Australia Wide Coaches is an Australian coach company operating charter services, an express service between Orange and

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and services in Central West New South Wales under contract to

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History

Australia Wide Coaches was founded by Richard Dawes and Phil Langley in 1993 in Dubbo."Australia Wide Coaches" ''Fleetline'' October 1993 page 218 In October 2009, the coach operations of Selwoods Coaches, Orange were purchased. Selwoods had been operating a service from Orange to

since April 1989. Since June 1990, Selwoods had been operating services under contract to

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from Lithgow to Orange, Grenfell and Parkes.Australia Wide Coaches
Australian Bus Fleet Lists Both of these remain in operation today. In November 2013, Australia Wide Coaches commenced operating Gray Line services in Sydney under licence to the Driver Group. On 2 September 2014, a service commenced operating between Orange and

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.Canberra timetable
Australia Wide Coaches This has since ceased. In February 2016, the office and depot relocated from

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Fleet

As at February 2015, the fleet consisted of 16 coaches. It commenced operations with an Austral Tourmaster before gradually expanding with

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coaches.

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* {{Regional NSW public transport, state=collapsed Bus companies of New South Wales CountryLink Gray Line Worldwide NSW TrainLink Transport companies established in 1993 1993 establishments in Australia