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Salisbury bus station was a bus station in the city of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The station had five stands underneath a red brick building which was built in 1939 as the headquarters of the Wilts & Dorset bus company. [1] It was closed in 2014 on the grounds of high maintenance costs.
The Plusbus scheme was launched in October 2002 across an initial 35 railway stations. [1] The scheme is administered by Journey Solutions, a not for profit partnership of bus operators Arriva , FirstGroup , Go-Ahead , National Express and Stagecoach , the Confederation of Passenger Transport and the Rail Delivery Group .
Salisbury to Romsey, with a branch to Bournemouth; At Salisbury, the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Westbury and Bristol had its own terminus: the L&SWR continued the route southeast towards Southampton. This route is known nowadays as the Wessex Main Line. Between Salisbury and Exeter: Salisbury to Yeovil, opened 2 May 1859
The Yeovil station was the Bristol and Exeter Railway station at Hendford, up until then the terminus of their line from Durston. The two companies planned a joint station which became Yeovil Town, and the B&ER made a separate narrow gauge track from the point of junction to Hendford, providing mixed gauge track in their goods yard there. [1]
Salisbury Reds is a bus operator in Salisbury, as well as the surrounding Wiltshire area. It is part of the Go South Coast sector of the Go-Ahead Group . Much of the company's operations formerly came under the Wilts & Dorset brand, though this was phased out from 2012.
In June 1987, Wilts & Dorset was sold in a management buyout. [5] The new company fought off competition from Charlie's Cars [6] and Badger Vectis. [7]Damory Coaches of Blandford Forum was purchased in May 1993, followed by Oakfield Travel [8] and Stanbridge & Crichel Bus Company in November 1993, [9] and by Blandford Bus Company in January 1994; [10] all were combined under the Damory Coaches ...
The Bristol bus station, in Marlborough Street, was opened in 1958. It was redeveloped in 2006 There are three main bus companies operating across the Greater Bristol area. They are First West of England, [1] Stagecoach South West and Big Lemon. They provide services around Bristol and into South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
A bill was deposited in Parliament in November 1882, for a line to branch away from the LSWR between Salisbury and Basingstoke at a point around two miles west of Grateley railway station. It would cross the plain via Amesbury and Shrewton to Westbury and then on to Bristol via either the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway or the North Somerset ...