london&country
about us
London Country South West (LCSW) was a bus operator in South East England and London.
It was formed from the split of London Country Bus Services in 1986 and operated a fleet of around
415 buses from 10 garages, with its headquarters in Guildford.
IOn 19 February 1988, LCSW was sold to the Drawlane Group. In 1989 the London & Country trading
name was adopted, being applied to a new two-tone green and red livery.
Garages at the time were Crawley, Dorking, Guildford, Leatherhead, Staines, Reigate, Addlestone,
Chelsham and Godstone, as well as an outstation of Crawley at Broadbridge Heath.
In November 1992, the Drawlane Group was restructured as British Bus.
In 1996, with the demise of the National Greenway project, a new garage was opened at Merstham to replace the facility at Reigate.
Also the Croydon, Dunton Green and Walworth operations were separated off into a new Londonlinks company, which was itself a subsidiary of fellow British Bus company Maidstone & District. The garages returned to London & Country management in late 1998, and in November 1999 became part of Arriva London.
On 1 August 1996, British Bus was sold to the Cowie Group, which in November 1997 was rebranded as Arriva.
In 1999, Leatherhead bus garage closed and for a short time buses for London Regional Transport contract buses were out-stationed at Fulwell bus garage.
...continuation in model form
We have continued London&Country in scale 1:76.
Our Story
Since 2005, ComfortDelGro Australia (CDC) has grown steadily to be one of Australia’s largest bus operators, delivering best-in-class transport solutions to metro and rural communities across New South Wales, Victoria, the Northern Territory, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia.
CDC is a trusted and longstanding partner of government and business, moving over 60 million customers every year to where they want to go.
We aim to deliver best-in-class transport for today and we’re committed to improving and innovating best-in-class transport for tomorrow. CDC’s other businesses include non-emergency patient transport services, and an outdoor advertising company (Moove Media Australia), and today employs over 4,000 employees with a total national fleet of over 4,400 vehicles.
CDC’s parent company, ComfortDelGro which is headquartered in Singapore, also operates in the United Kingdom, China, Ireland, Vietnam and Malaysia. This worldwide experience means our global best practices combined with local expertise and insight will drive safer, more reliable, more effective, more sustainable and by design, more popular transport solutions.
Our Operations
CDC NSW is one of the largest private bus operators in New South Wales. We are proudly committed to be providing essential bus transport services to millions of passengers across NSW, linking people to places and building communities.
In NSW we own and operate multiple brands including Hillsbus, Forest Coach Lines, Blue Mountains Transit, CDC Travel, Coastal Liner, Hunter Valley Buses, Blanch’s Bus Lines, CDC Canberra as well as the MetroConnect and Woopi Connect On Demand Service.
In addition to reliable route and school services, we also provide rail replacement services as well as professional and competitive charter services for schools, charities, sporting clubs and other recreational groups.
Please REMEMBER, we are a fictional bus & coach company in scale 1:76 model form.
We are NOT a real company