitable route, resulting in the coach having to be driven across a field.
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