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Post by gooderson1 on Feb 2, 2017 12:55:13 GMT 1
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Post by upasalmon70 on Feb 4, 2017 19:20:03 GMT 1
What is odd is that Thamesdown, or SWINDON as it should be called has passed to Go South Coast rather than the more logical Oxford grouping of the company. Hopefully the stupid Thamesdown name should vanish after43 years.I Hope they save the 50 year old Daimler CVG6 they own.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Feb 4, 2017 20:34:07 GMT 1
With a quality headline pun like that someone at the Swindon Advertiser has a future with the nationals.
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Feb 6, 2017 10:15:34 GMT 1
What is odd is that Thamesdown, or SWINDON as it should be called has passed to Go South Coast rather than the more logical Oxford grouping of the company. Hopefully the stupid Thamesdown name should vanish after43 years.I Hope they save the 50 year old Daimler CVG6 they own. Go South Coast is the more logical operation for Go-Ahead to put it under as they already serve Swindon (the main bus up from Salisbury being the most noteworthy), don't let the name fool you they already serve (& are the main operator in) most of Wiltshire under the Salisbury Reds, Damory, Tourist Coaches etc names - nothing actually uses the Go South Coast name, everything has a different brand name. The closest the Oxford Group of operations get to Swindon is the western edge of Oxford really, the focus of that business is really Oxford & east of the city (through Thames Travel & Carousel). |
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Post by SCH117X on Feb 7, 2017 18:51:12 GMT 1
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Feb 11, 2017 22:39:07 GMT 1
I wonder whether Go-Ahead will introduce a day ticket valid on Thamesdown buses, the route to Salisbury and maybe other buses further afield?
This is the first municipal privatisation since Islwyn, sold to Stagecoach in early 2010. Also, this is similar to Eastbourne being on a Go-Ahead / Stagecoach boundary, except that Stagecoach were winners that time. As you probably know, this leaves just 10 municipal bus companies:-
Lothian
Blackpool
Rossendale
Halton
Warrington
Nottingham
Ipswich
Reading
Newport
Cardiff
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Post by upasalmon70 on Feb 20, 2017 6:57:10 GMT 1
Apologies for not knowing the Gaelic name (something like Comhairle na Eilean Siar) but the Western Isles Council own and operate buses on the Western Isles due to the unwillingness of independent firms to run bus services there.
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Post by gooderson1 on Feb 20, 2017 8:53:52 GMT 1
I stand to be corrected but I think the bus operations of The Western Islands Council is directly owned by the council rather than being "arms length" for the 10 remaining municipal companies. The same format was used(directly owned) by Kent County Council when they ran the Canterbury P&R and several routes before the unit was closed down due to high costs.
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