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Lancashire United〔(Companies House extract company no 2546070 ) Lancashire United Limited〕 is a bus operator, running services in the boroughs of Blackburn, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Blazefield. ==History== In April 2001, Stagecoach sold its East Lancashire operations to the Blazefield Travel. Soon after the business was split in two. The Blackburn, Bolton, Clitheroe and Hyndburn became Lancashire United〔 and the remainder Burnley & Pendle. Investment commenced in new vehicles almost immediately, with the first of 30 new Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLEs arriving in September 2001. A number of service revisions followed with many marginal services withdrawn and a number of school contracts were terminated. Much of this work, mainly contracted to Lancashire County Council, was picked up by Northern Blue. A focus was then made on developing high quality trunk routes, namely the 152, 225 & Hyndburn Circulars. Also later the X1. In 2002, the Bolton garage was sold on to independent operator Blue Bus. The contracted services in the Clitheroe area were relinquished and the garage was sold to a housing developer. Most of the Clitheroe contracted work passed to Northern Blue. In January 2006, Lancashire United was included in the sale of Blazefield Travel to Transdev.〔(Transdev acquires Blazefield Group ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 7 January 2006〕〔(A new stop for Blazefield ) ''Yorkshire Post'' 9 January 2006〕 Unlike the other Transdev Blazefield subsidiaries it retains it pre-acquisition trading name. In January 2007, Blackburn Transport was purchased from Blackburn with Darwen Council with 130 buses〔(Completed acquisition by Lancashire United Limited of the business and assets of Blackburn Borough Transport Limited ) Office of Fair Trading 24 April 2007〕〔(Blackburn Transport - The End ) Olive Green & Ivory〕 followed in August 2007 by Accrington Transport and Northern Blue of Burnley with 65 buses.〔(Blazefield buys again in Lancashire ) ''busandcoach.com'' 9 August 2007〕 In September 2009, Transdev Northern Blue was integrated into Transdev Burnley & Pendle. In March 2008, Lancashire United took over the Accrington local bus network from Accrington Transport. This resulted in Clitheroe services being reacquired by Lancashire United for a second time through the Northern Blue takeover, however these ceased to be operated in June 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lancashire United」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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