Southern Vectis

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Southern Vectis
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A Southern Vectis Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC in Shanklin in January 2018
Parent Go-Ahead Group
Founded1921
Service area Isle of Wight
Service typeBus services
Fleet105
Operator Go South Coast
Chief executiveAndrew Wickham
Website www.islandbuses.info OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, founded in 1921 as Dodson and Campbell. It became the Vectis Bus Company in 1923. The company was purchased by Southern Railway before being nationalised in 1969. In 1987, the company was re-privatised, and in July 2005, it became a subsidiary of Go-Ahead Group.

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History

Past lettering and logos
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Tilling Group gold lettering pre-1972
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National Bus Company (1972–1986)
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The logo used from 2006 until 2013
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The logo used from 2013 until 2023

1921–1928

In 1921 in Cowes, the company was founded as Dodson & Campbell. [1] In 1923, it was renamed the Vectis Bus Company. Vectis was the Roman name for the Isle of Wight. The buses were built by the London bus body builder, Christopher Dodson.

Double-deckers at Ryde depot in 1979 Southern Vectis NBC bus Bristol VR ECW ODL 657R and others in Ryde depot, Isle of Wight August 1979.jpg
Double-deckers at Ryde depot in 1979
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Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol RE in post 1995 cream, red and green livery, June 2008

1929–1985

In 1929, the company was purchased by Southern Railway and incorporated as the Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Limited. [2]

In 1948, Southern Railway was nationalised and then in 1969, Southern Vectis became part of the National Bus Company.

1986–2004

In 1986, with deregulation after the Transport Act 1985, the business was sold in a management buy out. [3] [4] Five new operators entered the market on the Isle of Wight.

In 1987, Southern Vectis started Badger Vectis in Poole, and Solent Blue Line in Southampton. The new operations used older Southern Vectis buses and secondhand double-deckers. [5] Southern Vectis also moved into other business areas on the isle of Wight. The company bought a self-drive van hire firm. It also bought two Ford Granada taxis, which ran from the Cowes pontoon, and began taxibus services which continued until 1989. [6]

In 2003, Southern Vectis started The Pink Peril, a school service using a pink bus. [7] [8]

2005–present

In July 2005, Southern Vectis and Solent Blue Line were sold to the Go-Ahead Group and became part of Go South Coast. [9]

In April 2006, the network changed, with Newport the hub and other routes linking to it. Some routes, for example the Island Explore, were lost. However, the changes proved successful. Within 18 months, passenger numbers increased by 45 per cent. This included a 14 per cent growth in fare-paying customers. [10]

In October 2009, Southern Vectis launched a website promoting a car scrappage scheme, which offered island residents a 12-month season ticket for bus journeys if they scrapped their car. The company said five vehicles were scrapped in the first fortnight and that it had received around 6,000 enquiries. [11] [12]

In 2011, Southern Vectis closed its garage in Park Road, Ryde. It is now the site of the Isle of Wight Bus & Coach Museum, [13] though some Southern Vectis buses remain in the neighbouring yard. Most of the fleet is now at the Nelson Road, Newport garage, with other outstations around the island. Another former garage, at Pier Street, Ventnor, was put up for auction in December 2020, with planning permission for two shops and 10 flats, but subsequently withdrawn. [14]

On 13 June 2022, a consortium of Australia's Kinetic Group (51%) and Spain's Globalvia (49%) launched a takeover bid of the Go-Ahead Group. [15] [16] The majority of shareholders accepted the offer in August 2022. [17]

Business practices in the deregulated market

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Gange's Minicoaches alongside a Southern Vectis minibus, late 1980s
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Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol LH at Ryde bus station on route 1A in June 1987

As a result of deregulation in 1986, several competitors started and others increased existing services. These competitors included Gange's Minicoaches, Grand Hotel Tours, Island Travel (Cooke's Coaches of Porchfield), Moss Motor Tours, Seaview Services' RedLynx and Wiltax of Shanklin. [1] [18] Island Travel and Gange's Minicoaches established routes between Cowes and Ryde. [1]

The newly privatised Southern Vectis responded with new business practices. These raised the interest of the Office of Fair Trading which, in 1987, found the behaviour to be anti-competitive. [1] [19]

Duplication

It was alleged that Southern Vectis ran buses immediately ahead of competitors and that its drivers waited for competitors' vehicles in order to beat them to waiting passengers. [20] In 1991, these duplication tactics were seen again when Southern Vectis shadowed an Isle of Wight County Council-contracted bus run by Norman Baker Taxis. [19]

Bus station use

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Competitors using stops outside the Newport bus station

In 1986, Southern Vectis acquired Newport bus station as part of its privatisation and refused competitors access. [21] The Office of Fair Trading report in 1988 found Southern Vectis' behaviour anti-competitive. Southern Vectis was told to allow competitors to use the bus station or to appear before the Competition Commission. Gange's Minicoaches, the plaintiff, was offered stand F in Ryde bus station and a stand in the Newport bus station. Gange's did not agree the charges for either and continued to operate from the opposite side of Ryde bus station on council land, and the South Street bus stop in Newport, until its service ended.

Franchising

Southern Vectis started to franchise its routes[ when? ]. [19] For instance, Southern Vectis franchised Solent Blue Line routes to Marchwood Motorways; the Newport Town Circular was franchised to M-Travel, and then to Alpha Group after M-Travel closed. The Traditional Bus Company and The Village Bus Company franchised open-top routes including the Shanklin Pony.

School bus services

In 2008, after its sale to Go-Ahead Group, Southern Vectis competed with the Isle of Wight Council's Wightbus school services, duplicating routes and claiming term ticket fees for student passengers from the council. [22] In September 2010, the council engaged Southern Vectis to operate many school bus routes. Services began in 2012 under Vectis Blue; the public were not able to use them. In 2021, they integrated into Southern Vectis.

Operations in 2000s

In 2009, Southern Vectis operated 15 standard bus services, [23] the most frequent being route 1, running every 7–8 minutes. [24] Night buses ran on some routes on Friday and Saturday nights: [4]

Open-top buses

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'Needles Breezer' open-top bus at The Needles (2018)

Southern Vectis's Open Top Tours (orange and yellow livery) ran two circular summer routes to tourist destinations. In 2007, Open Top Tours was rebranded Island Breezers (yellow and blue livery). Other open-top tours by Southern Vectis included The Needles Breezer, The Downs Breezer, The Sandown Bay Breeze" (finished 2012).

In 2007, an Island Coaster service started between Ryde and Alum Bay with a £10 all-day ticket, or longer period tickets for residents. [25] [26] [27] The Island Coaster followed the route of two former services, the 12 from Ryde to Sandown and the 7/7A from Sandown to Alum Bay. Stops were at Freshwater Bay and Blackgang Chine, linking them with Ventnor, Shanklin, Sandown and Ryde. To get between Blackgang Chine and Brook near Brighstone, the service used the Military Road.

The 2008 season began on 15 March and finished on 2 November 2008. Route X4 was removed (although still displayed on buses). There was no stop at the Bembridge Coast Hotel or Sandown Esplanade. In 2009, there was only one morning and one afternoon journey each way, one of which terminated or started in Shanklin rather than Ryde and reached from Freshwater Bay to Yarmouth, but not reaching Alum Bay. Coaches were used rather than buses. [28] [29] [30]

In 2011,The Shanklin Steamer began (to Old Village, Shanklin Esplanade, Shanklin Chine and the Shanklin railway station).[ citation needed ].

Tourist road trains

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An Isle of Wight Council Dotto road train

Until September 2009, three tourist road trains operated along the seafront of Ryde, Shanklin and Sandown. The services were run by Southern Vectis under contract to Isle of Wight Council. In April 2010, it was announced that the vehicles would retire due to maintenance costs. In January 2011, the Dotto Trains were sold to a dealer in Llandudno. [31]

Vectis Blue coach transport

In July 2012, a £28m school transport contract was made by the Isle of Wight council and Southern Vectis.[ citation needed ] New Optare Solo SR M920s arrived in September 2012. Some were transferred from the Go-Southcoast subsidiary, Damory Coaches, formed of Volvo B12Ms with Alieeze T9 Bodywork Registered MV02.[ citation needed ] New double deckers from Alexander Dennis were delivered in January 2013.[ citation needed ] Southern Vectis' involvement in coaching had varied through the years; early in the company's history the firm took no interest in coaching, preferring to leave the field to others. However, the company became involved in coaching through acquisition and conglomeration.[ citation needed ]

Some buses had previously been acquired from Fountain Coaches. The company had been assimilated into Southern Vectis when the National Bus Company rationalised in 1969. [32] West Wight Bus & Coach Company and four of its coaches had been purchased by Southern Vectis in 1987. [33] Moss Motor Tours was purchased by Southern Vectis in 1994. Wightrollers' 11 coaches were purchased by Go South Coast in July 2011. Southern Vectis employed staff from the firm. [34]

Other services

The company has been involved in Isle of Wight events such as the Isle of Wight Festival and the Bestival. Additional buses were brought to the island. During the Isle of Wight Festival, extra shuttle services were run from Lymington to Yarmouth Wightlink ferry terminal; from the Southampton to East Cowes Red Funnel ferry terminal; and from the Portsmouth to Fishborne and Portsmouth to Ryde Wightlink ferry terminal and Fastcat passenger boat terminal. [35]

An Open Top Christmas Lights Tour has been operated. One of the company's Island Breezer-liveried buses took a two-hour journey past the most illuminated houses on the island. [36] For 2008, a stop at the Old World Tea Rooms in Godshill was added for complimentary mince pie and a hot drink. [37]

In 2009, the company ran the Sailbus during Cowes Week. [38] There was decreased patronage due to new fares and the service did not run the following year. [39]

Fares and subsidies

Southern Vectis has increased its fares to reflect its market position and lack of effective competition. Fares have also reflected the need to provide free transport to a relatively large population of elderly people on the Isle of Wight. [40] [41]

Students under 19 in full-time education on the Isle of Wight have received discounted fares under the Isle of Wight Council's Student Rider scheme. [42] In July 2010 after cuts in funding from the UK government to local authorities, the scheme was ended.

Island residents and visitors living in England over the qualifying age or with a disability have travelled free in the council area at any time of day, under the government's England-wide scheme. In 2007, the Isle of Wight council reduced its reimbursement to Southern Vectis for free-travelling passengers from 76 per cent to 46 per cent. [43] In 2009, concessionary travel accounted for just under half of all journeys on Southern Vectis. [10] In 2010, free travel was restricted to off-peak times. [44]

On 17 March 2008, Southern Vectis ended several evening, night and Sunday routes. [45] [46] Details of the service cuts emerged soon afterwards. [47] On 1 September 2008, routes 27, 28 and 29 ended. [48]

In 2009, another subsidy decrease occurred. Routes 4 and 5, some journeys on route 6, routes 14 and 16 were withdrawn. [49] In 2009, Southern Vectis staff went on strike for three days over pay. [50]

In 2017, Southern Vectis introduced a contactless payment system. [51] In 2021, Tap On Tap Off [52] began, a contactless ticket-free payment system enabling capped daily fares.

Fleet

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Alexander Dennis Enviro400 in Ryde in May 2016

As of December 2023, Southern Vectis operates a fleet of 83 buses. [53]

Livery

In April 2006, almost all Southern Vectis buses were painted in a new Best Impressions livery of two shades of green and a new logo and slogan, "the island's buses". [54] This was refreshed by Best Impressions in 2014 to incorporate a large green swoop towards the back of the vehicles, similar to the Vectis Blue livery. Before 2014, most open-top routes had blue and orange livery, with Island Breezers branding. This was revised in 2014, when the Needles Breezer received a blue, green and orange livery, reminiscent of Go South Coast's Purbeck Breezers. This livery extended to the rest of the Island Breezers fleet as the buses were replaced or repainted.

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