Capital Citybus
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| Parent | Management (52.5%) Lloyds Development Capital (47.5%) |
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| Founded | 29 December 1990 |
| Ceased operation | 8 July 1998 |
| Headquarters | Dagenham |
| Service area | East London |
| Service type | Bus operator |
| Chief executive | Steven Norris (chairman) |
Capital Citybus was a bus operator in London operating services under contract to London Regional Transport.
Capital Citybus was established on 29 December 1990, with the purchase of the London tendered bus services of Ensignbus by the Hong Kong businessman Tsui Tsin-tong's CNT Group, which also owned bus operator Citybus.
Citybus purchased the London tendered routes, Dagenham garage and 87 buses and rebranded the operation as Capital Citybus. In 1991, it gained a large number of routes after the collapse of London Regional Transport subsidiary London Forest and further tendering and opened Northumberland Park garage.
On 21 December 1995, CNT Group sold Capital Citybus in a management buyout backed by Lloyds Development Capital.
On 8 July 1998, Capital Citybus was sold to FirstGroup. After a period of initially operating separately, the company was integrated into the other First London operations.
As Capital Citybus originated from Ensign, the fleet experienced several livery iterations from their inherited blue and silver scheme, starting out as merely Ensign blue/silver vehicles with Ensign Citybus fleetnames painted over where the Ensignbus name was, into variations of yellow and silver.
The company settled on an allover yellow livery with stylised C logos either side of the destination blind on the front of the bus. Initially buses had red fleetnames incorporating the Chinese characters "城巴" (Citybus) and the stylised C with the Capital Citybus name, along with taglines such as "moving comfortably ahead" and "here today... here tomorrow". After the sale of the company to its management, the fleetname was subsequently modified to just Capital Citybus. with the Chinese characters and stylised C phased out.
Capital Citybus was a frequent contractor for British Rail and London Underground replacement service work, and during its existence operated specially liveried vehicles for Docklands Light Railway and the East London Line replacement services.
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