First Badgerline
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Badgerline, based in Weston-super-Mare, was a bus company operating in the south west of England during the latter part of the 20th century.
Badgerline was formed in 1983 from part of the Bristol Omnibus Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned National Bus Company based in Bristol, England. When the company was privatised in 1986 it was sold to its management team. The livery featured a friendly Badger cartoon on a green and yellow background. Badgerline became an expansive Group and effectively recreated The Bristol Omnibus Company by buying Midland Red West, which owned Bristol Cityline.
All the Group's buses carried the friendly Badger logo. Nine years later Badgerline merged with Grampian Regional Transport and formed FirstGroup, based in Aberdeen, which incorporates trains, buses, and the famous yellow school buses that take students to school in North America.
The companies in the Badgerline group as at the merger with GRT were:
- Badgerline
- B-Line
- City Line
- Eastern National
- Frontline Buses
- Midland Red West (including Midland Red Coaches)
- Potteries Motor Traction (including Pennine Blue, Red Rider and Crosville)
- SWT
- Thamesway
- Wessex Coaches
- Western National
- Yorkshire Rider
