Transpora Group

Transpora Group is a British public transport company, based in London, England. It primarily operates a mix of bus and coach services, as well as some taxi services.

History
Founded in August 2021, Transpora Group purchased Altonian Coaches of Eastleigh in February 2022. The company begun contracted work in September 2022 to cover for the services formerly ran by HCT Group in Bristol when it entered into administration. A month later in October, it announced at Showbus it was to begin running a heritage bus service in London using acquired AEC Routemasters on its new Route A between London Waterloo station and Piccadilly Circus under the Londoner Buses brand.

In December 2022, Transpora Group began running service 72 on behalf of the Lancashire County Council. It was originally run as service 20 under Blackpool Transport but was withdrawn citing low passenger numbers and financial losses. In March 2023, the company was awarded four school routes to a number of schools in Poole and Bournemouth, which commenced on 20 March 2023. Two months later, a tour service was launched in Bournemouth using a range of open and closed top buses (the latter of which were originally from the defunct Yellow Buses) under the Bournemouth Coaster brand. This tour service ran between Boscombe Pier and Hengistbury Head via Bournemouth Pier. These five services were cancelled with effect 23 August 2023.

In June 2023, Transpora Group announced they were running a new service connecting Newport, Wales and Bristol, England starting from 3 July 2023. The company was also awarded a park & ride contract in Weymouth to run between July and September 2023 where customers of the P&R site do not pay for parking and only pay for the bus fare.

In July 2024, Transpora abruptly ceased its operations in Bristol and Gloucestershire. The Big Lemon and Stagecoach West stepped in to take over some services.

Operations
Transpora Group operates bus services in the following locations below:


 * Blackpool (previously known as Coastliner buses)
 * Bristol
 * Newport
 * London