joe & tony calabro commenced operation june 1958 headquarters oakville service area city of hawkesbury service type bus charter operator alliance busabout sydney busabout wagga wagga depots 1 fleet 11 december 2014 website www.busabout.com.au hawkesburyvalley hawkesbury valley buses is an australian bus company operating bus charter services in western sydney . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 references 4 external links history edit hawkesbury valley was formed in june 1958 when bob kirkpatrick purchased the maraylya to windsor and riverstone services from nk lakeman fidler . in february 1984 the windsor to wisemans ferry service was purchased from r clarkson . in november 1990 hawkesbury valley was sold to joe and tony calabro . 1 the calabro family had sold their 70 vehicle bonnyrigg operation to westbus in june 1989 2 and subsequently purchased surfside buslines in october 1989 . 3 4 the calabros expanded their sydney presence purchasing neville s bus service in 1994 and liverpool transport co in 1997 . during 1994 95 hawkesbury valley operated a service between the international and domestic terminals at sydney airport for qantas . 5 since 2005 hawkesbury valley s services have formed part of sydney bus region 1 held in partnership with busways and westbus . on 6 october 2013 busways commenced operating region 1 services in its own right . this resulted in it taking over the services operated by hawkesbury valley . 6 7 it continues to trade as a bus charter operator . the transit australia group consists of queensland operations including surfside buslines which the calabro family has acquired . fleet edit as at december 2014 the fleet consisted of 11 buses . 8 until 1990 hawkesbury valley operated two austral tourmaster coaches . many of hawkesbury valley s buses have come from or gone to other calabro group companies . the fleet livery is blue and gold . references edit ownership changes fleetline issue 192 july 1991 page 118 calabro s sold fleetline issue 172 november 1989 page 176 stateliner takes over greyhound australian bus panorama issue 5 5 march 1990 page 23 surfside bus lines australian bus panorama issue 6 6 february 1991 page 45 hawkesbury valley fleetline issue 237 july 1995 page 135 cut costs or bus contracts will go to private sector minister tells drivers sydney morning herald 7 november 2012 busways win a 300 bus contract in western sydney busways 7 november 2012 busabout oakville australian bus fleet lists external links edit bus australia gallery retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hawkesbury valley buses & oldid 740873776 categories bus companies of new south walesbus transport in sydney1958 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 23 september 2016 at 21 39 . 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