In August 1999, National Express won the M>Train, M>Tram and V/Line Passenger rail franchises in the Australian state of Victoria. Westbus also had a London coach operation. National Bus Company had bus operations in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, and also held a 57% shareholding in Westbus, Sydney's largest bus operator. In May 1999, National Express purchased Australia's largest private bus operator, National Bus Company. These acquisitions placed National Express as one of the top three United States school bus operators. In February 1999, Robinson Bus Service was purchased followed in August 1999 by Durham Transportation.
In September 1998, Crabtree-Harmon, the seventh-largest student transportation bus company in the United States was acquired, with 82 school bus contracts mainly in Missouri, but also in other Midwest states including Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah.
In February 1997, Taybus Public Transport was acquired and rebranded Travel Dundee. To comply with a Monopolies & Mergers Commission ruling on it winning the ScotRail franchise, National Express sold the Scottish Citylink operation to Metroline in August 1998. Other franchises won in 1997 were Silverlink, Central Trains and ScotRail. In April 1996, National Express commenced operating its first UK rail franchises, Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline. Bournemouth Airport was acquired in April 1995. In April 1995 National Express purchased West Midlands Travel, the formerly council owned bus network of Birmingham and the West Midlands and rebranded it Travel West Midlands in September 1996. In 1993, Scottish Citylink, Eurolines and East Midlands Airport were acquired. In December 1992, National Express Group plc was floated on the London Stock Exchange. In October 1991, it purchased Speedlink, an operator of coach services between Gatwick and Heathrow Airports.
The new team refocused the group on its core activities and sold Crosville Wales to British Bus. A new management team took over the company in July 1991, with the backing of mid-market private equity firm, ECI Partners. The management team began to diversify, and in 1989 they purchased Crosville Wales but its financial performance began to deteriorate from early 1990. With the privatisation of the National Bus Company in the 1980s, National Express was subject to a management buyout in March 1988. Initially branded as National, the National Express brand was first used in 1974. Sir Frederick Wood, a prominent businessman and industrialist, was asked to oversee the creation of this new business model and led the group as its chairman from 1972 to 1978. In 1972, the state-owned National Bus Company decided to bring together the scheduled coach services operated by its bus operating companies in the United Kingdom under one brand.
History Former National Express logo Duple Dominant bodied Leyland Tiger in Liverpool in 1982 in the original livery Midland Mainline High Speed Train at London St Pancras Travel London Alexander ALX400 bodied Dennis Trident 2 at Trafalgar Square in April 2008 It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It operates bus, coach, train and tram services in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland (National Express operates Eurolines in conjunction with Bus Éireann), United States, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Germany, Bahrain, and Morocco and long-distance coach services across Europe. Mobico Group, formerly National Express Group, is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Birmingham, England.
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