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    Badgerline was a bus operator in and around Bristol from 1985 until 2003. Its headquarters were in Weston-super-Mare. Initially a part of the Bristol Omnibus...
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    and Bristol Country Bus for services in Bath, Somerset and Wiltshire. Badgerline was formed in 1985 as the business name of the Bristol Country Bus and...
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  • the 1980s. During April 1995, two acquisitive private bus operators, Badgerline and GRT Bus Group, merged together to create FirstBus. The new company...
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    country services, which in 1986 became a separate company, Badgerline Limited. Badgerline was sold to its management in 1986, and the original company...
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    Holdings was purchased by fellow Bristol operator Badgerline. The trading names of Midland Red West and Badgerline remained unchanged as did vehicle livery, though...
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  • Daily. Retrieved January 18, 2024. Cork, Tristan (January 18, 2024). "Badgerline bus reappears in Bristol - to take film crew to 1981 Poland". Bristol...
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    to Badgerline, returning the two parts of the former company to common ownership. Bristol Omnibus was included in the June 1995 merger of Badgerline with...
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    panels. It was launched in August 1987. A total of 240 were built, with Badgerline, London Regional Transport and Yorkshire Traction major customers. It...
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    Group was listed on the stock exchange, and in June 1995 merged with Badgerline to form FirstBus. The GRT Group was formed as a holding company to purchase...
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    management buy out. It was resold to Badgerline in 1990. It was included in the 16 June 1995 merger of Badgerline with GRT Group to form FirstBus and became...
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    August 1987 page 22 Badgerline links with GRT The Independent 5 April 1995 Link-up creates second largest bus group: GRT and Badgerline in agreed £265m merger...
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    Yorkshire Rider was purchased by the Badgerline Group for £38 million (equivalent to £95,467,000 in 2023). Badgerline and its subsidiaries were later merged...
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    sold in a management buyout. In 1990, Eastern National passed to Badgerline. Badgerline divided the company into two: Thamesway Buses in the south of Essex...
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    amateur era. Guscott was originally a bricklayer, briefly drove buses for Badgerline in Bath, and worked for British Gas in a public-relations role before...
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    Moir Lockhead". Railway People. 11 April 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2020. "Badgerline links with GRT". The Independent. 5 April 1995. Retrieved 25 June 2020...
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    CentreWest on route 222. Other purchasers (all on Dennis Lances) included Badgerline, London & Country and Northern General. The Pathfinder was succeeded in...
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    Badgerline minibus on a Ford Transit chassis...
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  • Badger Bus, a service between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. Badgerline, a bus company in the southwest of England British Rail Class 89, nicknamed...
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    in the sale of Yorkshire Rider to Badgerline. In 1995, First Group was formed, following the merger of Badgerline and GRT Group. In 1998, Rider York...
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    September 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010. Curtis, Martin; Walker, Mike (2013). Badgerline: Bristol's country buses. Ian Allan Publishing. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7110-3634-5...
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    West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. It was later bought by the Badgerline Group, who later became the FirstGroup, and the company trades today as...
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  • Eastern National Omnibus Company MK Metro South West England Abus Alexcars Badgerline Bristol Omnibus Company Crosville Motor Services Devon General Greyhound...
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  • post-deregulation joint venture between Weston-super-Mare based bus company Badgerline and Isle of Wight bus company Southern Vectis, it was set up in September...
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    popular on the Plaxton Verde chassis, with the largest orders coming from Badgerline Group companies Midland Red West and Yorkshire Rider, the latter of which...
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    FirstGroup was formed as FirstBus on 16 May 1995, through the merger of Badgerline and the GRT Group. Although what became First London was established in...
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    for a heated windscreen. Yorkshire Rider, under the ownership of the Badgerline Group, took delivery of the first 50 facelifted Dashes on Dennis Dart...
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    to FirstBus operators Bristol City Line, First Greater Manchester and Badgerline, with further orders upon being received by MTL North, Tellings-Golden...
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    2022; First West of England, where 27 StreetDeck Ultroliners with revived Badgerline branding were delivered April 2022; First Eastern Counties, where 15 low-height...
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    Eastern National Omnibus Company MK Metro South West England Abus Alexcars Badgerline Bristol Omnibus Company Crosville Motor Services Devon General Greyhound...
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    Eastern National Omnibus Company MK Metro South West England Abus Alexcars Badgerline Bristol Omnibus Company Crosville Motor Services Devon General Greyhound...
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