Forest Coach Lines

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Forest Coach Lines
Overview
Mode Commuter bus
Owner Private company
Area Ku-ring-gai
Ryde
Warringah
Willoughby
Business
Founded As a company - 1 March 1930
As Forest Coach Lines - February 1964
Operations
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Forest Coach Lines is a company that operates bus services in the northern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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[edit] Network

Metropolitan Bus Service Contract (MBSC) Region 14

  • 194: St Ives - City (Weekday Peak service)
  • 195: St Ives - Gordon Railway Station
  • 196: Mona Vale/Warriewood - Gordon Railway Station
  • 270: Terrey Hills - City
  • 276: Terrey Hills - Warringah Mall
  • 277: Castle Cove - Chatswood Railway Station
  • 278: Killarney Heights - Chatswood Railway Station
  • 279: Frenchs Forest - Chatswood Railway Station
  • 280: Warringah Mall - Chatswood Railway Station
  • 281: Davidson - Chatswood Railway Station
  • 282: Davidson/Belrose - Chatswood Railway Station (early morning and evening service)
  • 283: Belrose - Chatswood Railway Station
  • 284: Duffys Forest - Terrey Hills/Chatswood Railway Station
  • 285: Mona Vale/Warriewood/Narrabeen - Chatswood Railway Station
  • L70: Terrey Hills - City (Limited stops peak hour services)
  • M196: Terrey Hills - Macquarie University (limited service)

[edit] Fleet

The Forest fleet consists of Volvo and Mercedes-Benz buses. They have a green and white livery and are manufactured by Custom Coaches.

Their Volvo fleet are B10M and B12B buses, used to have a sponsored lease from Volvo of their Low-Emissions Bus.

They have seven articulated buses: two ex-State Transit Authority buses, six virgin buses and a bus on lease from a private collector.

They have a small LO812-class Mercedes shuttle bus operating around the Killarney Heights area.

[edit] Tickets & fares

Forest Coaches operates a smartcard-based multi-ride ticketing system called Datafare.


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