Stagecoach West

For the ABC television series from 1960-1961, see Stagecoach West (TV series).

A preserved Bristol VR previously operated by Stagecoach West, at a bus rally in 2008. Although it was sold from Stagecoach in Hampshire, it was with Stagecoach West from 1993 to 2000, and now carries appropriate fleetnames.
Headquarters Gloucester
Service area United Kingdom
Service type Urban and interurban bus services
Destinations Cheltenham, Gloucester, Cotswolds, Wye Valley, Forest of Dean and Swindon
Fleet Optare Solo
Volvo B10M
Alexander Dennis Trident
Transbus/Alexander Dennis Dart
Volvo Olympian
Leyland Olympian
Operator Stagecoach Group
Web site Official Website

Stagecoach West is an operating division of the Stagecoach Group. Based in Gloucester, it operates bus services in Cheltenham (as Stagecoach in Cheltenham), Gloucester (as Stagecoach in Gloucester), the Cotswolds (as Stagecoach in the Cotswolds), the Wye Valley, the Forest of Dean (both as Stagecoach in Wye and Dean) and Swindon (as Stagecoach in Swindon).

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History

Stagecoach West was formerly Western Travel Limited, acquired by Stagecoach Group in 1993[1]. Western Travel was originally the management buy-out vehicle for Cheltenham & Gloucester Omnibus Company, split off from Bristol Omnibus Company in 1983 and privatised in 1986. Western Travel acquired Midland Red South in 1987, and the Eastern Division of National Welsh in 1991.

Stagecoach subsequently split the operations: the Welsh operations became part of Stagecoach in South Wales, and the Forest of Dean operations remained part of Stagecoach West as Stagecoach in Wye and Dean.

Many bus services have been upgraded in recent years with more promotion of the routes, more frequent services and new easy access buses with CCTV, in a bid to win more passengers and to encourage greater use of public transport.

Depots

Services

Stagecoach West operate a number of services, both urban and local services run in the main towns of operation, as well as longer-distance routes serving out of town areas.

Local Stagecoach West bus services

Local City bus services in Gloucester (using various pick-up stops in the City Centre) include:

Cheltenham's local bus network is, unusually, lettered not numbered, and includes:

Longer distance services

Stagecoach West also operate some longer distance services to more rural areas outside of the main towns; these include -

Stagecoach West are also responsible for resourcing (i) vehicles/drivers under contract to National Express for part of the 444 Gloucester/London Service, and (ii) the Cheltenham/Gloucester/Swindon/Reading/London Megabus service.

See also

References

  1. ^ Companies House webcheck Company Number 2041677

External links

The details of bus services and timetables are on separate area websites:

Bus companies operating in South West England
Bristol
Cornwall
Devon
Dorset
Gloucestershire

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