Badgerline: Bristol's Country Buses - Hardcover

Martin Curtis; Mike Walker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711036349 ISBN 13: 9780711036345

Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

In 2011 Badgerline marked a quarter century as a separate business. Created prior to privatisation, although the brand name was established in 1985, it was not until the following year that the company was formally established, initially as a subsidiary of NBC prior to the sale to its management. Under its new owners the company grew through acquisition of other local operators, such as Western National and Midland Red West and of companies elsewhere in Britain, most notably Eastern National, Potteries Motor Traction and Yorkshire Rider. In 1995, the year of its merger with GRT to form FirstBus (later FirstGroup), Badgerline operated no fewer than 4000 buses across the UK as well as having a toehold in the burgeoning railway franchising business through a shareholding in Great Western Trains. The Badgerline bus service extended as far as Cippenham, Gloucester, Salisbury, Taunton, Yeovil and also operated National Express Coaches to London. In this book, Martin Curtis and Mike Walker, both of whom were involved in the management buy-out in 1986, provide a pictorial account of Badgerline, with a fascinating selection of photographs showing Badgerline buses across the country, in a variety of liveries.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Curtis is a Bristolian who developed a keen interest in transport from a very early age. He grew up in Brislington where he closely observed not only the local bus operations, but also the bus manufacturing activities of Bristol Commercial Vehicles, whose premises were discreetly established among residential streets. This led Martin to a career in the bus industry from the early 1970s, initially with Bristol Omnibus Co, and later with Western & Southern National in Dorset, latterly as District Manager. He returned to the Bristol area in the 1980s to become a Regional Director of the Badgerline concern and is currently Managing Director of Bath Bus Company. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport. Having been a contributor to various journals (including Buses magazine) from the late 1960s, he has written a number of books, the latest of which Olympian is his seventh title.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0711036349
• ISBN 13: 9780711036345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96