London Regional Transport
1984 Created by the London Regional Transport Act 1984. Placed under direct control of the Secretary of State for Transport. Took over responsibility from the Greater London Council. The headquarters were at the former London Transport Executive building at 55 Broadway.
1985 The company was re-organised into several companies with London Regional Transport as the holding company. London Buses Limited was formed to manage the bus network and London Underground Limited managed the Underground network.
1989 Facing the prospect of deregulation, London Regional Transport split up London Buses into 11 separate companies to give them time to prepare for the open market, including:
- London General Transport Services with 54 bus routes in south-west and central London; based in Mitcham; two subsidiaries of its Central London Midibuses, based at Victoria Basement, and Red Arrow, based at at Walworth.[1]
- Metroline Travel
- Centre West
- London United
- Leaside
- London Central
- London Northern
- London Forest Travel
- Selkent
1994 On the privatisation of British Rail, the Waterloo and City Line passed to the London Underground as part of London Regional Transport management
1994/95 The bus units were sold.
2000 Responsibility for public transport in London transferred to Transport for London, an agency of the newly created Greater London Authority
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Commercial Motor 6 April 1989