Yorkshire Coastliner
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| Parent | Transdev |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Harrogate |
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Lancashire Yorkshire |
| Service type | Bus services |
| Chief executive | Alex Hornby |
| Website | www.transdevblazefield.com |
Transdev Blazefield is a bus group in England. It owns six bus companies in the Lancashire and Yorkshire regions. Formed in 1991, since January 2006 it has been a subsidiary of Transdev.
In 1991 Blazefield Travel was formed when Alan Stephenson's AJS Group sold seven bus operations with 300 buses and 12 depots to two of its directors, Giles Fearnley and Stuart Wilde in a management buyout.
At its inception there were seven operating subsidiaries:
AJS Group had purchased West Yorkshire Road Car and London Country North East from National Bus Company in 1988. Prior to the sale the latter was broken in two, Country Bus & Coach and Sovereign Bus & Coach; only the latter becoming part of Blazefield. West Yorkshire was broken into its six depots, Leeds, Bradford, York, Malton, Harrogate and Keighley.
Leeds and Bradford passed to Rider Group on 13 August 1989, which owned Yorkshire Rider, while the remaining four depots became York City & District, Yorkshire Coastliner, Harrogate & District and Keighley & District respectively. The York operation was taken by Rider Group on 29 July 1990.
Expansion soon followed with the purchase in November 1991 of Cambridge Coach Services from AJS with 14 buses, and Watford based Lucketts. Ingfield of Settle was purchased in April 1992 and was merged with Keighley-based Northern Rose to form Ingfield-Northern Rose.
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