"were guaranteed a bit of a sit-down at 2am"". The services' association with 1960s musicians is remembered in a set of photographs published in 2008 of the Stones stopping at Watford Gap on the way to ATV Studios, Birmingham in 1963. In 2009, Roadchef paid a former employee £1,000 for autographs he had collected while working there, including those of Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Dusty Springfield and Cliff Richard. In July 2011, music journalist Peter Paphides presented ""Late Nights at the Blue Boar"", a BBC Radio 4 documentary about the connection between the services and Britain's"
"Blue Bus sold its Appley Bridge depot to South Lancs Travel along with six buses and all of the depot's routes. This allowed the company to focus on its depots in Bolton and Eccles, with a proposal to expand further having gained tenders in Salford and Manchester on eight routes. On 31 July 2005, Blue Bus was acquired by Arriva North West & Wales. Blue Bus operated numerous bus services, including the following: 6: Bolton - Little Hulton - Walkden - Swinton - Manchester 6A: Bolton - Little Hulton - Walkden - Swinton - Manchester 7: Bolton - Little Hulton"
"operations in Banbury. For a long time Midland Red shared a management team with Stagecoach Oxford, but this was split in July 2002 with the Banbury operations becoming part of Stagecoach in Oxfordshire. Meanwhile, Guide Friday, an operator of sight-seeing tours in Stratford had established a small number of local and tendered bus services in the town following Stagecoach's departure. This company was eventually purchased by Ensignbus, who rebranded the Stratford services by once again reviving the Stratford Blue fleetname. In February 2007, Stagecoach purchased the Stratford operation from Ensignbus, once again giving them a depot in the town. On"
"Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, also known as Blue Bus of Shotts or Law of Shotts, is a bus operator primarily serving the area of Shotts, North Lanarkshire in West Scotland. It is a mainly local bus operator, based at Allanton, but is also involved in private coach business. The company was formed from the remnants of the bankrupted HAD Coaches. Blue Bus operate a variety of services across central Scotland. the company operates services on four routes between Lanarkshire and West Lothian. There routes restored links that had been lost since the privatisation of"
"Blue Bus of Penwortham Blue Bus is a bus operator based in Penwortham, Lancashire. It operates many routes, including services to Preston City Centre. Blue Bus of Penwortham was formed in early 2006 by Roger Jarvis. It occurred nine months after Jarvis sold Blue Bus of Bolton to Arriva North West and Wales in July 2005. Roger Jarvis also purchased Whittaker's Coach Travel and revived the Blue Bus name from his former Blue Bus of Bolton operation. In June 2009, with Stagecoach having purchased Preston Bus, bus usage of Stagecoach in Preston since the takeover in January had increased with"
"Blue Bus and Coach Services Blue Bus was a large independent bus company serving Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. Blue Bus was formed in 1991 by former Shearings managers Roger Jarvis and Alan Turner. It was based at a former railway works in Horwich, six miles to the west of Bolton. The first type of bus to be acquired in bulk was the Leyland Leopard, which were followed by a number of Leyland Atlanteans. It commenced operating its first route in May 1991 between Bolton and Horwich via Chorley New Road in competition with GM Buses. Each of the five"
"a management buyout to Western Travel Group, which also owned Cheltenham & Gloucester Omnibus. During Western Travel ownership, Midland Red South opened a garage in Coventry, and also revived the Statford Blue name. In 1993, Western Travel was sold to Stagecoach who re-branded part of it as Stagecoach Midland Red. It set about simplifing the routes and improving the profitability of the operation, which included the closure of the depots in Coventry and Stratford in 1999. Upon national re-branding in 2000, Stagecoach Midland Red became Stagecoach in Warwickshire for operations from Leamington, Nuneaton and Rugby and Stagecoach in Banbury for"
"Stagecoach in Warwickshire Stagecoach in Warwickshire is a bus operator in and around the county of Warwickshire. It is a subsidiary of Stagecoach. In 1927, Stratford-on-Avon Motor Services commenced operating a service between Stratford-on-Avon and Royal Leamington Spa. In June 1935, Midland Red purchased Stratford Blue but continued to operate under its own identity until January 1971 when the National Bus Company integrated the Stratford Blue operation into Midland Red. In September 1981, Midland Red South was formed with 163 buses operating from five depots in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. In December 1987, Midland Red South was sold in"
"Stagecoach in Warwickshire Stagecoach in Warwickshire is a bus operator in and around the county of Warwickshire. It is a subsidiary of Stagecoach. In 1927, Stratford-on-Avon Motor Services commenced operating a service between Stratford-on-Avon and Royal Leamington Spa. In June 1935, Midland Red purchased Stratford Blue but continued to operate under its own identity until January 1971 when the National Bus Company integrated the Stratford Blue operation into Midland Red. In September 1981, Midland Red South was formed with 163 buses operating from five depots in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. In December 1987, Midland Red South was sold in"
"Leyland Tiger / Plaxton Paramount III 3200 Blue Bus and Coach Services Blue Bus was a large independent bus company serving Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. Blue Bus was formed in 1991 by former Shearings managers Roger Jarvis and Alan Turner. It was based at a former railway works in Horwich, six miles to the west of Bolton. The first type of bus to be acquired in bulk was the Leyland Leopard, which were followed by a number of Leyland Atlanteans. It commenced operating its first route in May 1991 between Bolton and Horwich via Chorley New Road in competition"
"work from a holiday company, Alfa Tours. Five coaches were acquired for this, with two were specially branded for Alfa. Blue Bus purchased a depot in Huddersfield in August 1994, launching a service to Marsden in competition with Yorkshire Rider. This venture was later expanded into Bradford. Rider was taken over by FirstBus in 1996, and Blue Bus' West Yorkshire operation ceased. Just weeks later, FirstBus took over Blue Bus's main Bolton rival, GM Buses North. During 2001, after Stagecoach sold the East Lancashire end of Ribble Motor Services company to Blazefield, Blue Bus started intensive competition against newly formed"
"H2, H3, H18 and H19. It also operated LSP route 8, and school routes. As part of a decision to consolidate all of Arriva's Transport for London routes, Watford garage was transferred to Arriva London on 1 January 2016. Watford was a depot of London Country Bus Services (North West) (one of the companies into which London Country Bus Services was divided in 1986), acquired by Luton & District Transport in 1988. As of May 2015, 88 buses were dedicated to the Transport for London services. Arriva Shires & Essex Arriva Shires & Essex is a bus operator providing services"
"Blue services. Fuel shortages meant that in the early post-war years even those who owned cars hesitated to use them for long journeys, and few people went on holiday abroad, so there was a strong demand for long-distance coach travel. The Beeching cuts of the early 1960s generated more traffic for Royal Blue, and traffic peaked in 1965, with well over 1.5 million passenger journeys. On 1 January 1963, Royal Blue's owners, Western National and Southern National were included in the British Transport Commission's transport assets passing to the state-owned Transport Holding Company, which in turn passed to the state-owned"
"integral Wright StreetLite Maxes. Unusual vehicles in the fleet included four MAN 14.220s with East Lancs Myllennium bodywork which were based at Bolton depot. Until October 2008, twelve Neoplan N4016 were operating on service 18A from Liverpool to Croxteth Park, and were the only vehicles of their type in Britain, as were a batch of three Neoplan N4009s, which were latterly based at Bootle depot. Until early 2016, a batch of three Ikarus Polaris bodied DAF SB220s were operated on services in and around Bolton. These were the remaining examples out of seven that were acquired with the Blue Bus"
"Yellow Bus Services The business of Yellow Bus Services (YBS) of Stoughton, Guildford was started in 1920 as a partnership between Mr Frank Hutchins (using a legacy from his uncle) and Mr Sydney Hayter (using his gratuity earned from service with the Royal Flying Corps. The partnership was to dissolve after 3 years, with Hayter remaining as the sole proprietor. Mr Hayter died in 1951 and the company ceased to trade as a bus operator in 1958, with its interests taken over by the Aldershot and District Traction Company. The first service, using a Ford Model T bus in brown"
"running on a number of occasions. A driver was also found to have taken a bus out of service and stopped at his house for lunch, he was sacked the same day. Blue Bus will be appealing the decision of the Traffic Commissioner. Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, also known as Blue Bus of Shotts or Law of Shotts, is a bus operator primarily serving the area of Shotts, North Lanarkshire in West Scotland. It is a mainly local bus operator, based at Allanton, but is also involved in private coach business. The company was"
"2001. A number of service revisions followed with many marginal services withdrawn and a number of school contracts were terminated. Much of this work, mainly contracted to Lancashire County Council, was picked up by Northern Blue. A focus was then made on developing high quality trunk routes, namely the 152, 225 & Hyndburn Circulars. Also later the X1. In 2002, the Bolton garage was sold on to independent operator Blue Bus. The contracted services in the Clitheroe area were relinquished and the garage was sold to a housing developer. Most of the Clitheroe contracted work passed to Northern Blue. In"
"Blue did both. It acquired competitors in Plymouth (Traveller Coaches) and Portsmouth (Olympic Services), and made co-ordination agreements with Southdown and East Kent (between Margate and Bournemouth), Greyhound Motors (between London and Bristol), Western National (between London and Plymouth) and Southern National (between London and Paignton). In 1934 Royal Blue was one of the founders of Associated Motorways, which co-ordinated coach routes of six operators. At the end of 1934 Elliot Brothers sold the Royal Blue business to Western National and Southern National, by then controlled by the Tilling Group. The new owners continued the process of acquiring competitors and"
"the 1930s. The trading name ""Blue Funnel"" was adopted about 1965. Walter Charles Hogg ( aka Bill) bought out the operation in 1979 but ran into financial difficulties in 1992 and was bought out by the Solent and Wightlink Cruises operation. Solent and Wightlink Cruises originated from the Rayment Family providing fishing trips from Bembridge on the Isle of Wight and eventually taking over ""Blue Funnell"" Blue Funnel Group Blue Funnel Group refers to a related set of companies proving boat charter, cruise and ferry services around the Solent and Isle of Wight in vessels up to 500 passengers. The"
"car driver, and the passenger last known to be in a critical condition. Only one passenger of the 10 on-board were treated for minor injuries. At around 16:30 on 7 February 2012, a Marchwood Motorways Mercedes-Benz Citaro caught fire on Calmore Roundabout, Totton. The bus was being driven Not In Service by a mechanic at the time - there were no injuries but the bus was destroyed. Bluestar (bus company) Solent Blue Line Ltd, which trades primarily under the name Bluestar, is a bus operator providing services in south Hampshire. It is a subsidiary of the Go South Coast sector"
"Royal Blue Coach Services Royal Blue Express Services was a coach operator in the south and west of England from 1880 until 1986. The Royal Blue business was founded in 1880 by Thomas Elliott in Bournemouth. The business, at first known as Royal Blue & Branksome Mews, included the hire of every kind of horse-drawn vehicle, as well as coach building, saddlery and blacksmithing. Elliott soon started a four-in-hand stagecoach service to connect Bournemouth to the railway at Holmsley. That service became redundant when the railway was extended to Bournemouth in 1888, but by then Elliott had started running Royal"
"610C), 1966 Bristol MW (JAX 117E), 1967 Bristol RESL (LAX 101E) and 1968 Bristol RELH (OAX 9F). Two others were being restored: a 1957 Bristol SC (registration mark ONV 425) and 1965 Bristol RELL (GAX 2C). A 1969 Bristol RELH coach (SAX 1G) is stored and has received some restoration work. Red & White Services Red & White Services was a bus company operating in south east Wales and Gloucestershire, England between 1929 and 1978. Red & White evolved into Red & White United Transport Ltd, formed in 1937, which owned bus and road freight companies in the United Kingdom"
"Along with Solent Blue Line, in May 2008, the company was found to have been running services to lower than expected reliability levels, and faced a fine from the Traffic Commissioner. Marchwood Motorways Marchwood Motorways was a bus and coach operator based in Totton, Hampshire. Formed as an independent in the 1940s, it was a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group from 2006 to the end of operations. Its operations were subsumed by those of Bluestar, but its licence remains legally separate and is still used for some vehicles. Marchwood Motorways was formed in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Marchwood Motorways"
"former PTE bus services which ran from Newcastle northwards into Northumberland, most notably the Ponteland and Darras Hall routes. It later expanded into PTE contract work, using older buses from the main Busways fleet. It was launched in advance of deregulation, in July 1986, and the name was a throw-back to the ""Blue Bus Services"" of Newcastle Corporation Transport many years before the PTE came along. Blue Bus Services vehicles, which were all dual purpose vehicles at the start, wore a dark blue and cream livery, with either dark blue fleetnames applied to the cream area. or yellow fleetnames applied"
"Blue brand. Neighbouring Devon General was also brought under Western National control in 1971, having just placed their first order for 6 LHs (88–93). The orders for this large fleet of 209 buses and coaches were spread across ECW, Marshall, Plaxton and even Duple. Second hand vehicles brought the total number of LHs operated up to nearly 300. Between 1972 and 1982 Lawrence Wilson & Son bought 3 LH and 10 LHL chassis which were fitted with panel van bodies. The first three LHLs were completed by Marsden and the remainder by Vanplan. They were used for delivering Wilson's Silver"
"Scottish bus services. Blue Bus operates a fleet of Plaxton Beaver 2s and Alexander Sprint bodied Mercedes-Benz 709Ds. In 2010 the company said they had approached Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) asking for a route serving Torbothie, Shotts to be subsidised, but were told there was no funding available. The original service was to cease 6 May. Ultimately, however, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport agreed to subsidize the route and the route was replaced with new service 10 May 2010. On the 26 Octoter 2010, the company was fined £3,500, when the Vosa bus compliance officers noted the early and late"
"week. It's difficult but not impossible."" Yellow Bus Services The business of Yellow Bus Services (YBS) of Stoughton, Guildford was started in 1920 as a partnership between Mr Frank Hutchins (using a legacy from his uncle) and Mr Sydney Hayter (using his gratuity earned from service with the Royal Flying Corps. The partnership was to dissolve after 3 years, with Hayter remaining as the sole proprietor. Mr Hayter died in 1951 and the company ceased to trade as a bus operator in 1958, with its interests taken over by the Aldershot and District Traction Company. The first service, using a"
"seen in Newport and Cardiff. Five blue Bustlers were introduced in Pontypridd when the council run Taff-Ely (previously Pontypridd Urban District Council) operations were taken over. Bustlers also covered much of the Rhymney Valley when Inter-Valley Link Ltd (former Caerphilly UDC, Gelligaer UDC, and Bedwas & Machen UDC) operations went into receivership. Bustlers also entered Merthyr Tydfil in a big way when, due to a financial crisis, all the Merthyr Tydfil UDC bus drivers resigned en masse and joined National Welsh as a block Bustler team. With minibuses being a cheaper form of bus operation, Bustlers were seen on tendered"
"of smaller operations in the town and the St Helens Rider operation was relatively short-lived, being quietly dropped around the time the Lancashire Travel branding was adopted by St Helens depot in autumn of 1993. Based in Bootle, Blue Triangle was formed by a former Merseyside Transport driver David Forrest in the late-1980s. Unlike Fareway, Liverbus and Liverline, who built up substantial commercial operations competing with Merseybus, Blue Triangle initially focused upon Merseytravel contracts with a small fleet of secondhand vehicles. However, by 1992 Blue Triangle had begun commercial operations and by the spring of 1993 the fleet had increased"
"alabaster found in the cliffs gave rise to the name of the colour ""Watchet Blue"". The village lies on the route of the West Somerset Coast Path and Celtic Way Exmoor Option. Blue Anchor railway station is a station on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in Somerset. It is situated in the village and houses the museum of the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust. Within the village is the only example of an updraught brick kiln known to have survived in Somerset. It was built around 1830, supplied by small vessels carrying limestone to the small culm landing,"
"Blue Triangle Blue Triangle is a bus company operating services in East London. It is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group and operates most services under contract to Transport for London. It is the operator of the East London Transit service. In August 2002, Blue Triangle took over route 185 at short notice after London Easylink ceased trading. On 29 June 2007, Blue Triangle was purchased by the Go-Ahead Group. The sale included eight Transport for London and nine Essex County Council routes and approximately 60 buses, but not the charter fleet which were retained by Roger Wright trading as"
"from 1935 to 1939, which encouraged holiday makers to use the train to reach these rural locations. In 1936, the GWR's chairman, Sir Robert Horne, opened the new £20,000 open-air swimming pool at Minehead. The GWR was nationalised, becoming the Western Region of British Railways on 1 January 1948. Camp coaches made a reappearance in 1952 and were available to the public at both Stogumber and Blue Anchor from 1952 to 1964; the latter were kept on for British Rail staff holidays until 1970. However, Washford signal box was closed in 1952 and Minehead engine shed was closed in 1956."
"operated routes 15 (Heritage), 97, 104, 158, 238, 241, 262, 323, 330, 473, 474, 549 and D3.On 27 August 2017, route 115 passed to Blue Triangle The present West Ham garage was opened in February 2008 as the replacement for Stratford garage. Whilst construction work was underway, all major engineering work on its buses was carried out at Rainham. The garage became fully operational in November 2009 taking over its own maintenance. The new garage is able to hold over 350 buses. It is the biggest bus garage in England and is the new location for Stagecoach London's head office"