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North Western Road Car Company (1986)
The North Western Road Car Company, commonly abbreviated to North Western, was a bus operator based in Aintree in Merseyside, running services in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. Following its sale from the National Bus Company, the company was a subsidiary of the Drawlane Group and its successor British Bus, and operated services between September 1986 and January 1998. The company today trades as part of Arriva North West.
In the lead up to the deregulation of the bus industry in Great Britain, which resulted in the breakup of the National Bus Company (NBC) on 26 October 1986, the government stipulated that the NBC split their larger business units to boost competition. Of these included Ribble Motor Services, whose operations stretched across North West England in the counties of Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside. In March 1986, alongside a split of Cumbrian garages to fellow NBC subsidiary Cumberland Motor Services, it was agreed that Ribble's depots in Aintree and Bootle (on Merseyside), as well as Skelmersdale (in Lancashire) and Wigan (in Greater Manchester), were to transfer to a reconstituted North Western Road Car Company, with the company officially being launched on 7 September at an event at the Aintree Racecourse.
The North Western Road Car Company name had previously been used by a National Bus Company subsidiary originally founded in 1923, which was based in Stockport and ran operations in Cheshire, Derbyshire, southeast Lancashire and what eventually became Greater Manchester. The subsidiary was split up by the NBC in 1972, with parts of North Western absorbed by Crosville Motor Services, Ribble Motor Services, Trent Motor Traction and the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive.
Upon its formation with a fleet of 260 buses inherited from Ribble, the new North Western Road Car Company adopted a diagonal red and blue livery broken up by a grey stripe to replace Ribble's NBC corporate red livery, with white fleetnames identifying the company as 'North Western'. The new company was initially based in Bootle, with operations later moving to Aintree in 1989.
In March 1988, North Western was sold by the NBC to the Drawlane Group, who organised the company to run as a fully autonomous subsidiary.
In February 1989, the Drawlane Group purchased the English operations of former NBC subsidiary Crosville Motor Services, split from its Welsh operations and running services in Cheshire, the Wirral and parts of Greater Manchester, from ATL Group holding company ATL (Western). Initially, Drawlane had planned to maintain Crosville as a subsidiary company. However, as Crosville's English operations bordered with both North Western's and fellow Drawlane subsidiary Midland Red North's own, the company was split in a November 1989 reorganisation of Drawlane's North West England operations, with depots and 80 vehicles in Runcorn, Warrington and Winsford being transferred to North Western.
In October 1989, Drawlane agreed a deal with Stagecoach Holdings to sell North Western's operations in Blackburn to Stagecoach Ribble, in exchange for Drawlane purchasing both Greater Manchester-based minibus operator Bee Line Buzz Company and Stagecoach East Midland's FrontRunner North West operation. The two companies were merged together as a North Western subsidiary operating from depots in Glossop and Stockport, and Bee Line began transitioning from a high-frequency minibus operation to running all Drawlane Group services in south and central Manchester, using conventional double-decker buses transferred from Drawlane's London & Country subsidiary and other operators. Bee Line's Stockport garage was eventually closed in November 1990, with most of the company's minibuses disposed of to bring the fleet down from 320 to 260 buses.
Following Drawlane's initial acquisition of the national coach operator in 1991, in the spring of 1993, the bus operations of National Express were split into British Bus to allow National Express' float on the London Stock Exchange, with North Western gaining the Welsh operations of Crosville Cymru and Liverpool-based Amberline.[citation needed] British Bus' position in Liverpool was consolidated further in July 1993 with the acquisition of Liverline Travel Services, retaining the company as a subsidiary of North Western.
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North Western Road Car Company (1986)
The North Western Road Car Company, commonly abbreviated to North Western, was a bus operator based in Aintree in Merseyside, running services in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. Following its sale from the National Bus Company, the company was a subsidiary of the Drawlane Group and its successor British Bus, and operated services between September 1986 and January 1998. The company today trades as part of Arriva North West.
In the lead up to the deregulation of the bus industry in Great Britain, which resulted in the breakup of the National Bus Company (NBC) on 26 October 1986, the government stipulated that the NBC split their larger business units to boost competition. Of these included Ribble Motor Services, whose operations stretched across North West England in the counties of Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside. In March 1986, alongside a split of Cumbrian garages to fellow NBC subsidiary Cumberland Motor Services, it was agreed that Ribble's depots in Aintree and Bootle (on Merseyside), as well as Skelmersdale (in Lancashire) and Wigan (in Greater Manchester), were to transfer to a reconstituted North Western Road Car Company, with the company officially being launched on 7 September at an event at the Aintree Racecourse.
The North Western Road Car Company name had previously been used by a National Bus Company subsidiary originally founded in 1923, which was based in Stockport and ran operations in Cheshire, Derbyshire, southeast Lancashire and what eventually became Greater Manchester. The subsidiary was split up by the NBC in 1972, with parts of North Western absorbed by Crosville Motor Services, Ribble Motor Services, Trent Motor Traction and the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive.
Upon its formation with a fleet of 260 buses inherited from Ribble, the new North Western Road Car Company adopted a diagonal red and blue livery broken up by a grey stripe to replace Ribble's NBC corporate red livery, with white fleetnames identifying the company as 'North Western'. The new company was initially based in Bootle, with operations later moving to Aintree in 1989.
In March 1988, North Western was sold by the NBC to the Drawlane Group, who organised the company to run as a fully autonomous subsidiary.
In February 1989, the Drawlane Group purchased the English operations of former NBC subsidiary Crosville Motor Services, split from its Welsh operations and running services in Cheshire, the Wirral and parts of Greater Manchester, from ATL Group holding company ATL (Western). Initially, Drawlane had planned to maintain Crosville as a subsidiary company. However, as Crosville's English operations bordered with both North Western's and fellow Drawlane subsidiary Midland Red North's own, the company was split in a November 1989 reorganisation of Drawlane's North West England operations, with depots and 80 vehicles in Runcorn, Warrington and Winsford being transferred to North Western.
In October 1989, Drawlane agreed a deal with Stagecoach Holdings to sell North Western's operations in Blackburn to Stagecoach Ribble, in exchange for Drawlane purchasing both Greater Manchester-based minibus operator Bee Line Buzz Company and Stagecoach East Midland's FrontRunner North West operation. The two companies were merged together as a North Western subsidiary operating from depots in Glossop and Stockport, and Bee Line began transitioning from a high-frequency minibus operation to running all Drawlane Group services in south and central Manchester, using conventional double-decker buses transferred from Drawlane's London & Country subsidiary and other operators. Bee Line's Stockport garage was eventually closed in November 1990, with most of the company's minibuses disposed of to bring the fleet down from 320 to 260 buses.
Following Drawlane's initial acquisition of the national coach operator in 1991, in the spring of 1993, the bus operations of National Express were split into British Bus to allow National Express' float on the London Stock Exchange, with North Western gaining the Welsh operations of Crosville Cymru and Liverpool-based Amberline.[citation needed] British Bus' position in Liverpool was consolidated further in July 1993 with the acquisition of Liverline Travel Services, retaining the company as a subsidiary of North Western.