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  2. Bus transport in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Almost all of the UK bus industry was by then owned by the government under the National Bus Company or by local governments. Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary ...

  3. Spider map - Wikipedia

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    A spider map is a schematic diagram of bus services serving a particular locality, as used by Transport for London since 2002. [1] The maps were designed by T-Kartor . Generally mounted on the vertical surfaces of bus shelters it enables potential travellers to select the correct stop to board a bus, and the correct one to alight at.

  4. Centrebus Group - Wikipedia

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    Centrebus Group, [1] is a public transport company based in Leicester with bus services in the Midlands, North West and South East of England. Owned by Julian Peddle , the group contains Chaserider , [ 2 ] Centrebus , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] High Peak Buses [ 6 ] and D&G Bus .

  5. Transport in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Since deregulation the majority (80% by the late 1990s [49]) of these local bus companies have been taken over by one of the "Big Five" private transport companies: Arriva, FirstGroup, Go-Ahead Group, Mobico Group and Stagecoach Group. In Northern Ireland, coach, bus (and rail) services remain state-owned and are provided by Translink.

  6. Bustimes.org - Wikipedia

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    [3] The site uses data from AVL tracking to determine and transmit the geographic location of a vehicle, such as data from Ticketer machines and the iBus system, in order to display live bus positions on a map. [citation needed] [3] The site also uses data from the National Public Transport Gazetteer, and bus stop locations from NaPTAN.

  7. White Bus Services - Wikipedia

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    White Bus Services was sold to Fernhill Travel of Bracknell in November 2016, which is managed by Rowgate Group's chairman, Simon Rowland. [3]In 2017, following Abellio's departure from Surrey bus operations, White Bus were awarded contracts in the Staines area for routes 438, 566/567 and Sunday operations of routes 446 and 456.

  8. First Eastern Counties - Wikipedia

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    An Eastern Counties Bristol VRT double decker bus made international headlines when it fell rear-first into a 26 feet (7.9 m) sinkhole formed from a medieval chalk mine running underneath Earlham Road in Norwich on 3 March 1988. The driver of the bus as well as the passengers on board managed to escape minutes before the bus fell further into ...

  9. Canada Water bus station - Wikipedia

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    The glass-roofed bus station was designed by Eva Jiřičná. [2] It is a hub for services in the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey areas as well as an interchange for the tube station. Its most distinctive feature is a row of 16 m (52 ft)-long roof spans cantilevered from a row of central columns supporting a 100 m (330 ft)-long glass and aluminium ...