Highland Scottish Omnibuses Ltd was formed as a bus operating subsidiary of the
Scottish Transport Group in June 1985 from Highland Omnibuses Ltd, and operated until October 1995 when the company was split into two - Highland Bus & Coach and Highland Country Buses. The companies have since remerged and operate today as Highland Country Buses.
Background
From its head office in Seafield Road,
Inverness, Highland Scottish operated over the massive geographical, but sparsely populated, area of the
Highland region of north west
Scotland.
Highland Scottish was the largest operator in north west Scotland and was responsible for urban, rural and interurban services in and around the towns of Inverness,
Aviemore,
Nairn,
Tain,
Portree,
Wick,
Thurso and
Fort William, with depots located in these towns. Services extended to
Oban in the south, and Highland also operated coaches on long distance
Scottish Citylink work, linking Inverness and the north west to
Glasgow,
Edinburgh,
Aberdeen and points in
England.
Highland Scottish only operated services on the mainland. Services in the
Inner and
Outer Hebrides,
Orkney and
Shetland were operated by local independent operators.
On May 16, 2008 it was finally announced that the long anticipated purchase of Highland Country Buses (and Orkney Coaches Ltd) by Stagecoach Group had been finalised.
History
Highland Scottish can be traced back to 1952 when Highland Omnibuses was created when Highland Transport, Macrae & Dick and...
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