On Saturday 1 May 1948, Rockhampton City Council officially took control of the town’s urban bus services from private ownership in order to improve service frequencies, introduce coordinated schedules between … Continue reading Rockhampton City Council private operator takeovers
While the area is now subsumed by Brisbane Airport, Cribb Island was once a popular seaside resort for the people of Brisbane. The origins of the first motor bus service … Continue reading Cribb Island Bus Service
The story begins during the early 1970s when Reg and Yvonne Clark had their eldest daughter attending their local primary school, Loganholme State School, 30 kilometres to the south of … Continue reading Clark’s Logan City Bus Service
The story begins back in 1942 when a 16-year old Stan Young began working for Monty Davies as a driver on his Port Curtis-Gracemere passenger service. Remarkably, this was not … Continue reading Young’s Bus Service
The story begins back in 1954 when Roland Polley traded in his family farm at Wallumbilla near Roma in Western Queensland, for a move to the coastal town of Tin … Continue reading Polley’s Coaches
The Nundah Bus Service is one of Brisbane's lesser known private bus operations. Proprietor Ivan Godfred Franklin was originally a body builder by trade at Austral Motors, before starting his … Continue reading Nundah Bus Service (I.G. Franklin)
Nestled in the heart of the Lockyer Valley and south of Wivenhoe Dam is the town of Coominya, a place where the Burns family has called home for over 60 … Continue reading Burns Bus Service
Following the expiration of its toll franchise over the Hornibrook Bridge in October 1975, M R Hornibrook Pty Ltd sold its Hornibrook Highway Bus Service business to Victorian bus proprietors … Continue reading Hornibrook Bus Lines
The McGrath family's Black & White Buses plied between the bayside suburb of Sandgate and the city of Brisbane for a period of 27 years. Before they got started in … Continue reading Black & White Buses (Sandgate)
The story begins in 1932 with the start of construction of a privately funded toll bridge providing a direct link between Brisbane and the coastal city of Redcliffe. Conceived and … Continue reading Hornibrook Highway Bus Service