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Thames Valley Buses Limited, 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 ...
Thames Valley Traction Company Limited was a major bus company operating services to and from Reading, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Newbury, High Wycombe and Oxford and surrounding areas for 52 years in the 20th century. For many years it ran the "Reading A" and "Reading B" limited-stop services between London 's Victoria Coach Station and Reading ...
Upon grouping into the National Bus Company, in 1972 the Aldershot & District merged with Thames Valley Traction to become Alder Valley. To avoid confusion with the Thames Valley routes, former A&D services were entirely renumbered on 29 September 1974, often increasing digits by 200, which saw the routes 1, 2 and 3 become 201, 202 and 203.
List of bus routes in London. Two double-decker buses on routes 8 and 205 at Bishopsgate in 2022. A single-decker bus on route 309 in Aberfeldy Village in 2022. This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches ).
In March 1996 Beeline was sold to CentreWest who in turn was sold to FirstGroup in March 1997. Initially trading as First Beeline, in 2001 it was rebranded as First Berkshire & The Thames Valley. Following the loss of nine Bracknell Forest Council supported services to Courtney Buses on 13 July 2015 and the sale of route 90 Bracknell to Reading ...
In December 2017, it was announced that Reading Buses was to take on three services withdrawn by First Berkshire & The Thames Valley in the Slough area. A fourth route was later added. The Thames Valley Buses name, historically associated with Thames Valley Traction, was used for the new services. Operation began on 20 January 2018.
Buses have been used on the streets of London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating his horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City.In 1850, Thomas Tilling started horse bus services, and in 1855 the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) was founded to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn omnibus services then operating in London.
Oxford Bus Company was allocated the Oxford city services and the London routes, and South Midland was allocated the remainder of the network. Both companies were subject to management buyouts . The South Midland company was soon resold to Thames Transit (later Stagecoach South Midlands ), which introduced minibus competition.