First Somerset & Avon

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First Somerset & Avon is a company providing bus services in Bath and Somerset. It is part of the First Group.

The company combines the former operations of Badgerline (which joined First Bus in 1995) and the Somerset operations of Southern National, acquired by First Group in 1999. Badgerline had itself been formed from the southern area operations of the Bristol Omnibus Company in 1985 and privatised in 1986. Southern National was split off in 1983 from Western National (then part of the National Bus Company) and privatised in 1988.

In 2003 First Group changed the legal structure of some of its bus operating subsidiaries, and as a result, First Bristol Buses Ltd (the entity which had been Bristol Omnibus Company, a company originally incorporated in 1887) became First Somerset & Avon Ltd.

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United Kingdom bus companies:	First Aberdeen · First Berkshire & The Thames Valley · First Bristol · First Cymru · First Devon & Cornwall · First Eastern Counties · First Edinburgh · First Essex · First Glasgow · First Hampshire & Dorset · First Leicester · First London · First Manchester · First Potteries (First Chester & The Wirral) · First Somerset & Avon · First South Yorkshire · First West Yorkshire (First Bradford, First Calderdale & Huddersfield, First Leeds) · First York (York Park and Ride)

International bus companies:	Aircoach · First Student · First Student Canada · First Transit · Greyhound Lines · BoltBus (50/50 operation with Peter Pan Bus Lines) · Greyhound Canada · Grey Goose Bus Lines · New World First Bus · Vancouver Island Coach Lines · Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines

Railway companies:	First Capital Connect · FirstGBRf · First Great Western · First Hull Trains · First ScotRail · First TransPennine Express · Heathrow Connect

Tram operations:	First London (operators of Tramlink)

Annual revenue: ▲ £3,708 million GBP (2007) · Employees: 74,233 (2007) · Stock symbol: LSE: FGP · Website: www.firstgroup.com

v • d • e Bus companies operating in South West England

Bristol	Buglers · First Bristol · First Somerset & Avon

Cornwall	First Devon & Cornwall · Plymouth Citybus · Stagecoach in Devon · Truronian

Devon	Cooks Coaches · First Devon & Cornwall · Plymouth Citybus · Stagecoach in Devon

Dorset	First Hampshire & Dorset · Transdev Yellow Buses · Wilts & Dorset

Gloucestershire	Buglers · First Somerset & Avon · Stagecoach West (Stagecoach in Cheltenham, Stagecoach in Gloucestershire, Stagecoach in the Cotswolds) · Thamesdown Transport

Somerset	Buglers · Cooks Coaches · First Somerset & Avon · Wilts & Dorset

Wiltshire	First Somerset & Avon · Stagecoach in Swindon · Thamesdown Transport · Wilts & Dorset

National	Megabus · National Express

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