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Buses in the Border Towns of London Country 1969-2019 (South of the Thames)
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Malcolm Batten

Buses in the Border Towns of London Country 1969-2019

South of the Thames

Malcolm Batten

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English
Pen & Sword Transport
01 March 2024
Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest
London Transport was created in 1933 with monopoly powers. Not only did it have exclusive rights to run bus (and tram and trolleybus) services in the Greater London area, it also ran services in a Country Area all around London. Green Line express services linked the country towns to London and in most cases across to other country towns the other side of the metropolis. This country area extended north as far as Hitchin, east to Brentwood, south to Crawley and west to Windsor. But what of the towns at the edge of the country area? Here the green London Transport buses would meet the bus companies whose operations extended across the rest of the counties of Berkshire, Surrey, Kent etc. In some cases the town was at a node where more than one company worked in. Elsewhere, such as at Guildford there were local independent operators who had a share in the town services. It would all change from 1970 when the London Transport Country Area was transferred to the National Bus Company to form a new company named London Country Bus Services. This would later be split into four separate companies. Deregulation in 1985 and privatisation in the 1990s led to further changes in the names and ownership of bus companies. Consolidation since then has seen the emergence of national bus groups – Stagecoach, First Group, Arriva and Go-Ahead replacing the old names and liveries. But retrenchment by these companies has given an opportunity for new independent companies to fill the gaps. This book takes the form of an anti-clockwise tour around the perimeter of the London Country area, south of the Thames featuring a number of key towns starting at Slough and Windsor and ending at Gravesend, illustrating some of the many changes to bus companies that have occurred.

AUTHOR: Malcolm Batten is a retired librarian with a lifelong interest in transport, particularly buses. He has been photographing contemporary and preserved transport subjects since 1969 and is the author of more than twenty books on transport history. A Londoner, his photographic interests began at a time when London Transport was about to be split up and when the National Bus Company had just been formed. He has followed the fortunes of bus operators around London and the Home Counties ever since.

170 colour, 50 b/w illustrations
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Imprint:   Pen & Sword Transport
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 282mm,  Width: 216mm, 
ISBN:   9781399096218
ISBN 10:   1399096214
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Malcolm Batten is a retired librarian with a lifelong interest in transport, particularly buses. He has been photographing contemporary and preserved transport subjects since 1969 and is the author of more than twenty books on transport history. A Londoner, his photographic interests began at a time when London Transport was about to be split up and when the National Bus Company had just been formed. He has followed the fortunes of bus operators around London and the Home Counties ever since.

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