Coastal Liner

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Coastal Liner
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Costal liner Volvo B12BLE Bustech VST MK1.jpg
A Coastal liner Volvo B12BLE Chassis on a Bustech VST MK1 bodied at White Bay in 2024
Parent ComfortDelGro Australia
Commenced operation1988
Headquarters Warnervale
Service area Central Coast
Service typeBus & coach operator
Routes4
Depots1
Fleet31 (November 2019)
Website www.coastalliner.com.au

Coastal Liner is an Australian bus company operating services on the New South Wales Central Coast. It is a subsidiary of ComfortDelGro Australia.

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History

Established in 1986 after the acquisition of the Dooralong to Wyong bus run from local operator James McElhinney, Coastal Liner commenced operating under its original business name of Dooralong Valley Bus Service. In 1988 owner Frank Caruna acquired the bus runs previously operated by Coast and Country (Len Robson), covering parts of Dooralong, Jilliby, Wyee and Warnervale, with the fleet increasing from two to three. [1] [2] [3] [4]

In August 2018 the business was purchased by ComfortDelGro Australia with the routes absorbed by Hunter Valley Buses. [5] [6] [7] However, as of March 2020, the brand continues to exist as a division of Hunter Valley Buses. [8]

Services

Coastal Liner operated services in the Outer Sydney Metropolitan Bus Service Region 11, [9] which originally used to be part of Region 6 when the latter was created in 2008. [10]

Fleet

As of November 2019, the fleet consists of 31 buses and coaches. [4] Fleet livery is white, green and yellow. In 2014 new buses appeared in a variation to the Transport for NSW white and blue livery. [11]

Depots

Coastal Liner operate out of a depot in Warnervale.

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References

  1. COASTAL LINER Archived 10 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine aihitdat
  2. "Dooralong Valley Bus Service" Fleetline issue 177 April 1990 page 80
  3. "Deuce" Fleetline issue 186 January 1991 page 9
  4. 1 2 Coastal Liner Archived 23 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Australian Bus Fleet Lists
  5. "ComfortDelGro Deepens Footprint in Australia with Two Acquisitions Totaling A$134.45 Million". ComfortDelgro. 7 August 2018. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  6. "ComfortDelGro invests S$136.5m in Australian bus assets". Channel NewsAsia. 7 August 2018. Archived from the original on 7 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  7. CDC buys Sydney's oldest privately run family bus company: Forest Coachlines Australasian Bus & Coach 8 August 2018
  8. "About Us". Coastal Liner. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  9. "Sydney Metropolitan and Outer Metropolitan Bus Service Contract on time running results". Transport for NSW. December 2017. Archived from the original on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  10. "Outer Metropolitan Sydney Bus Contract Regions 6 and 7" (PDF). NSW Government Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  11. New Coastal Liner bus Archived 8 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Bus Australia Photo Gallery