Tiger Tours was an Australian coach charter company in

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. Until October 2011, Tiger Tours was known as Caringbah Bus Service, and operated route bus services in Sydney Bus Region 11, in

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History

The company started in 1942, when Keith Wood bought route 50, which operated between

Caringbah Caringbah is a suburb in Southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Caringbah is south of the Sydney central business district in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Sutherland Shire. Caringbah once st ...

and Miranda with diversions to

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as well. The Taren Point diversion was sold to Sutherland Bus Service in May 1955. The name Caringbah Bus Service was introduced later that year. In 1992, the company bought a portion of

South Western Coach Lines South Western Coach Lines was an Australian bus company operating services in the Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, South West and Sutherland Shire regions of Sydney. Background In the late 1950s, Max Holman operated Seven Hills Bus Lines with WA ...

' route 114 (Miranda – Caringbah) and merged it with its route 50. In 1993, route 50 was reorganised as: *977: Miranda – Caringbah – Lilli Pilli via Willarong Road and Crescent Road *978: Miranda – Caringbah – Port Hacking via Gannons Point and Dolans Bay These services operated from Miranda to

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, Dolans Bay and Lilli Pilli via Caringbah station, and school services in the area. In 2009 they were changed so that route 977 no longer operated via Willarong Road and Crescent Road but operated direct via Port Hacking Road. Willarong Road and Crescent Road were then covered by route 978. When the Sydney Metropolitan Bus System Contracts were established in 2005, the operation area of Caringbah Bus Service belonged to part of region 11, which was shared with

Crowthers Crowthers is an Australian coach charter coach company in Sydney. Until January 2009 it operated route bus services in the Sutherland Shire. History In the early 1900s, S Crowthers and Sons Pty Ltd established a small bus service in Thirroul, N ...

and Maianbar Bundeena Bus Service. Crowthers was sold to Veolia Transport NSW in 2009. When the Crowther routes were merged into Veolia routes 21 September 2009 region 11 was merged into region 10. In October 2011, the route bus services of 977 and 978 were sold to Veolia Transport NSW with nine buses. Caringbah Bus Service had long operated a coach charter business under the Tiger Tours banner and this business continued with 11 vehicles. On 1 May 2015, the business was purchased by Dunn Motor Traction and has since been fully merged into the Telford Tours operation. In November 2019 the business was included in the sale to the

Kinetic Group Kinetic Group (formerly known as AATS Group) is an Australian-based multinational bus company that wholly owns a number of bus operations in Australia and New Zealand, including the SkyBus business, which operates bus services to a number of a ...

.Telford's sold to Skybus Kinetic Group
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External links

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