摘要: |
Former Tilling Group and National Bus Company subsidiary Eastern Counties in Norfolk and Suffolk was privatised by a management buyout in 1987. It was bought by the GRT Bus Group one year before its merger with Badgerline, creating First, in 1995. Stretching from Ipswich to King's Lynn, it had over 400 buses - still including 143 Bristol VRTs - across much thin territory with many independents. Whilst it acquired some smaller operators and achieved initial growth, today it has under 300 buses, with none in Bury St Edmunds or on the north Norfolk coast, aside from the Excel route in King's Lynn. The Ipswich fleet is now isolated. |