Day to day management remains within individual companies. It also coincides with appointment a group director for all UK operations and head office relocations, bringing all operations under a single strategic managament structure. This is intended to achieve greater recognition for all the group companies, to coincide with recent rail acquisitions and after current rail operations had improved in reliability to warrant association with the established express coach image. On 11 November 2007, National Express Group announced plans to re-brand their constituent companies under a new unified National Express identity. The new National Express group name typeface and sub-branding graphic device, as applied to the National Express East Coast rail franchise The previous National Express branding as worn only by the main coach division, before rebranding and group roll-out File:East coast slice.gif It led to a strange situation developing, as Westbus at the time of acquisition owned a subsidiary operation in London, called Westbus in Australia that still operates and is managed from Sydney.ĭecember 2007 restructuring File:National Express Coach.jpg Only one bus operator was retained, Westbus in Australia. At one time it had extensive bus, rail and tram operations in Australia, but with the collapse of the group there, all operations were either sold off or had control returned to the State Government (see ' Services formerly operated'). The group has also moved into operations outside the UK. This included a number of services in South West London and Surrey. Īlso in mid 2005, the group bought the London buses arm of Tellings Golden Miller and branded it Travel London. Alsa's operations in South America and China were retained by the previous owners. In 2005 National Express agreed to buy most of operations of privately owned Spanish transport operator Alsa, which operates bus and coach services in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, and long-distance coach services to other parts of Europe. Since then seven further franchises have been added, and rail services now account for the largest portion of the group's activity. In 1996 the group acquired its first UK rail franchises, Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline.Since then Travel Coventry has been spun out of Travel West Midlands, and Travel Dundee and Travel London have been acquired. In 1995, West Midlands Travel, the formerly municipally-owned bus network of Birmingham and the West Midlands, was acquired and renamed Travel West Midlands in September 1996.In 1993 the group acquired Eurolines and East Midlands Airport, although the latter has since been sold.In 1992, National Express Group PLC was floated on the London Stock Exchange with a remit to acquire new businesses in the passenger transport market. With the privatisation of the NBC in the 1980s, National Express was subject to a management buy-out in 1988. The National Express network was largely a branding and management exercise, with services continuing to be operated by the individual companies. The National Express brand was created in 1972 by the state-owned National Bus Company ( NBC) to bring together the express bus and coach services operated the bus operating companies within the NBC group.
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