Sunliner Express

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Sunliner Express
ParentLance Francis
Graham Leishman
Neil Smith
Founded1986
Ceased operationFebruary 1991
Headquarters Manly
Service typeCoach services
Alliance Bayside Bus Lines
Landmark Tours
Peninsula Bus Lines
Destinations Brisbane
Cairns
Melbourne
Sydney

Sunliner Express was an Australian interstate coach operator.

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History

Sunliner Express was formed in 1986 when the Brisbane to Cairns licence of VIP Express was purchased. [1] [2] Sunliner was owned by current Transit Systems proprietors Lance Francis, Graham Leishman and Neil Smith who owned the Peninsula Bus Lines operation on the New South Wales Central Coast, Chalmers Coaches, Sydney and in 1985 purchased Bayside Bus Lines, Brisbane.

In 1988 Melbourne to Brisbane via Dubbo and Melbourne to Sydney services were introduced in partnership with Melbourne operator Landmark Tours. [2] [3] [4] In March 1989 Sunliner took over operation of these services. [5] In 1990 these services ceased. [6]

Sunliner also operated day tours in Sydney and Brisbane under the Boomerang Tours name. In October 1989 a Sunliner Express Scania was involved in the Grafton bus crash with 21 people killed and 22 injured on the Pacific Highway near Grafton. At the time, this crash was the worst in Australian road transport history in terms of number of deaths. In February 1991 Sunliner Express was placed in liquidation. [7]

Fleet

Sunliner acquired eight Denning Denair and two Austral Tourmaster coaches acquired from VIP Express. [2] These were replaced by a fleet of Austral, Custom Coaches and Pressed Metal Corporation South Australia bodied Scania K112TR and K113TRs. [1] Sunliner's livery was a silver and two blue livery with a round sunset emblem with a silhouette of a palm tree and a white sea bird emblazoned within it.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sunliner Express - The High Deck Legacy" Australian Bus Panorama 9/2 September 1993 page 7
  2. 1 2 3 "Sunliner Express" Fleetline March 1988 page 63
  3. ↑ "Sunliner Express" Fleetline June 1988 page 149
  4. ↑ "Victorian Buses in the Eighties" Australian Bus Panorama 7/1 August 1991 page 3
  5. ↑ "Sunliner Express" Australian Bus Panorama 4/6 May 1989 page 31
  6. ↑ "Express Coach Companies in Major Rationalisation" Australian Bus Panorama October 1990 page 18
  7. ↑ "Bayside-Sunliner Collapse" Australian Bus Panorama 6/8 May 1991 page 15
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