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The brand was launched in December 2004 as a premium service replacing routes 101 to 105 between Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch, and routes 155, 156 and 157 between Poole and Canford Heath. The service launched with 30 Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLE single-deck buses. The buses carried a livery of mostly dark blue with red at the back ...
The Christchurch turntable is said to be one of only five trolleybus turntables ever to have been constructed worldwide. Three other such turntables are the similarly abandoned Longwood trolleybus turntable, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (in operation 1939–1940; demolished late 1980s), one at the former Isleworth London Transport Trolleybus depot, also demolished but can be seen ...
Bustimes.org is a transportation information website created to take advantage of Bus Services Act 2017 requirement for bus operators in England to provide bus timetables, fares and vehicle locations in an open data format, which can be utilised by app and website developers. [2] This DfT service is called the Bus Open Data Service.
Bournemouth railway station also serves as a hub for local bus services. The down side of the station is Bournemouth Travel Interchange is served by Morebus, which operates frequent buses to the town centre and to Bournemouth Airport. It is also a stop on National Express coach routes which serve the town. [10]
Shamrock Buses was established in 2002 to help create funds for the maintenance and restoration of the Bournemouth Passenger Transport Association (BPTA) museum fleet. The BPTA had previously operated a small number of routes in competition with Yellow Buses between 1993 and 1994, and had co-operated with the company to run a joint heritage ...
The new routes, and the rushed introduction of the new timetables, led to scores of complaints from passengers [12] and in October that year, Bournemouth Transport Limited, which owned and ran Yellow Buses, posted pre-tax losses of £124,000 at Companies House (generating a loss after tax of £193,000).
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 ...
Operation Otautahi Waka ('Christchurch transport') [2] was a commercial vehicle check on buses conducted by the New Zealand Police on 18 November 2010. [4] Christchurch Bus Services Ltd had four buses ordered off the road, which resulted in it being unable to operate a number of routes. These buses returned to duty the following day after repairs.