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UK express coach operators include: EasyBus. Green Line Coaches, part of Arriva. Megabus, part of Stagecoach. National Express Coaches. Parks Motor Group. Scottish Citylink. Categories: Bus operators in the United Kingdom.
Coach & Bus Week can trace its origins back to 1978 with the founding of Coachmart in Kingston upon Hull by former coach proprietor Terry Beanland. Coachmart was the first weekly magazine published specifically for the coach industry, who had previously had to rely on monthly magazines or small sections within Commercial Motor or other weekly commercial vehicle magazines.
The UK government established the Covid Bus Service Support Grant (CBSSG) which was paid to local governments outside Greater London to maintain bus services through the pandemic. [25] Greater London had a separate programme of support for its services, with frequent disputes between the UK government and Sadiq Khan , the Mayor of London at the time.
Stagecoach Group is a transport group based in Perth, Scotland. It operates buses and express coaches in the United Kingdom . Stagecoach was originally founded in 1976 as Gloagtrotter, a recreational vehicle and minibus hire business. During the early 1980s, it took advantage of the deregulation of the British express coach market, launching ...
Megabus (Europe) Megabus is a long-distance intercity coach service operator owned by Scottish Citylink and based in the United Kingdom. Founded by Stagecoach Group (through Midland Red (South) Ltd) in August 2003, it operates using low-cost fares, formerly starting at £1, based on a yield management model.
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The first example of private individuals preserving a bus in the UK was by four friends, Prince Marshall, Ken Blacker, Ron Lunn and Michael Dryhurst in 1956 who successfully purchased a 1929 AEC Regal fleet number T31, registration UU 6646, for the sum of £40. It was the last ex-London General Omnibus Company vehicle to be operated by London Transport.
By the turn of the decade, the company had made a significant number of acquisitions: Connor & Graham of Easington (1993), [11] Hart Coaches of Stockton-on-Tees (1995), [12] former GM Buses coaching arm Charterplan (1996), [13] Hollings Coaches of North Shields (1996), [14] former Busways Travel Services coach operator Armstrong Galley (1997), [15] and former KHCT coaching subsidiary ...