14.220 in reading in may 2008 . parent go ahead group founded april 1998 headquarters wallingford service area south oxfordshire berkshire service type bus services destinations oxford abingdon bicester didcot reading wallingford & wantage fleet 47 may 2015 website www.thames travel.co.uk thames travel 1 is a bus operator based in wallingford oxfordshire england . it is a subsidiary of the go ahead group . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 depots 4 notable incidents 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit mercedes benz o530 citaro in september 2012 alexander dennis enviro200 dart in bracknell in june 2010 optare solo in bracknell in june 2010 thames travel was founded on 14 april 1998 by john wright with four buses . it expanded by winning new contracts in oxfordshire and berkshire and taking over work from operators that have ceased trading such as chiltern queens of woodcote and tillingbourne bus company on 19 march 2001 . 2 thames travel has also benefited from operators including first berkshire & the thames valley reading buses and stagecoach in oxfordshire giving up commercial work . however in recent years smaller competitors including heyfordian rh transport weavaway travel and whites coaches have won work that thames travel had operated . in may 2011 thames travel was purchased by go ahead group . 3 4 fleet edit as of may 2015 the fleet consisted of 52 buses . 5 the fleet is numbered in the oxford bus company series . 6 the main fleet is made up of ex oxford bus company mercedes benz citaros along with a number of optare solos and newer solo srs for use on the bicester operation . depots edit depots are located in wallingford and oxford with outstations in launton wantage and reading . notable incidents edit thames travel vehicles have been involved in three major accidents widely reported in the local media . all happened on the a4074 road locally known as the 13 bends of death . in the first accident on july 21 2006 a 26 year old woman was killed after colliding head on with a thames travel mcv evolution bodied dennis dart slf number 155 in plain white livery . it was found that she did this to avoid a collision with two cars coming towards her who had been recklessly overtaking numerous other cars before the accident . as a result of the collision both vehicles caught fire and were completely destroyed . the bus was replaced with the next intake of new vehicles . 7 the two brothers arrested after the incident were charged and jailed for a total of 15 years for the accident . 8 the second accident on 28 january 2008 involved an mcv evolution bodied man 14.220 number 256 . it collided in fog with a land rover that was turning off the road across the bus s path . the land rover landed on its side ; the bus in a ditch . the accident happened on the a4074 at its junction with the b4526 road . five people were injured . 9 the third on 14 october 2014 involved a mercedes citaro number 853 . a van collided with the thames travel bus travelling along the a4074 leaving the bus driver and a passenger injured . 10 see also edit list of bus companies in the united kingdom references edit companies house extract company no 4184436 thames travel wallingford limited bus zone tillingbourne bus zone no changes at thames travel says outgoing boss oxford mail 29 may 2011 go ahead buys 35 vehicle thames travel busandcoach.com 8 june 2011 thames travel fleetlist buszone thames travel oxford & chilterns bus page 28 march 2012 reading evening post i beg you to help police accessed 5 june 2008 . reading evening post jailed over death of bride to be accessed 5 june 2008 . reading evening post five hurt in bus crash accessed 5 june 2008 . bbc news bus crash on a4074 in oxfordshire leaves four injured accessed 8 december 2014 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to thames travel . company website showbus gallery v t e go ahead group united kingdom bus companies anglian bus brighton & hove carousel buses go ahead london blue triangle docklands buses london central london general go north east go south coast bluestar marchwood motorways uni link damory coaches southern vectis wilts & dorset more salisbury reds tourist group hedingham chambers konectbus metrobus oxford bus company plymouth citybus thames travel singapore bus companies go ahead singapore united kingdom railway companies as govia govia thameslink railway including gatwick express great northern southern thameslink london midland southeastern defunct uk operations aviance uk east thames buses meteor parking solent blue line thames trains thameslink govia v t e bus operators in south east england berkshire arriva shires & essex bath bus company courtney buses first berkshire & the thames valley fleet buzz reading buses stagecoach in hampshire thamesdown transport thames travel the green bus white bus services wilts & dorset buckinghamshire arriva shires & essex carousel buses first berkshire & the thames valley stagecoach east east sussex arriva southern counties bath bus company brighton & hove compass travel cuckmere buses metrobus renown coaches southdown psv stagecoach south east stagecoach in hastings stagecoach in eastbourne the sussex bus hampshire amk group bluestar damory first hampshire & dorset fleet buzz reading buses stagecoach south stagecoach in hampshire stagecoach in hants & surrey stagecoach in portsmouth stagecoach in the south downs uni link wilts & dorset xelabus isle of wight southern vectis island breezers kent arriva southern counties chalkwell coaches the kings ferry metrobus nu venture stagecoach south east stagecoach in east kent sullivan buses southdown psv oxfordshire arriva shires & essex oxford bus company reading buses stagecoach oxfordshire oxford tube thamesdown transport thames travel surrey abellio surrey arriva guildford & west surrey arriva london atbus compass travel countywide travel epsom coaches quality line first berkshire & the thames valley fleet buzz london general metrobus safeguard coaches southdown psv stagecoach south stagecoach in hampshire stagecoach in hants & surrey sullivan buses the green bus transdev london west sussex arriva southern counties arriva guildford & west surrey new enterprise coaches brighton & hove compass travel tellings golden miller minerva accord metrobus southdown psv stagecoach south stagecoach in hampshire stagecoach in hants & surrey the big lemon the sussex bus national megabus national express retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thames travel & oldid 735231645 categories companies established in 1998bus operators in berkshirebus operators in oxfordshire1998 establishments in englandhidden categories commons 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 19 august 2016 at 11 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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