sunbus parent transit australia group founded 1995 headquarters smithfield service area cairns service type bus operator routes 16 hubs cairns city palm cove smithfield shopping centre stockland cairns westcourt depots 1 fleet 51 june 2013 website www.sunbus.com.au sunbus is the principal bus operator in cairns queensland operating services under the translink south east queensland scheme in the cairns region . contents 1 history 2 service area 3 fleet 4 see also 5 external links 6 references history edit in 1995 harry blundred the proprietor of thames transit in the united kingdom was awarded the operating rights to route services in cairns by the government of queensland . 1 it initially was a joint venture with beach bus and west cairns bus service but blundred took full control shortly after . 2 as part of the deal sunbus was also responsible for the operation of school bus services in the region however these were sold in 1997 to fellow british bus operator stagecoach . 3 4 in april 2008 blundred sold marlin coast sunbus along with the other sunbus operations to transit australia group . service area edit sunbus operates from palm cove and trinity beach in the north and as far south as gordonvale and edmonton . the area with the most coverage is along the captain cook highway between smithfield shopping centre and cairns cbd . fleet edit as at june 2013 the fleet consisted of 51 buses primarily bustech bodied volvo b12bles bustech mdi and xdis . 5 fleet livery is light blue . see also edit translink south east queensland external links edit showbus gallery references edit private operators fleetline july 1995 page 130 transit australia australian bus panorama issue 11 7 april 1996 page 48 private operators australian bus panorama issue 13 1 august 1997 page 22 buslink australian bus fleet lists sunbus cairns australian bus fleet lists retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title marlin coast sunbus & oldid 740931149 categories bus companies of queenslandcairns1995 establishments in australiahidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 september 2016 at 07 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view