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Hammersmith (702) End. Legoland Windsor (701) Green Line Coach Station (702) Heathrow Terminal 5 (703) Service. Operates. Monday – Sunday. Windsor Express (The London Line 701 and 702 & Flightline 703) are bus routes that run between Reading, Windsor, Bracknell and London.
In 1990 the High Wycombe operations were sold to the Oxford Bus Company, and in 1992 the Reading and Newbury operations were sold to Reading Buses. In 1993 Beeline purchased the Slough operations of Luton & District Transport, until 1986 the Slough depot of London Country Bus Services and later part of the London Country North West division. [5]
The Green Line livery and fleetname was rolled out across the existing express services, [2] [3] [4] differentiating these from LGOC's red service buses. New services quickly followed, with the number of routes increasing to 27 by October 1931 and the number of coaches to 275. Green Line also began to acquire some of its independent competitors.
The section from Slough to Windsor Castle was withdrawn in 1963. [1] The 1980s saw the introduction by London Regional Transport of route tenders, with route 81 the first route to be put out to tender. The contract for the route was awarded to Len Wright Travel, which later became London Buslines effective from 13 July 1985. [2][3][4]
Thames Valley Buses Limited, [1] trading as Thames Valley Buses, is a bus company based in Bracknell, England.It was known as Courtney Buses until 2021. Founded in 1973, the company operates a network of commercial and contracted local bus services and school buses in Berkshire, north Hampshire and small parts of Oxfordshire, Surrey and Buckinghamshire.
[14] [15] In November 2019, routes 2 (which had already been withdrawn as a result of too much competition from Courtney in May 2018, but added back into the company after the purchase in March 2019) and 5 in Slough and Windsor were transferred to the Courtney Buses division, with 2 other routes, which Courtney had taken over from First ...
The former bus station. Partial demolition of the former 1970s Slough bus station along with Compair House, a disused office block, began in February 2010 to allow for the construction of the new bus station, which started in March 2010. [2] [3] Services transferred from the old bus station to the new bus station on 28 May 2011. [4]
These bus routes include connections with Slough, Amersham, High Wycombe and Uxbridge. It is served by Gerrards Cross railway station, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) south, which has links to London Marylebone and High Wycombe, Oxford and Birmingham. The village lies 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north west of London's Heathrow Airport.