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Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne, Adelaide - Sydney & Adelaide - Sydney were taken over by the Crawford family, owners of Premier Stateliner and Greyhound's southern operations; Sydney - Canberra - Snowy Mountains services were retained by Sinclair and Kings trading as Pioneer Trailways; In July 1988 the operation was rebranded Pioneer. [6] In ...
In November 1989, the Penfold family sold Greyhound Coaches to Stateliner with the exception of the Brisbane - Gold Coast and Brisbane - Toowoomba services that were sold separately. [3] In 1992 Greyhound, Pioneer and Bus Australia merged with the combined operation rebranded Greyhound Pioneer Australia. [4] [5]
In December 1987 a daylight service was introduced between Melbourne and Sydney but did not become a permanent feature. In September 1988 an overnight Melbourne to Adelaide service commenced. [2] [6] [7] In 2008, Firely entered a codeshare agreement with Greyhound Australia for the Adelaide service. [8]
On 22 December 1989, one of their coaches was involved in a disastrous bus crash near Kempsey, New South Wales in which 35 people were killed. In November 1992 McCafferty's commenced operating Melbourne to Adelaide and Adelaide to Darwin services [ 6 ] followed by Sydney - Canberra - Adelaide in late 1993 and Darwin - Broome - Perth in May 1995 ...
In 1997 Greyhound Pioneer Australia took legal action to prevent the Pioneer Motor Service name being used on the services north of Sydney. This action was successful and the operation was rebranded as Premier Motor Service. [2] [6] In November 1998, services were extended from Eden to Melbourne [7] This extension ceased on 12 December 2014. [8]
Sunliner also operated day tours in Sydney and Brisbane under the Boomerang Tours name. In October 1989 a Sunliner Express Scania was involved in the Grafton bus crash with 21 people killed and 22 injured on the Pacific Highway near Grafton. At the time, this crash was the worst in Australian road transport history in terms of number of deaths.