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A preserved Bristol K5G Bristol Omnibus Company bus. Horse-bus services in Bristol were started in 1887 by the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company, with a service from the Victoria Rooms (connecting with the trams) to Clifton. [1] [2] The horse-buses were replaced by motor buses from 1906, first on a service from the city centre to Clifton. [3]
The Bristol bus station, in Marlborough Street, was opened in 1958. It was redeveloped in 2006 There are three main bus companies operating across the Greater Bristol area. They are First West of England, [1] Stagecoach South West and Big Lemon. They provide services around Bristol and into South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
Bristol Omnibus was included in the June 1995 merger of Badgerline with GRT Group to form FirstBus. [45] [46] [47] The Bristol Omnibus name had fallen out of operational use for some time, as FirstBus rolled out its corporate identity to its subsidiaries. Bristol Omnibus Company eventually changed its legal name to First Bristol Buses Limited ...
The Bristol Tramways Company started operating buses in 1906 to feed traffic into their tram services from beyond the boundaries of the city of Bristol.In 1910 a branch was opened in Weston-super-Mare where the company's first bus station was opened on the sea front in the 1930s.
Bristol Bus and Coach Station serves the city of Bristol in the west of England. It is situated on Marlborough Street, near the Broadmead shopping area. The original bus station and onsite depot were opened in 1958 by the Bristol Omnibus Company .
The route was launched in May 2018 as part of a rebrand to First's Thornbury and Yate routes. It was the first regular service to use the new Stoke Gifford bypass. [2]In September 2020, the frequency of the service was reduced from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes. [3]
A matrix timetable for bus services in England in the 1940s and 1950s Timetable of Gotthard railway in 1899. The first compilation of railway timetables in the United Kingdom was produced in 1839 by George Bradshaw.
First Somerset & Avon is still printed on some tickets, while other tickets are printed with First Bristol & Avon or just First Bristol. In February 2014, First's Bridgwater and Taunton business was transferred to First South West and rebranded as The Buses of Somerset in an unprecedented break from the FirstGroup corporate style. The business ...