Municipal bus company

A municipal bus company is an operator of bus services owned by the local government authority. This article lists all current municipal bus companies in the United Kingdom.

Several municipal bus companies disappeared in 1968 and 1974 with the formation of the PTE bus operations.

Of the remaining municipals, post-1986 many were sold off or collapsed in the process of bus deregulation, which required their separation into stand-alone arms-length companies. A few remaining companies have accepted minority-stake holdings in their companies by private bus operating companies, as a method of securing investment.

Local Authorities	Company	Number of Vehicles (approx)	Private Shareholdings
Blackpool	Blackpool Transport	175 (and 75 trams)
Cardiff	Cardiff Bus	240
City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian	Lothian Buses	600
Halton	Halton Transport	61
Ipswich	Ipswich Buses	71
Newport	Newport Transport	90
Nottingham	Nottingham City Transport	360 (and 15 trams operated by NET)	17% owned by Transdev
Reading	Reading Transport	200
Rossendale	Rossendale Transport	100
Swindon	Thamesdown Transport	105
Warrington	Warrington Borough Transport	115

See also

• List of bus operating companies
• List of bus companies of the United Kingdom
• Former municipal bus companies of the United Kingdom
• History of the PTE bus operations
• Wightbus - Set up and owned by the Isle of Wight council, but after deregulation, therefore not a municipal.

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