mainline liveried wright eclipse bodied volvo b7rle parent transdev blazefield founded 1933 headquarters burnley service area burnley and pendle with services to manchester and north yorkshire service type bus services routes 31 october 2013 hubs burnley depots queensgate fleet 97 october 2013 website www.lancashirebus.co.uk transdev burnley & pendle 1 is a bus operator running services in the boroughs of burnley and pendle and into the surrounding areas including accrington keighley and manchester . it is a subsidiary of the transdev blazefield . contents 1 history 2 services 3 fleet 4 liveries 5 see also 6 references 7 further reading 8 external links history edit alexander rl bodied leyland olympian in burnley in june 2012 the witch way liveried wright eclipse gemini bodied volvo b7tl in manchester in march 2011 the burnley colne & nelson joint transport committee was established in 1933 to merge the three municipal tramway and bus operations of those towns . the tramway network was progressively being abandoned with the last closing in may 1935 . 2 in 1974 as part of the local government reorganisation colne and nelson boroughs were amalgamated to form pendle and thus the transport operation became the burnley & pendle joint transport committee . 3 to comply with the transport act 1985 in 1986 the assets were transferred to a new legal entity 4 and the operation rebranded burnley & pendle transport company . deregulation opened burnley & pendle s routes to competition from other operators with blackburn transport tyrer tours 5 and victoria coaches establishing competing services . to stave off the competition five aec routemasters were purchased with each named after a character from the television series eastenders . deregulation also saw many greater manchester passenger transport executive services contracted out . burnley & pendle successfully tendered a number of routes with their sphere of operation extending to blackburn bury manchester preston rawtenstall rochdale and skipton . 6 in april 1996 pendle council sold its share to stagecoach north west . burnley council was livid and stated strongly it would never sell its share . 7 stagecoach put up a multi million pound investment plan for burnley and pendle but burnley council could not meet its share unless it cut other council services . in march 1997 it reversed its policy and sold out to stagecoach . 6 initially branded stagecoach burnley & pendle in may 2000 it was incorporated into the stagecoach ribble business . in 1997 stagecoach purchased 10 volvo b10ms and 10 volvo olympians to upgrade the run down fleet . 8 in april 2001 stagecoach sold its east lancashire operations to the blazefield travel . soon after the business was split in two . what had been burnley & pendle once again became burnley & pendle 1 while the former ribble motor services became lancashire united . before the sale many of the newer buses were transferred to other stagecoach subsidiaries being replaced by dennis javelins leyland atlanteans and leyland lynxs . blazefield travel purchased 15 volvo b7tls and 25 volvo b10bles to commence a fleet renewal program . 9 in january 2006 burnley & pendle was included in the sale of blazefield travel to transdev . 10 11 burnley & pendle was rebranded as transdev in burnley & pendle . in january 2007 blackburn transport was purchased 12 followed in august 2007 by accrington transport and northern blue of burnley with 65 buses . 13 in september 2009 transdev northern blue was integrated into transdev burnley & pendle . services edit as at october 2013 transdev in burnley & pendle operate 31 routes . 14 the company operates bus services towards accrington bury clitheroe colne keighley manchester nelson padiham and rawtenstall from its burnley base . connections to preston are available from burnley & pendle s sister company lancashire united on service 152 . in 2004 the company introduced the high quality route the witch way which is separately marketed . since blazefield s acquisition of blackburn transport northern blue and accrington transport some routes formerly run by these companies have been taken over by burnley & pendle travel . these include several blackburn transport school services and all of northern blue s operations . fleet edit as at october 2013 the fleet consists of 97 buses . 15 liveries edit burnley & pendle s buses were originally painted in a red and cream livery although can now be seen in a wide variety of liveries . these include 16 burnley connect this new livery replaces the phased out starship branding providing local services in and around the rural side of burnley 17 the witch way black with red silver stripes and a distinctive silhouette of a pendle witch on each side each bus is named after a pendle witch with the 15th bus being named after the judge who sent many of them to the gallows 18 the mainline deep crimson and red with mainline branding eclipse driver training white with blue and yellow stripes see also edit list of bus operators of the united kingdom references edit a b companies house extract company no 1777430 burnley & pendle travel limited history of burnley colne & nelson jtc bcn society burnley & pendle joint transport commottee bcn society companies house extract company no 2004965 burnley & pendle transport company limited companies house extract company no 1458953 tyrer tours limited a b burnley & pendle transport co bcn society deal is struck with stagecoach . bolton news . 29 august 1996 . retrieved 3 june 2012 . stagecoach burnley & pendle bcn society burnley & pendle travel ltd a blazeley company bcn society transdev acquires blazefield group bus & coach professional 7 january 2006 a new stop for blazefield yorkshire post 9 january 2006 blackburn transport the end olive green & ivory blazefield buys again in lancashire bus & coach professional 9 august 2007 timetables transdev in burnley & pendle fleet list west yorkshire information page transdev burnley & pendle bcn society burnley connect homepage burnley connect homepage millar october 2005 . every witch way but colne in blazefield relaunch . buses 607 8 . further reading edit catlow a november 1985 . burnley colne and nelson . curwen institute . isbn 978 090794119 4 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to burnley & pendle bus company . company website v t e bus companies operating in north west england cheshire arriva north west d & g bus halton transport network warrington stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire cumbria mountain goat stagecoach cumbria & north lancashire greater manchester arriva north west bullocks coaches diamond bus north west first greater manchester jim stones coaches manchester community transport rosso stagecoach manchester & wigan stotts lancashire arriva north west blackburn bus company blackpool transport blue bus of penwortham john fishwick & sons pilkingtons buses preston bus preston park and ride rosso stagecoach cumbria & north lancashire stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire transdev in burnley & pendle merseyside arriva north west avon buses cumfybus htl buses stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire the green bus isle of man bus vannin national megabus national express v t e transdev uk bus divisions bus companies part of blazefield blackburn bus company harrogate bus company keighley bus company transdev in burnley & pendle transdev york yorkshire coastliner see also nottingham city transport 18 % shareholding v t e culture and infrastructure of the borough of pendle transport barnoldswick railway transdev in burnley & pendle colne and trawden light railway company east lancashire line leeds and bradford extension railway nelson corporation tramways the witch way railway stations brierfield colne nelson disused stations barnoldswick earby foulridge sport barnoldswick town f.c. colne cricket club colne dynamoes f.c. colne f.c. nelson cricket club nelson f.c. seedhill cricket ground media 2br barnoldswick and earby times craven herald & pioneer colne times lancashire telegraph nelson leader pendle community radio pendle express education colne park high school colne primet academy edge end high school mansfield high school marsden heights community college nelson and colne college pendle vale college ss john fisher and thomas more rc high school walton high school west craven high school history pendle witches companies esse stoves hope technology william roberts & co of nelson politics council council elections 1998 99 2000 02 03 04 06 07 08 10 11 12 14 15 west craven wards barrowford blacko and higherford boulsworth bradley brierfield clover hill coates old laund booth constituencies nelson and colne by elections 1968 pendle retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title transdev in burnley % 26 pendle & oldid 738745908 categories bus operators in lancashirecompanies established in 1933transdev group companiestransport in burnleytransport in pendle1933 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