The section of the short Poath Rd route between what was to become Chadstone to North Rd route dates from September 1935 with the gazetting of route 88A – East Malvern Station to North Road. The first operators were Lawrence…
Whitehorse Bus Service
A motor cab service began in 1926, acting as a feeder route to both the Mont Albert tram and the train at Box Hill, operating along Whitehorse Rd between the two. These 7-seater cabs were run by Sydney James Smith…
Tullamarine Bus Lines
Nikos (Nicholas) Sikavitsas was born in the village of Argos Orestikon, Kastoria on 1 January 1937 to Christos Sikavitasa and Anastasia Spyropoulos. He was the first born of three brothers (one of whom died very young) and two sisters. After…
Kastoria Bus Lines
Kastoria is a town in northern Greece, the capital city of a region also called Kastoria. The city (currently) has a population of just 37,000 making it smaller in size that the City of Moonee Valley which has about 115,000…
Hampton Green Bus Lines
Route 36A started in 1925 as Hampton Station to Linacre Street via Thomas Street (Lower Hampton) with one bus. It was started by Wilfred (Bill) Gerald Hutchinson with a T model Ford bus. In 1934, it was extended south to…
Calderwood Coaches
Thomas Lang (Tom) Calderwood (born 1907) arrived from the UK with his mother (Rosina) and sister (Sarah) in January 1927. His brother John (born 1900) had arrived one year earlier. Previously, the family had lived in Tarbert, Loch Fyne in…
Fleurie
From the early 1900s, the Melbourne City Council (MCC) licensed passenger vehicles through its Hackney Carriage Vehicle Committee, both horse drawn and motorised. For motor vehicles, the various categories depended on the number of passengers the vehicles could carry. Those…
Canterbury – Richmond Bus Service
Around 6.40pm on Friday 19th December 1969, owner-driver Phil Venier pulled his bus into the Canterbury terminus to cease operation for the day — and forever. Thus, the colourful history of one of Melbourne’s bus routes (Route 129A: Canterbury —…
Curren’s Buslines
Raymond Curren ran various feeder bus routes in Melbourne’s inner north and inner east from 1956 until his untimely death in November 1968. His estate then continued to operate Route 136A between Camberwell & Box Hill until the end of…
Seymour Passenger Service
(includes notes provided by Stuart Locke, CEO of SPS) When World War Two broke out, David Reid (Reid’s Bus Service) and several other Melbourne operators perceived a business opportunity at Seymour, providing transport for troops between the railway station and…