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Merseybus had introduced in 1990, now also valid on Fareway services. From late 1993, however, MTL began to exert more influence over the Fareway operation, replacing time-expired Fareway buses with newer second-hand buses from the MTL fleet and beginning to operate Fareway as a
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and charged significantly lower fares than
Merseybus, who had withdrawn services in North Liverpool and Kirkby. The F1 quickly gained 30-minute evening and Sunday operation as a result of high passenger demand, and over the next 18 months, Fareway's operations expanded rapidly; by the end of 1989,
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Merseybus, North Western and Liverline, Fareway would successfully maintain its network of services in Kirkby and North Liverpool for the next few years while also establishing a coach excursion and private hire division, gaining a public
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Passenger Services was Merseyside's first major newcomer to bus operation in the post-deregulation period. The company was established by four former Merseyside Transport bus drivers who remortgaged their homes and used the redundancy payments they received when laid off from their former
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Garston Village area of south Liverpool, from which the 'Village' name was derived. Around 1992, Village entered Liverpool's 'bus war' on a large scale by beginning extensive Monday - Saturday daytime operations on two routes
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Being located at least 40–50 miles away from MTL's core operations on
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in April 1995 against the advice of trade unions. MTL reconsidered its position, with revised pay offers across the company resulting in one-day strikes and overtime bans at other MTL divisions, and eventually brought MerseyRider's terms and conditions in line with those of Merseybus. This soon
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with Liverbus, however in 1995, the company began competing with Liverbus by completely duplicating its entire network. By April 1995, it was announced that MTL had acquired Gemsam Holdings in an over £2 million deal, which included the operations of Liverbus and Coach 2000.
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Fareway had become the biggest independent bus operator on Merseyside, operating a core network of seven high-frequency F-prefixed commercial services on the major bus corridors linking Kirkby and North Liverpool to Liverpool city centre, as well as ten Merseytravel contracts.
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bodied Leyland Atlanteans and a number of hired minibuses, which were painted in a cream and green livery. In May 1994, MTL acquired former Merseyside Transport driver David Forrest's independent operator Blue Triangle, merging it into the MerseyRider operation.
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low-cost subsidiary of their core bus network in competition with other operators. In summer 1995, the company was rebranded MTL Fareway, with MTL's red and cream corporate livery adopted across the fleet. Despite an investment in a batch of 10 new
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Arriva in 2000, who after a route revision in the spring of 2000, withdrew many of the former Liverbus routes. Arriva closed down Huyton depot in June 2006 as it was too small and transferred operations to Green Lane depot in Old Swan.
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1735:Bluebird Bus & Coach
1461:"MTL buys Village Group"
722:Arriva Trains Merseyside
297:and in Eastbank Street,
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2095:South Notts Bus Company
2060:Glossopdale Bus Company
1927:Busways Travel Services
1880:Yelloway Motor Services
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1149:"Bus drivers to strike"
878:"Their road to success"
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629:University of Liverpool
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2007:Yorkshire Terrier
1987:Venture Transport
1957:OK Motor Services
1932:Cleveland Transit
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