Routes

Bus route history 1894-2010

For Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co., Bristol Omnibus Co. and their subsidiaries and successors

We're gradually including details of Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co and Bristol Omnibus Company's routes through history.

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Details are from mainly from our archive of timetables, which is incomplete, along with help from Carl Berry and James Bunting. If you have old timetables of the company's services and you would be willing to donate them to us (or lend them to us temporarily) to help us to complete our archive that would be fantastic: please contact webmaster@bvbg.org.uk

Year	Areas currently included	See also
1894	Cheltenham horse-buses
1911	Bristol City Trams and Charabancs, and Bristol Charabanc Tours	Tram Map
1922	Bristol area
1927	Cheltenham
1928	Country area	Route map (small) Route map (large, 4mb)
1929	Country area
1933	Cheltenham	Route map (all) (small) Route map (all) (large, 4mb)
1936	Cheltenham and Gloucester country area	Coach tours map
1939	All areas except Bath Tramways routes and Cheltenham Town
1941	Cheltenham
1946	All areas	Route map (Cheltenham)
1948	All areas except Cheltenham Town	Route map (all) Route map (Bristol city)
1949	All areas except Cheltenham Town
1950	All areas except Cheltenham Town	Route map (Bristol city)
1951	All areas	Route map (small) Route map (large, 4mb)
1953	All areas except Bristol City
1955	Bristol City, Bath City, Chippenham, Stroud	Bath faretable Stroud faretable Route map (Bristol City)
1956	Cheltenham
1957	Bristol City, country area and Cheltenham
1958	All areas
1959	Bristol City, Country area, Cheltenham Town and Weston-Super-Mare town	Stroud faretable Swindon faretable Route map (Bristol city)
1960		Route map (Bristol city)
1961	Bristol City, Country area, Bath City, Cheltenham Town	Swindon faretable Route map (Bath city)
1962	All areas except Bath City	Stroud faretable Route map (Bristol city)
1963	All areas	Route map (Bath city) Route map (Bath city centre) Route map (Gloucester city) Route map (Cheltenham town) Swindon faretable
1964	All areas	Route map (Bristol city) Route map (Cheltenham town) Bath area faretable
1965	Country area	Route map (Bristol city)
1966	Country area, Bath City and Cheltenham town	Bath area faretable Swindon area faretable Route map (Cheltenham town)
1967	All areas except Gloucester City	Route map (Cheltenham town) Route map (Bath city) Stroud faretable
1968	All areas
1969	All areas	City Centre Circle map Hanham area map Norton Radstock area map Portishead & Clevedon area map
1970	All areas
1971	All areas
1972	All areas	Chippenham & Trowbridge map Weston town map Route map (Cheltenham town)
1973	All areas
1974	Bristol City and country, Bath, Weston-Super-Mare and Wells
1975	All areas
1976	All areas	Swindon local map
1977	Bristol city, Bath and Weston-Super-Mare, Gloucestershire
1978	All areas
1979	All areas
1980	Bath, Weston-Super-Mare and Gloucestershire	Route map
1981	Bristol, Gloucestershire and Weston-Super-Mare
1982	All areas except Wiltshire
1983	All areas except Gloucester
1984	Bristol City and country, Bath, Cirencester and Tetbury	Cirencester route map Area route map
1985	Bath, Weston-Super-Mare and Wells
1986	Bristol City and Thornbury
1987	Bristol City and Bridgwater
1988	Bristol City, Shepton Mallet and Wells
1989	Bristol City
1990	Bristol City
1991	Bristol City
1992	Bristol City
1993	Bristol City
1994	Bristol City, Bath and Wansdyke, Portishead
1995	Bath, Wells, Frome, Midsomer Norton, Wiltshire, Portishead and Clevedon
1996	Bristol City, Bath & North-East Somerset, Weston-Super-Mare & North Somerset, Wells
1997	Bristol City, Bath & North-East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Weston-Super-Mare & North Somerset, West Wiltshire
1998	Bristol City, Bath & North-East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Cotswold, Mendip
1999	Bristol City, South Gloucestershire, Bath & North-East Somerset, Mendip
2000	Bristol City, South Gloucestershire, Bath & North-East Somerset, Bridgwater, Mendip
2001	Bristol City, South Gloucestershire, Bath & North-East Somerset, Bridgwater
2002	Bath & North-East Somerset
2003	South Gloucestershire, Bath & North-East Somerset, Chippenham West, Corsham
2004	Bath & North-East Somerset, West Wiltshire, Calne, Malmesbury, Sedgemoor
2005	Bath & North-East Somerset, Sedgemoor
2006	Bath & North-East Somerset, Sedgemoor
2007	Sedgemoor
2009	Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
2010	All areas