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Western Greyhound〔(Companies House extract company no 3388055 ) Western Greyhound Limited〕 was an English bus operator based in Summercourt, that operated services in Cornwall and Devon from January 1998 until March 2015. ==History== Western Greyhound was established in January 1998 to take over the three vehicles and the contracts of Cornishman Coaches, whose owner was retiring. The new company's managing director was Mark Howarth who had previously managed Western National, the local Badgerline (later FirstGroup) operation, and he was joined by Robin Orwell who had also worked for Badgerline. Within a few weeks R&M Coaches, another local operator, also sold out to Western Greyhound which brought one more vehicle and an office near Newquay bus station. This left one other independent bus operator in the town, Pleasure Travel Minicoaches, but this went out of business and the contracts were also taken on by Western Greyhound.〔(A brief history of Western Greyhound )〕 The company expanded beyond contract and private hire work with their first public timetabled services on 14 December 1998. These two routes (592 and 594) were contracts awarded by Cornwall Council and were operated by three new minibuses. Further contracts were awarded in 2001, and double deck buses were added to the fleet to operate school routes relinquished by First Devon & Cornwall. Since then many more routes have been added to the network including some from Plymouth Citybus and DAC Coaches in the south east, and Hookways in the north. There have also been new routes instigated, such as Newquay to Bodmin, linking the two largest towns in the county hitherto not connected by bus, and a coastal route from Newquay to St Ives.〔 The expanding fleet needed to operate these additional services saw the company move to a larger depot at nearby Summercourt. Initially it used established facilities there, but in 2004 a new purpose-built depot and offices were constructed. In the same year the old Newquay bus station was closed and replaced by a new facility. This is owned by Cornwall Council but is managed on their behalf by Western Greyhound, and their town centre shop was moved into new premises on the site.〔 The company maintains its bus stops and uses satellite tracking to monitor its fleet.〔 In December 2014, the Liskeard based operations were sold to Plymouth Citybus with nine buses,〔(Go Cornwall Bus is launched ) Plymouth Citybus 8 December 2014〕〔(Latest News ) Western Greyhound 10 December 2014〕〔(Go Cornwall in Liskeard ) ''Bus & Coach Buyer'' 11 December 2014〕〔(Go-Ahead takes Western Greyhound Liskeard routes ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 11 December 2014〕 while the remainder of the business was sold to Michael Bishop.〔(Western Greyhound deal safeguards 133 jobs ) ''Bus & Coach Buyer'' 18 December 2014〕〔(Bishop buys Western Greyhound business ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 19 December 2014〕〔(Troubled Western Greyhound bus firm sells rest of business ) ''Cornish Guardian'' 19 December 2014〕 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「Western Greyhound」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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