GHA Coaches
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 A new deebee branded Optare Solo M880 in Chester |
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| Slogan | A Service Second To None or Gwasanaeth heb ei ail |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Headquarters | Wrexham |
| Locale | Wrexham |
| Service area | Wales North West England |
| Service type | Bus & Coach |
| Routes | 70+ |
| Destinations | Several |
| Hubs | Tarvin, Wrexham, Corwen, Ruthin |
| Stations | Macclesfield |
| Fleet | 185+ |
| Web site | GHA Coaches Homepage |
GHA Coaches is a bus and coach operator serving North East Wales and surrounding areas in the United Kingdom. Their current total of bus operations has increased dramatically in recent years after purchases of other local bus operators such as Bryn Melyn, Chaloner's, Hanmers Coaches and Vale of Llangollen Travel, and are now quite possibly the main rival to Arriva Buses Wales in the area. As of April 2010 another based was established at Tarvin near (Chester) for increasing Cheshire contract gains. Ruabon is considered the main operating base for engineering and office functions.
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[edit] Bus operations
GHA presently operates more than seventy bus routes throughout Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Cheshire West & Chester, Cheshire East, Gwynedd and Shropshireusing the brands GHA Coaches, Connexxions, Connect, deebee, Linxx, Vale Rider, plus ones of its routes and those of owned companies: Bryn Melyn, Chaloner's, Hanmers and Vale Travel. Both GHA and Hanmer's operations use a livery of white, grey, red and burgundy, although more modern vehicles are known to use silver or gold instead of the traditional white. Those under Denbighshire's "Vale Rider" brand use the county's logo alongside various designs using red, black or green. Challoner's and Vale Travel buses are the exception using cream and blue colouring. Chaloner's with a thin black stripe running around the bottom of the bus, and Vale's with a dark blue stripe.
From September 2010 the deebee network saw a change with the new Blacon Pointer Quality Partnership. GHA have also received 2 more Optare Solo M880's to operate the services. They are in standard deebee livery.
[edit] Coach operations
Most of GHA's coach operations were inherited by the sale of Hanmer's coaches, although it has set up some in its own name in recent years. GHA hire out its coaches for various applications, however the most frequent use is school transport. The design of its coaches follow those of its bus operations.
[edit] Buses
GHA have an ever increasing fleet, always buying in bulk. Recent buys include Plaxton Centros, Optare Solos and Wright Eclipse Urbans.
GHA have had a number of demonstrators over the past year's, such as an Optare Versa, an Alexander Dennis Enviro300, and a Wrightbus Eclipse.
In August 2010 8 Optare Solos were bought to enhance the companies low floor fleet and to replace older step-entrance buses.
[edit] Fleet summary
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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