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As of August 2024, Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire operates a fleet of 380 buses from five depots in Chester, Chorley, Gillmoss in Liverpool, Preston and the Wirral Peninsula. [1] Stagecoach has experimented with fleets of zero-emissions vehicles in co-operation with Merseytravel within the Liverpool City Region.
Merseytravel acts as the responsible authority for the planning and commissioning of local bus services in Liverpool and throughout the wider Merseyside area. [4] Currently, Arriva and Stagecoach provide the vast majority of local bus services within the city, with a number of smaller operators providing specific routes where there is a defined public need. [5]
Stagecoach Merseyside is a major operator of bus services in the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Merseyside region. It is a sub-division of Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire.
The Bus Services Act 2017 granted combined authorities such as the Liverpool City Region the ability to partially re-regulate their local bus services, permitting them to franchising services to commercial bus operators in a similar system to those operated by Transport for London. In November 2021, LCRA Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram announced ...
Stagecoach Gold is a luxury bus sub-brand used by various Stagecoach bus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom.. Stagecoach Gold (originally Goldline) was launched in 2007 and was designed to attract more middle-class passengers to choose bus travel as a method of transport as well as to reward passengers on some busy and popular routes.
Under the control of the National Bus Company, Cambus Ltd. was set up when the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company was split in preparation for privatisation. The company was incorporated on 8 June 1984; it took over Eastern Counties' bus and National Express coach operations from garages in Cambridgeshire and parts of Suffolk (Newmarket and Haverhill) on 9 September 1984. [2]
In 1996, British Bus was bought by the Cowie Group. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In November 1997 Cowie was rebranded as Arriva with North Western becoming Arriva North West in 1998. In February 2000, Arriva North West purchased MTL Trust Holdings , which created a larger presence in the Merseyside area and more than doubled the size of the company.
Stephensons of Essex [1] is a privately owned bus company based in Rochford, Essex. It operates local bus services throughout Essex and West Suffolk, from headquarters at Rochford, near Southend-on-Sea, and depots at Maldon, Boreham, Braintree and Haverhill. It also runs a bus and coach dealership and sales service.