castle hill bus interchange in july 2013 parent comfortdelgro 51 % cabcharge 49 % founded 2005 service area hills district hunter region blue mountains melbourne geelong ballarat canberra queanbeyan yass service type bus services operator blue mountains transit cdc ballarat cdc geelong cdc melbourne charterplus hillsbus hunter valley buses qcity transit transborder express westbus uk chief executive jim glasson website www.cdcbus.com.au nsw www.cdcvictoria.com.au victoria comfortdelgro cabcharge cdc is a major australian operator of commuter buses . it is the second largest commuter bus operator in new south wales and the third largest commuter bus operator in victoria . the company was founded in october 2005 as a joint venture between singapore based comfortdelgro 51 % and cabcharge australia ltd 49 % . cdc operates services as part of the new south wales metropolitan bus system under the hillsbus hunter valley buses and blue mountains transit brands . in regional new south wales queanbeyan and yass cdc operates under the qcity transit and transborder express brands . in victoria cdc operates cdc ballarat cdc geelong and cdc melbourne . cdc also has operations outside of australia . in the united kingdom cdc owns and operates as cityfleet which operates coach services in london under the westbus banner and taxi services in a number of cities . 1 contents 1 history 2 australian operations 2.1 westbus 2.1.1 network 2.1.2 fleet 2.2 hillsbus 2.2.1 network 2.2.2 fleet 2.3 hunter valley buses 2.3.1 fleet 2.4 charterplus 2.5 fleet 2.6 blue mountains transit 2.7 cdc victoria 2.8 deane s transit group 2.8.1 fleet 3 united kingdom 3.1 westbus uk 3.2 taxi services 4 references 5 external links history edit the joint venture was established in october 2005 to purchase loss making westbus australia & uk hillsbus and hunter valley buses from national express and the bosnjak family . 2 the company traces its origins to 1955 when the bosnjak family established a bus company in edensor park . in august 2006 the routes of baxter s bus lines were purchased by and absorbed into westbus operations . 3 4 morisset bus service sugar valley coachlines and toronto bus service were purchased in august 2007 and absorbed into hunter valley buses . 5 in june 2008 a bus charter division was established under the charter plus name . kefford corporation in victoria was purchased in november 2008 . 6 the group was renamed cdc victoria but the names of the bus companies within the group were retained . the cdc brand was rolled out in 2014 . in september 2012 deane s transit group comprising deane s buslines renamed as qcity transit and transborder express in southern new south wales were purchased . 7 8 in august 2014 cdc purchased blue mountains bus company which was subsequently renamed blue mountains transit in december 2014 . australian operations edit westbus edit westbus was established in 1955 by the bosnjak family . trading as bosnjak s bus service it operated a fleet of five buses on a route connecting the sydney suburbs of canley vale and edensor park . bosnjak s purchased a number of bus companies 9 1963 parramatta bus co april 1974 wj bale & sons penrith november 1976 fairlines bus service fairfield 1981 cleary brothers in 1981 october 1983 bowman s bus lines st marys 1987 route 715 from toongabbie transport december 1987 macquarie towns coach lines windsor 10 december 1988 the rest of toongabbie transport 11 june 1989 calabro s bonnyrigg 12 january 1994 richardson s bus & coach service richmond 13 all companies began to trade as westbus in october 1984 . 14 in 1985 the coach business of rowe s was purchased . a fleet of volvo b10m coaches were purchased and based at northmead . following the purchase of calabro s in june 1989 both fleets moved to alexandria and later arncliffe . the operation ceased in the early 2000s . in 1986 westbus purchased a small luxury coach service in the london . 15 this was later acquired by armchair passenger transport who were in turn purchased in 2005 by comfortdelgro . 16 in may 1999 british coach operator national express took a 57 % shareholding in westbus as part of its purchase of national bus company . 17 members of the founding bosnjak family continued to hold the remaining shares . in december 2004 westbus northmead and seven hills operations were merged with those of the newly acquired glenorie bus company under the hillsbus brand . with debts of 90 million and national express unwilling to provide further funding in january 2005 the company was placed into voluntary administration . westbus s problems threatened a major disruption to sydney s transport network the company ranked second only to government owned sydney buses in the commuter bus industry . the company was acquired by comfortdelgro cabcharge in october 2005 . the new owners pledged to honour the company s contractual obligations to customers and staff . 18 the change of ownership saw the company exchange one politically well connected shareholder the bosnjak family 19 for another cabcharge s reg kermode . in august 2006 the routes of baxter s bus lines were purchased by and absorbed into westbus region 3 operations . 3 4 also included in the sale were baxter s girraween depot and some of its bus fleet . from 2005 westbus services were part of sydney bus regions 1 and 3 . 20 21 in 2012 these regions were put out to tender by transport for new south wales . westbus bids to retain both regions were not successful with the region 1 services operating out of st marys and windsor passing to busways while the region 3 services operated by bonnyrigg and girraween passing to transit systems sydney both in october 2013 . 22 23 24 network edit westbus operated services as of 2013 in the following areas bus routes 668 to 682 in sydney s north western suburbs windsor richmond kurrajong bus routes 759 770 to 799 in sydney s western suburbs penrith st marys bus routes 802 to 818 in sydney s south western suburbs parramatta merrylands liverpool with routes 802 & 803 jointly operated with hopkinsons free penrith shuttle bus route 787 from march 2011 to august 2013 free cabramatta shuttle bus route 88 from march 2011 to august 2013 jointly operated with metro link bus lines westbus operated these services prior to their rebranding to hillsbus in december 2004 bus routes 600 to 618 in sydney s north western suburbs including express services along the m2 hills motorway to railway square red arrow route 630 from blacktown to macquarie centre . jointly operated with harris park transport until december 2004 bus routes 700 to 718 in sydney s western suburbs wentworthville seven hills blacktown fleet edit a long time bedford and leyland buyer after briefly manufacturing its own bosnjak jbj chassis in the late 1970s westbus moved to the volvo b10m purchasing over 160 as buses and 12 as coaches in the 1980s . 12 it later purchased mercedes benz o405 and scanias . as at may 2013 westbus operated 289 buses across four depots in bonnyrigg and girraween for region 3 and st marys and windsor for region 1 . 3 upon formation in 1983 westbus adopted a cream and red livery which was adopted by national bus company in 1993 . this was simplified in the early 2000s to plain yellow . in 2010 the transport for new south wales white and blue livery began to be applied in line with contractual obligations . hillsbus edit hillsbus custom coaches bodied mercedes benz o405 mk ii on clarence street sydney cbd painted in westbus cream & red in october 2007 hillsbus volgren bodied scania k230ub at castle hill bus interchange in july 2013 bustech cdi double decker in transport for new south wales livery at castle hill interchange metrobus liveried hillsbus volgren cr228l bodied volvo b7rle at castle hill bus interchange in july 2013 in 1996 westbus established a separate hillsbus brand to run express services from the hills district to the sydney cbd and north sydney initially via the anzac bridge and from 1997 via the m2 hills motorway . 25 however the hillsbus brand seemed to have disappeared by the 2000s as these services were classified as westbus rather than hillsbus in early versions of the westbus website . 26 these westbus services however are still referred to by westbus as hills city express . 27 on 11 february 2002 hillsbus was recreated as a joint venture between westbus and national express newly acquired glenorie bus company and introduced a new bus route 642 under the hillsbus brand . 28 this service linked dural and the city via the m2 and was therefore known as a m2 city express service . on 8 july the same year hillsbus introduced three more m2 city routes 650 652 and 654 . 29 30 according to the hillsbus timetables these hillsbus services were operated by glenorie 31 even though neither westbus nor glenorie buses were used . 29 32 in december 2004 all westbus routes operating out of northmead and seven hills depots as well as the rest of glenorie bus company were rebranded hillsbus . 33 at the same time hillsbus took over the operation of harris park transport routes 620 630 following the latter ceasing operation . the services were transferred from hillsbus to sydney buses on 28 january 2005 . 34 on 25 september 2005 after the purchase of hillsbus by comfortdelgro cabcharge routes 620 625 626 627 and 630 were transferred back to hillsbus . 35 despite the rebranding to hillsbus the new hillsbus website was only launched in january 2006 about a year after the rebranding . 36 the delay could be related to the debt of westbus and was only resolved after the sale of westbus and hillsbus to cdc . after the launch of the new website it still did not show any timetables of the former glenorie operated timetables until may june 2006 and during this period customers were asked to check the glenorie website instead . 37 when the parramatta rouse hill section of the north west t way opened on 10 march 2007 routes 730 renumbered t63 and 735 renumbered 616 now 616x were transferred from busways to hillsbus with route 718 transferred from hillsbus to busways . 38 since 2005 hillsbus services have formed sydney bus region 4 . 39 in august 2013 hillsbus successfully tendered to operate the region 4 services for another five years from august 2014 . 40 41 on 30 june 2014 the opal card was rolled out on all of hillsbus nightride and region 4 routes including school services . 42 43 network edit hillsbus operates the following services m6x series metrobus routes m60 from hornsby to parramatta m61 from castle hill to railway square t way routes t60 to t66 along the north west t way in sydney s north western suburbs parramatta westmead rouse hill bus routes 600 to 653 in sydney s north western suburbs including 60x series along the north west t way express services along the m2 hills motorway and lane cove tunnel to macquarie park north sydney and railway square bus routes 700 to 715 in sydney s western suburbs wentworthville seven hills blacktown fleet edit as at november 2014 hillsbus operated 549 buses across four depots seven hills foundry road seven hills dural and northmead . 3 upon formation hillsbus adopted westbus cream and red livery . this was simplified in the early 2000s to plain yellow . in 2010 the transport for new south wales white and blue livery began to be applied . hunter valley buses edit hunter valley buses provides commuter bus school bus coach and charter services in the hunter region of new south wales . the group s origins can be traced back to 1926 when amos fogg founded the operation . having taken