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[14] [15] In Dorset, it provides many school services for Dorset Council. [16] In July 2017, the company began to operate a Shaftesbury to Gillingham service. [17] In October 2017, after First Dorset had ended its service from Wyke Regis to Weymouth, South West Coaches agreed to a local request to take over the route. [18]
In September 2023, Stagecoach won contracts for 5 routes in Portsmouth previously run by First Hampshire & Dorset. [42] The company won further bus route contracts from January 2024, namely the D1, D2 and 27; with further enhancements to other bus routes, including the introduction of 24-hour operations on route 23. [43]
The university contract was renewed again in 2016, with 12 new ADL Enviro 400MMC buses introduced [8] and in 2022 a new fleet of ADL Enviro 400 double decker buses, with USB chargers for smart devices, free WiFi and the low emissions Euro 6 engine were introduced for the university routes, with the older buses reassigned to other morebus services.
Southern Vectis – The brand for all buses on the Isle of Wight; Swindon's Bus Company (formerly Thamesdown Transport) – The brand in Swindon. The company also has three coach brands: [11] Excelsior Coaches – Bournemouth, offering private coach hire, school services and tours; Damory Coaches – school buses and services in central East Dorset
The company celebrated the centenary of Wilts & Dorset in 2015 by repainting some of its buses into its pre-war and post-war liveries. [4] The operation had a livery redesign in February 2019. [ 5 ] This was alongside an order for three new electric buses to be placed on two Salisbury park and ride routes (PR9 and PR15).
The Jurassic Coaster is a bus service operated by the Weymouth branch of First Hampshire & Dorset, running around the Jurassic coastline of the county of Dorset. [1] It features five routes, stretching from Axminster in the west to Poole in the east, with one of the routes in TripAdvisor's 2018 poll of most scenic bus routes coming in 12th place.
Dorset is one of only five non metropolitan counties in England not to have a single motorway. However, two trunk road corridors run east–west through the county. In the north, the A303 London to Exeter and Cornwall road briefly enters the county, though for most of its route it is north of the borders with Somerset and Wiltshire.
The 'Do the Docks' tour was an open-top bus tour of Southampton docks, using open-top buses from the New Forest Tour and a debranded Wilts & Dorset Leyland Olympian. The service changed on 29 July 2007 as a result of low passenger numbers following poor weather during the 2007 summer season, with the service losing its "turn up and hop on ...