词条 | Stagecoach in Lincolnshire |
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| name = Stagecoach Lincolnshire | logo = | logo_size = | image = Stagecoach bus 19126 Alexander Dennis Trident II Enviro400 FX07 CMK in Lincoln 11 July 2008.jpg | image_size = 280px | image_caption = Alexander Dennis Enviro400 in Lincoln in 2008 | company_slogan = Greener Smarter Travel | parent = Stagecoach Group | founded = 2005 | headquarters = Lincoln | locale = | service_area = Lincoln, Scunthorpe, Gainsborough, Skegness, Newark-on-Trent, Louth and Grimsby | service_type = bus service | operator = Lincolnshire RoadCar | ceo = Brian Souter | md = [Michelle Hargreaves] | cd = [David Skepper] | od = [Richard Kay] | ed = [Michael Forbes] | website = www.stagecoachbus.com }} Stagecoach Lincolnshire is a bus company, formerly known as Lincolnshire RoadCar, which runs services throughout Lincolnshire. Stagecoach in Lincolnshire is the trading name of the Lincolnshire RoadCar Company Limited, which is a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group, and part of its East Midlands division. HistoryThe Lincolnshire Road Car Company was formed in 1928. Under the Transport Act 1968 it became part of the National Bus Company. Lincolnshire RoadCar ran services from throughout the county of Lincolnshire including some services over the county boundaries to such towns as Newark-on-Trent. Many rural services ran from Lincoln St. Marks Bus Station to the outlying villages surrounding the city. Although these services ran within the city boundary, passengers were not allowed to use them for internal journeys within the city. Bus services within the city of Lincoln were provided by Lincoln City (Corporation) Transport. Lincolnshire RoadCar not only provided long distance services within the county but also town services within many towns in the county, such as Louth and Sleaford, When the Transport Act 1985 deregulated bus services, the National Bus Company was broken up and RoadCar was acquired by the Yorkshire Traction Group in 1988. Upon deregulation passengers were also permitted to use RoadCar services for journeys wholly within the city of Lincoln and RoadCar and city buses started competing on many routes in Lincoln and around the surrounding villages, the city buses leaving the confines of the city for rural routes for the first time. Lincolnshire RoadCar/Yorkshire Traction took over Lincoln City Transport in 1993.[1] On 11 April 2004, a Volvo B7TL double-decker bus with East Lancs Vyking bodywork operated by Lincolnshire RoadCar collided with a number of pedestrians outside the main entrance to Fantasy Island amusement park on Sea Lane in Ingoldmells. Five pedestrians were killed and six more injured, two critically, in the accident.[2][3] Following the accident, RoadCar were found guilty of breaching safety provisions for allowing the driver to operate the vehicle type without proper training and for operating a vehicle with faulty brakes; as a result, they were fined £2,000 at Skegness Magistrates Court on 8 August 2005.[4] The bus driver was found guilty of five counts of causing death by dangerous driving and a single count of driving without due care and attention, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on 9 November 2005.[5] RoadCar became a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group in December 2005, when that company purchased RoadCar's parent company, Traction Group. The company now trades as Stagecoach in Lincolnshire. From March 2006, Stagecoach purchased new buses for the company, among them four Alexander Dennis Darts and five MAN 18.220/Alexander Dennis ALX300s for the Gainsborough area, in a bid to improve services, gradually phasing out the oldest of RoadCar's buses. The new vehicles temporarily featured RoadCar logos in the front and side windows, and buses from other Stagecoach areas were seen in the area during the transition. The existing fleet then had their RoadCar logos removed. At the beginning of August 2006, Stagecoach caused considerable controversy with their decision to make major changes to the bus network in Lincoln. Some services were withdrawn without replacement while others benefited from frequency increases. Following a local media campaign, the company agreed to make some changes to return services to those areas which had lost them. At the same time, the company also lost a majority of its service work in Nottinghamshire to Veolia Transport's subsidiary Dunn-Line and local company KJB. In Autumn 2007 Stagecoach announced the withdrawal of some services in Louth, Lincoln and Gainsborough. The threatened services survived after successful negotiations with the district councils over subsidies. In August 2008, the company's depot in Louth was closed, with some routes being taken over by Skegness and Grimsby depots and a number of contracted routes surrendered. The company opened their brand new depot in Skegness in September 2009. It is located on Burgh Road and cost £2.2 million.[6] Depots
Route brandingStagecoach in Lincolnshire has used and still uses several different branding schemes throughout their network:
References1. ^Making connections in Lincs :: Bus and Coach Magazine {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308222958/http://www.busandcoach.com/featurepage.aspx?id=658&categoryid=0 |date=8 March 2012 }} 2. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3618671.stm 3. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3621305.stm 4. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4132332.stm 5. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4287427.stm 6. ^New Stagecoach depot means Skegness services can grow :: Skegness Standard 7. ^http://www.accessln6.co.uk/ External links
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