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National Express〔(Companies House extract company no 232767 ) National Express Limited〕 is an intercity coach operator providing services throughout England, Scotland and Wales. It is a subsidiary of the National Express Group. Most services are subcontracted to local coach companies. The company's head office is in offices above the Birmingham Coach Station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LSH plays integral role in £15m redevelopment of Birmingham Coach Station )〕 ==History== Pursuant to the Transport Act 1968, the National Bus Company was formed as a holding company for the many state-owned local bus companies. Many of these bus companies also operated coach services and these were initially branded as ''National'', the ''National Express'' brand was first used in 1974 although the coach services continued to be operated by the individual companies.〔(National Express Group: Our History ) National Express〕〔(National Express Group PLC and Saltire Holdings Ltd ) Monopolies & Mergers Commission February 1994 page 3〕 Coach services were de-regulated under the Transport Act 1980 and buses by the Transport Act 1985. In March 1988 National Express was privatised in a management buyout.〔(Express sale set for DTp approval ) ''Commercial Motor'' 10 March 1988〕 In July 1989 the company bought ATL Holdings〔(Companies House extract company no 2036613 ) Airlinks The Airport Coach Company Limited formerly Airport Express Trains Limited formerly ATL (Holdings) Limited〕 with operations in Sheffield and a 50% share in Yelloway Trathen, which was renamed Trathen Travel Services.〔(Companies House extract company no 1792858 ) Trathern Travel Services Limited formerly Yellow-Trathern Express Limited〕〔(National snaps up ATL ) ''Commercial Motor'' 27 July 1989〕 In August 1989 the Eurolines services from London to Alicante, Barcelona and Paris were purchased from Wallace Arnold, and the express services in Scotland and to London from Stagecoach with 29 coaches. These were operated under the Caledonian Express brand.〔(National Express grows ) ''Commercial Motor'' 10 August 1989〕 In June 1991 National Express was sold to the Drawlane Group.〔(Companies House extract company no 1946383 ) Burroughs Hill Limited formerly Drawlane Group Transport plc〕〔(Drawlane team snaps up NEG ) ''Commercial Motor'' 4 July 1991〕 In December 1992 National Express Group plc was floated on the London Stock Exchange.〔 For most of its existence, National Express had little, if any, competition in the long-distance coach market. A number of operators had attempted to compete with the company after deregulation in 1980, the largest being the British Coachways consortium, but most had given up competition by the end of the decade. However, in 2003, Stagecoach introduced Megabus, a no-frills service whose £1 fares sparked a price war with National Express in autumn 2004. The competition intensified in 2007 when Megabus transferred its London terminus from the Green Line Coach Station into the main Victoria Coach Station. In November 2007 National Express announced plans to re-brand all its operations under a new unified National Express identity.〔(New Identity for National Express Group ) National Express 15 November 2007〕 As part of this the coach operation received a slightly different livery, retaining the red white and blue theme, but with a new lower-case logo. Coaches started appearing in the new livery from December 2007. 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「National Express Coaches」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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