Quality Line
South West London Surrey | |
| Service type | Bus services |
|---|---|
| Routes | 10 |
| Destinations | Epsom Ewell Morden Sutton Hook |
| Fleet | 66 |
| Website | www.ratpdevtransitlondon.com |
Quality Line was a bus company based in
History
In 1986,
In 1997, Epsom Buses expanded into the London Bus market initially winning the tenders for routes
In 2003, Epsom Coaches rebranded its bus division as Quality Line and repainted its vehicles from their traditional cream and brown into all over red to comply with Transport for London contractual requirements.
From July 2006 with the introduction of routes E15 and E16, Quality Line began to return to operating outside London with buses in their traditional cream and brown livery, however since the displacement of Alexander bodied Dennis Darts from route S1, buses outside London have been appearing in red once again. In late 2012 out of London buses were starting to appear in all over cream with burgundy flashes.
Until May 2007, the whole fleet consisted of only single decker buses. Since June 2007, Quality Line have operated
On 20 April 2012, Epsom Coaches was taken over by the RATP Group.[1][4]
On 12 October 2012, Quality Line took over the commercial operation of
On 3 December 2016, the company took over
In June 2017 as part of a restructure of RATP's operations, Epsom Coaches ceased trading while the remaining operations continued under the Quality Line brand. It was brought under the same management as RATP's other London operations, London United and London Sovereign.[7][8]
On 24 April 2020, routes
In January 2021, RATP announced that it was to close Quality Line.
References
- ^ a b c History Archived 7 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Epsom Coaches
- ISBN 9781445661803.
- ISBN 9781473862319.
- ^ RATP buys Epsom Coaches Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine Bus & Coach Professional 20 April 2012
- ^ Notices and Proceedings The Traffic Commissioner for the South Eastern and Metropolitan Area 26 October 2012
- ^ "Quality Line goes for Citaro K for TfL tender". Route One. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ The end of Epsom Coaches operation Archived 7 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Coach & Bus Week 5 April 2017
- ^ Epsom Coaches to close in three months time Archived 7 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Route One 5 April 2017
- ^ RATP reorganises and retires London's last Versas Buses issue 781 April 2020 page 24
- ^ "RATP Dev to close its Quality Line subsidiary". 12 January 2021. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ Short Hops Buses issue 795 June 2021 page 24
- ^ Routes to go to Go-Ahead when RATP leaves Epsom Buses issue 791 February 2021 page 8
External links
Media related to Quality Line at Wikimedia Commons
