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Midland Red Eastern Coach Works bodied Leyland Leopard in National Holidays livery. From 1986, bus services in the UK were deregulated and progressively privatised, with the remaining larger companies forcibly broken up. NBC was divided into 70 units, with the first sale being of National Holidays to Pleasurama in July 1986. [19]
Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) [1] is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom.The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, self-drive holidays and river cruises throughout the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland and Continental Europe.
Over recent years, the company has expanded by acquiring several smaller local firms. Today, their fleet consists mainly of single decker coaches used for holiday tours and private hire but they also have a number of double-decker buses primarily for school contracts and park and ride services. Edwards Coaches carry around 7,100 students to ...
Coach services were deregulated under the Transport Act 1980, and buses by the Transport Act 1985. In March 1988 National Express was privatised in a management buyout. [6] In July 1989, the company bought ATL Holdings [7] (with operations in Sheffield) and a 50% share in Yelloway Trathen, which was renamed Trathens Travel Services. [8] [9]
This is a list of bus and coach operators of the United Kingdom. The list includes both current and historic entities, private companies and public operators, sub-brands and holding companies and public transport , private hire and tour operators.
In 1972, the National Bus Company formed the brand 'National Travel' (soon to be re-branded as National Express) to run long-distance coach services. Most of the coach operations of NBC's subsidiaries in England and Wales were franchised to National Express - the individual bus companies mostly continued to own the coaches, but were required to ...
Mobico Group, formerly National Express Group, is a British multinational public transport company with headquarters in Birmingham, England. [3] Domestically it currently operates bus and coach services under brands including National Express.
Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.