bodied scania l94ub in queen street in april 2013 parent 50 50 joint venture between dyson group and former proprietors of reservoir bus company commenced operation april 1998 ceased operation 3 august 2013 service area west and south eastern melbourne service type bus operator routes 9 hubs highpoint shopping centre stations brighton beach cheltenham footscray sandringham sunshine depots footscray sandringham fleet 86 august 2013 website www.melbbuslink.com.au melbourne bus link was an australian bus and coach operator in melbourne . as a melbourne bus company it operated nine bus routes under contract to the government of victoria . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit volgren bodied scania l94ub in flinders street in may 2013 in april 1998 a consortium owned by dyson group and reservoir bus company commenced operating a contract to operate the remaining bus services of met bus in the western and south east regions of melbourne . included were depots at footscray and sandringham and 86 man sl200 buses . 1 in april 2013 transdev melbourne were announced as the preferred tenderer to operate the melbourne metropolitan bus franchise . the franchise included the services operated by melbourne bus link . 2 3 melbourne bus link ceased operating on 3 august 2013 . fleet edit when operations ceased in august 2013 melbourne bus link operated 86 buses primarily volgren bodied scanias . 4 the fleet livery was white with purple and orange stripes . see also edit buses in melbourne list of victorian bus companies list of melbourne bus routes references edit historic reforms for melbourne s buses australian bus panorama 13 3 december 1997 page 35 preferred tenderer announced for the melbourne metropolitan bus franchise public transport victoria 26 april 2013 anger as french company lands bus contract the age 26 april 2013 melbourne bus link australian bus fleet lists external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to melbourne bus link . company website public transport victoria timetables showbus gallery retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title melbourne bus link & oldid 738247214 categories bus companies of victoria australia bus transport in melbourne1998 establishments in australia2013 disestablishments in australiahidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian englishcommons category with local link same as on wikidata 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 20 17 . 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