Fife Buses From Alexanders (Fife) to Stagecoach
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-07-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1445623420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The History of Fife buses from 1960 to the early 1990s.
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-07-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1445623420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The History of Fife buses from 1960 to the early 1990s.
Author: Professor of Ecclesiastical History Stewart J Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2012-01-05
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780711035522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1961 Scotland's biggest bus company, W Alexander & Sons of Falkirk, was divided into three separate businesses. A new Midland company took over what had been the southern area of the business, and retained Alexander's blue livery and its Falkirk head office. It operated local services to the north and east of Glasgow, and in Stirling, Falkirk, Alloa, Perth and Oban. It also operated inter-urban services throughout this area, and to Edinburgh and Dundee. Operations in Fife passed to a new Fife company, with local services throughout the region, and long-distance services to Glasgow. The Fife company had around 500 buses and adopted a new livery of Ayres red. It established its head office in Kirkcaldy. Alexander's northern region became the new Northern company. Its operations covered the east of Scotland from Dundee to the Moray Firth. As well as a comprehensive network of services throughout the area, it had limited local operations in Dundee and Aberdeen, and ran long-distance services south to Glasgow and east to Inverness. For the following 24 years the three companies' operating territories remained largely unchanged. Each of them acquired many of the small number of independent bus operators in their areas as the 1960s progressed. The Scottish Bus Group was reorganised in June 1985 and this affected two of the Alexander companies. Midland lost its Glasgow area operations to a new company, Kelvin, while its operations in Perthshire went to another new company, Strathtay. Northern lost its operations in and around Tayside to the new Strathtay business, reducing the Northern fleet from 320 to 250 buses. Fife was unaffected by the changes. They were privatised in 1990-91 when Midland was sold to GRT Holdings and continues today as part of FirstGroup. Northern and Fife were sold to Stagecoach, which would later also acquire Strathtay. This book outlines the Alexander story in its early years, then examines the effect of the split in the company in 1961, and the following years up to privatisation. It also includes a postscript, looking briefly at the vehicles inherited by Stagecoach and First, and at the former Alexander operations as they are today. Alongside various colour photographs, the book will also features tables showing a summary by vehicle type of the three fleets in 1961, 1985 and at the time of privatisation and a map copied from a 1960s timetable to illustrate the extent of the three companies' operating areas.
Author: Keith A. Jenkinson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1445678721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look back on the first twenty years of the iconic Stagecoach brand, with a wealth of previously unpublished images.
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445611643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Walter Burt explores the history of tram and bus services in Kirkcaldy and the surrounding area.
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 144561667X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Walter Burt explores the history of tram and bus services in St Andrews and North-East Fife.
Author: Peter Findlay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-06-15
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1445615517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the buses operated by Northern Scottish.
Author: John Law
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-12-15
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1445695529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Law has been photographing Lancashire's buses since 1974, building up a massive collection of images. He has put together the best and most interesting of these within this book.
Author: David Moth
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1398110809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Previously unpublished images of this local Scottish bus scene since 1990s. Perth itself is an attractive city, and provides the perfect background to this interesting selection of vehicles.
Author: John Law
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445656418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating collection of photographs gives an insight into Cambridgeshire's buses.
Author: Kenny Barclay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1445670003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rare and unpublished images from this iconic period in Scotland's transport history.