Hornibrook Bus Lines

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Hornibrook Bus Lines
Hornibrook Bus Lines Scania K280UB (Volgren).jpg
Hornibrook Bus Lines Volgren bodied Scania K280UB in January 2015
Parent Keolis Downer
Founded1935
Headquarters Clontarf
Service area Redcliffe Peninsula
Service typeBus operator
Routes16
Hubs Kippa-Ring
Stations Kippa-Ring
North Lakes
Depots2
Fleet64 (December 2022) [1]
Website www.hornibrook.com.au

Hornibrook Bus Lines is an Australian operator of bus services in the Redcliffe Peninsula and surrounding Upper Bayside area of Brisbane. It operates 16 services under contract to the Queensland Government under the Translink banner.

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History

In August 1935 Hornibrook Highway Bus Service commenced operating a service from Redcliffe to Sandgate station. [2]

In 1975 Hornibrook Bus Lines was purchased by Geoff Mountjoy. [3] By the late 1980s it had purchased Redcliffe-Brisbane Bus Service and Sandgate-Lutwyche Bus Service. [2]

In 1998 South Western Suburban Transit was purchased. [4]

Routes

RouteFromToViaNotes
680 Redcliffe Chermside Kippa-Ring station, North Lakes station, Petrie station & Strathpine Centre
681 North Lakes Mango Hill Mango Hill station AM service, loop service
682 North Lakes Mango Hill Mango Hill station PM service, loop service
683 Dakabin Kallangur Marsden Road & Old Gympie Roadloop service
684 North Lakes Kallangur Duffield Road & Kallangur Fair
685 North Lakes Kallangur Old Gympie Road
686Frenchs Forest Petrie Petrie loop service
687 North Lakes Mango Hill Mango Hill station & North Lakes station
688 North Lakes North Lakes North Lakes station loop service
689 North Lakes North Lakes North Lakes station loop service
690 Redcliffe Sandgate Kippa-Ring station, Scarborough, Redcliffe, Margate, Clontarf & Brighton
691 Scarborough Sandgate Brighton, Clontarf & Redcliffe
694 Kippa-Ring Redcliffe Clontarf, Margate Village Shopping Centre
696 Kippa-Ring Redcliffe Boardman Road, Waterfront, Woody Point & Margate
698 Rothwell Kippa-Ring Morris Road
699 Redcliffe Kippa-Ring Scarborough & Newport

Fleet

As at December 2022, the fleet consisted of 64 buses. [1]

Depots

Depots are operated in Clontarf and North Lakes.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hornibrook Bus Lines - Clontarf". Australian Bus Fleet Lists (Bus Australia). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Hornibrook Highway Bus Service" Australian Bus Panorama issue 6/7 March 1991 page 7
  3. 03 Mountjoy Geoff Archived 20 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Road Transport Hall
  4. "Hornibrook Bus Lines" Australian Bus Panorama issue 14/3 December 1998 page 57