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Under Cornwall's first devolution deal in 2015, the county was given the power to develop and franchise bus transport. [3] Cornwall Council initially invested in new facilities such as waiting areas, vehicles and real-time arrival displays at bus stops.
The first four bus routes were operated by a fleet of twenty single-deck 31-seat vehicles with solid tyres. By 1927 this had expanded to ten routes and 57 buses, some of which were one-man operated. [7] Plymouth was granted city status in 1928 and the buses started to carry the city's coat of arms and the "Plymouth City Transport" name. [8]
The Tamar Bridge (background) and Royal Albert Bridge (foreground) carry road and rail links into Cornwall. The inland transport network consists of longitudinal spines (the A30, A38 and A39 trunk roads (though the A39 is no longer designated as such) and the former Great Western Railway main line through Cornwall) from which secondary roads and railway branch lines radiate to ports and ...
When the Great Western Railway (Road Transport) Act was passed in 1928 the GWR had the largest railway bus fleet. This Act regularised the railway's operation of road services and also paved the way for them to be transferred out of the railway's control to bus companies, although the railway was to be a shareholder in these companies and there ...
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Many rural routes were lost when the Transport for Cornwall contract was given to Plymouth Citybus by Cornwall Council in March 2020. [8] The only bus routes still operated by First Kernow are the U/T/L prefixed routes, "Coaster" branded services, "Sunseeker" S1/S2 routes, The "Mousehole" branded service between Penzance, Newlyn & Mousehole and ...