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Badgerline was a bus operator in and around Bristol from 1985 until 2003. Its headquarters were in Weston-super-Mare. Initially a part of the Bristol Omnibus Company, it was privatised in September 1986 and sold to Badgerline Holdings in a management buyout. It went on to purchase a number of bus companies in England and Wales. In November 1993, Badgerline Group was listed on the stock exchange and, on 16 June 1995, it merged with the GRT Group to form FirstBus.
In 2018, Badgerline was reintroduced as the name for First West of England's bus services in and around Weston-super-Mare.
Badgerline was a bus operator in and around Bristol from 1985 until 2003. Its headquarters were in Weston-super-Mare. Initially a part of the Bristol Omnibus...
and Bristol Country Bus for services in Bath, Somerset and Wiltshire. Badgerline was formed in 1985 as the business name of the Bristol Country Bus and...
Holdings was purchased by fellow Bristol operator Badgerline. The trading names of Midland Red West and Badgerline remained unchanged as did vehicle livery, though...
the 1980s. During April 1995, two acquisitive private bus operators, Badgerline and GRT Bus Group, merged together to create FirstBus. The new company...
to Badgerline, returning the two parts of the former company to common ownership. Bristol Omnibus was included in the June 1995 merger of Badgerline with...
management buy out. It was resold to Badgerline in 1990. It was included in the 16 June 1995 merger of Badgerline with GRT Group to form FirstBus and became...
Daily. Retrieved January 18, 2024. Cork, Tristan (January 18, 2024). "Badgerline bus reappears in Bristol - to take film crew to 1981 Poland". Bristol...
panels. It was launched in August 1987. A total of 240 were built, with Badgerline, London Regional Transport and Yorkshire Traction major customers. It...
country services, which in 1986 became a separate company, Badgerline Limited. Badgerline was sold to its management in 1986, and the original company...
Group was listed on the stock exchange, and in June 1995 merged with Badgerline to form FirstBus. The GRT Group was formed as a holding company to purchase...
West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. It was later bought by the Badgerline Group, who would later become the FirstGroup, and the company trades today...
Yorkshire Rider was purchased by the Badgerline Group for £38 million (equivalent to £95,467,000 in 2023). Badgerline and its subsidiaries were later merged...
in the sale of Yorkshire Rider to Badgerline. In 1995, First Group was formed, following the merger of Badgerline and GRT Group. In 1998, Rider York...
sold in a management buyout. In 1990, Eastern National passed to Badgerline. Badgerline divided the company into two: Thamesway Buses in the south of Essex...
Moir Lockhead". Railway People. 11 April 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2020. "Badgerline links with GRT". The Independent. 5 April 1995. Retrieved 25 June 2020...
amateur era. Guscott was originally a bricklayer, briefly drove buses for Badgerline in Bath, and worked for British Gas in a public-relations role before...
popular on the Plaxton Verde chassis, with the largest orders coming from Badgerline Group companies Midland Red West and Yorkshire Rider, the latter of which...
August 1987 page 22 Badgerline links with GRT The Independent 5 April 1995 Link-up creates second largest bus group: GRT and Badgerline in agreed £265m merger...
post-deregulation joint venture between Weston-super-Mare based bus company Badgerline and Isle of Wight bus company Southern Vectis, it was set up in September...
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2022; First West of England, where 27 StreetDeck Ultroliners with revived Badgerline branding were delivered April 2022; First Eastern Counties, where 15 low-height...
Company was formed in May 1997 by Martin Curtis and three other former Badgerline managers. It commenced operating open top tours in Bath with Bristol VRTs...
privatisation of public transport, and the morphing of Bristol Omnibus into Badgerline, which was acquired by FirstGroup and rebranded as First Somerset & Avon...
for a heated windscreen. Yorkshire Rider, under the ownership of the Badgerline Group, took delivery of the first 50 facelifted Dashes on Dennis Dart...
CentreWest on route 222. Other purchasers (all on Dennis Lances) included Badgerline, London & Country and Northern General. The Pathfinder was succeeded in...
Eastern National Omnibus Company MK Metro South West England Abus Alexcars Badgerline Bristol Omnibus Company Crosville Motor Services Devon General Greyhound...
Eastern National Omnibus Company MK Metro South West England Abus Alexcars Badgerline Bristol Omnibus Company Crosville Motor Services Devon General Greyhound...
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