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Post by wirewiper on Jan 1, 2020 15:17:01 GMT
... since London Transport was divested of its Country Bus Division.
On the first day of the 1970s London Country Bus Services came into being, as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company. The NBC had been created exactly one year earlier, when the Government amalgamated its Tilling Group services which it had acquired in 1948, and its British Electric Group holdings which had been sold to the Government in 1968. The Country Bus Division was created as part of the London Transport Act of 1933 which paved the way for the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board, and was designed to protect the Country area operations of the London General Omnibus Company.
From the same date, control of London Transport passed from the Government to the Greater London Council.
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Post by busaholic on Jan 1, 2020 17:01:43 GMT
... since London Transport was divested of its Country Bus Division. On the first day of the 1970s London Country Bus Services came into being, as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company. The NBC had been created exactly one year earlier, when the Government amalgamated its Tilling Group services which it had acquired in 1948, and its British Electric Group holdings which had been sold to the Government in 1968. The Country Bus Division was created as part of the London Transport Act of 1933 which paved the way for the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board, and was designed to protect the Country area operations of the London General Omnibus Company. From the same date, control of London Transport passed from the Government to the Greater London Council. I'd be lying if I said 'I remember it well' but January 1st was a working day then and I was in my seventh week working for L.T. at 55 Broadway in the Central Bus Dept., now with the word Central dropped. I do remember we were all issued with new staff passes (''stickies'') as those of us in admin jobs there at the witching hour were still allowed to use LCBS bus (but NOT Green Line) routes in perpetuity, whereas newbies couldn't. I suspect I was the last one to scrape in! There was still a good relationship between top people at LT and LCBS which eased the severance somewhat, and co-operation continued at an operational level for several years, helped by the then hands-off approach of LT's new political bosses in the Tory-run GLC. Blimey, fifty years. Where did my youth go? In good panto tradition ''it's behind you.''
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 1, 2020 17:39:24 GMT
... since London Transport was divested of its Country Bus Division. On the first day of the 1970s London Country Bus Services came into being, as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company. The NBC had been created exactly one year earlier, when the Government amalgamated its Tilling Group services which it had acquired in 1948, and its British Electric Group holdings which had been sold to the Government in 1968. The Country Bus Division was created as part of the London Transport Act of 1933 which paved the way for the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board, and was designed to protect the Country area operations of the London General Omnibus Company. From the same date, control of London Transport passed from the Government to the Greater London Council. I'd be lying if I said 'I remember it well' but January 1st was a working day then and I was in my seventh week working for L.T. at 55 Broadway in the Central Bus Dept., now with the word Central dropped. I do remember we were all issued with new staff passes (''stickies'') as those of us in admin jobs there at the witching hour were still allowed to use LCBS bus (but NOT Green Line) routes in perpetuity, whereas newbies couldn't. I suspect I was the last one to scrape in! There was still a good relationship between top people at LT and LCBS which eased the severance somewhat, and co-operation continued at an operational level for several years, helped by the then hands-off approach of LT's new political bosses in the Tory-run GLC. Blimey, fifty years. Where did my youth go? In good panto tradition ''it's behind you.'' Yes I remember when I worked for London Transport in the early 1980s there were still a lot of staff passes around that were also valid on LCBS - sadly I was much too young to have qualified. I do remember there was co-ordination between London Transport and London Country for some years; LCBS services used to charge London Transport fares within Greater London and they also accepted bus passes. As the seventies wore on some London Transport routes that operated outside Greater London were cut back and replaced by LCBS services, this was usually at the instigation of local authorities who preferred LCBS as they had gradually reduced their operating costs and did not require the same levels of subsidy. London Country had a rough first few years, but by the end of the decade sheer persistence by the management team had turned it round. Its reinvention of the Green Line network in particular was quite stunning and took full advantage of a time when the image of rail travel was poor and most of the services were distinctly lacklustre (a couple of major rail strikes didn't help either) and before congestion really started to bite on the road network. Indeed so good had the company's reputation become that, when the National Bus Company was split up and sold off in the 1980s it was argued that it should be sold off as a single company.
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Post by John tuthill on Jan 1, 2020 18:20:19 GMT
... since London Transport was divested of its Country Bus Division. On the first day of the 1970s London Country Bus Services came into being, as a subsidiary of the National Bus Company. The NBC had been created exactly one year earlier, when the Government amalgamated its Tilling Group services which it had acquired in 1948, and its British Electric Group holdings which had been sold to the Government in 1968. The Country Bus Division was created as part of the London Transport Act of 1933 which paved the way for the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board, and was designed to protect the Country area operations of the London General Omnibus Company. From the same date, control of London Transport passed from the Government to the Greater London Council. And that is progress
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