Wed, 10 Oct 2012 | ADMINISTRATION
School bus company Countryliner has entered administration after Surrey County Council (SCC) terminated the firm's contracts.
Countryliner entered administration on Monday evening (8 October), leaving the council scrabbling for alternative operators to serve the local schools for the rest of the week.
Surrey Council has found new operators for ten of its routes, while East Sussex Council, has seen 13 of its schools and colleges affected and will need to track down new bus services.
SCC has assured young people and their families that school bus passes and season tickets that have been purchased from Countryliner will be accepted on the new operators until their expiry, presumably with the council providing the funds.
Calls to Countryliner's offices are not being answered but a SCC spokesman commented: “We regret the disruption to bus services that this will cause. Children should be able to get to school as normal but expect delays.”
Countryliner can be traced back to 1911 through various mergers between different transport companies in the region. However, the company itself was not formerly established until 1992, when Green Line's private hire department was dubbed Countryliner. By 1998, the business had been sold off as Countryliner Coach Hire Ltd to form a company of its own.
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