John Luxton
Established Member
Something which has puzzled me in the transport world during the past 30 years.
Since the disappearance of British Railways we have seen some TOCs adopt the identities of the old railway companies - GWR, Southern, LNER.
However, in the bus world so many of the old operator names have disappeared at least from the fleetnames, (I know some linger as legal entities which are part of the big groups - but they remain invisible).
I wonder why the big bus groups found the need to just kill off so many old names which had a good degree of regional recognition and local loyalty?
For a while it looked as though Badgerline would contine the old names - though that ended when they formed First Group with Grampian Transport.
The original company names seemed to survive grouping under Tilling / BET, Transport Holding Company and National Bus Company but died out late 1990s.
Anyone have an explanation for this?
Since the disappearance of British Railways we have seen some TOCs adopt the identities of the old railway companies - GWR, Southern, LNER.
However, in the bus world so many of the old operator names have disappeared at least from the fleetnames, (I know some linger as legal entities which are part of the big groups - but they remain invisible).
I wonder why the big bus groups found the need to just kill off so many old names which had a good degree of regional recognition and local loyalty?
For a while it looked as though Badgerline would contine the old names - though that ended when they formed First Group with Grampian Transport.
The original company names seemed to survive grouping under Tilling / BET, Transport Holding Company and National Bus Company but died out late 1990s.
Anyone have an explanation for this?