* Stagecoach Devon-Stagecoach controls operations in Devon through Stagecoach Devon, consisting of ( as of May 2003 ) Stagecoach Devon Limited.

Stagecoach controls operations in the East through Stagecoach East.

* Stagecoach East Midlands-Stagecoach controls operations in the East Midlands area through Stagecoach East Midlands.

* Stagecoach East Scotland-Stagecoach controls operations in the east of Scotland through Stagecoach East Scotland, comprising Fife Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, AA Buses Ltd, Bluebird Buses Ltd, JW Coaches Ltd, Rennie's of Dunfermline Ltd, Stagecoach Scotland Ltd and Strathtay Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. Trading names include Stagecoach in Perth, Stagecoach Bluebird, Stagecoach in Fife and Strathtay.

* Stagecoach North East-Stagecoach controls operations in the north east of England through Stagecoach North East, comprising Busways Travel Services Ltd and Cleveland Transit Ltd. Trading names include Stagecoach on Teesside, Stagecoach in Hartlepool, Stagecoach in Newcastle, Stagecoach in South Shields and Stagecoach in Sunderland.

* Stagecoach North West-Stagecoach controls most operations in the north west of England through Stagecoach North West, comprising Cumberland Motor Services Ltd and Ribble Motor Services Ltd. Trading names include Stagecoach in Cumbria, Stagecoach in Lancaster and Stagecoach in Lancashire.

In 1995 the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising awarded the South West Trains franchise to Stagecoach ( legal name South West Trains Limited, company no 2938995 ) with operations commencing on 4 February 1996.

Ticketing is integrated with the Stagecoach Sheffield bus operations, purchased by Stagecoach in 2005.

Stagecoach left the long distance express coach market in 1988 when it sold its operations to National Express.

On 21 November 2005 Stagecoach announced the sale of its New Zealand operations to Infratil for NZ $ 250. 5m (£ 100m ; US $ 171. 6m ).

Following the sale of its London bus operations to Macquarie Bank in 2006, Stagecoach UK Bus concentrated on the bus market outside the UK capital, focusing on organic growth and exploring acquisition options.

In October 2010 Stagecoach expanded further by re-acquiring East London Bus Group, Stagecoach's former London bus operations.

The trading name of these operations is Stagecoach in Devon.

They are currently playing in the Stagecoach Super League Premier Division of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region.

They have had a tumultuous and fairly barren period in recent times, however this has changed in the past few seasons, buying players from senior teams such as Brian McGinty and Mark Crilly with them doing well in the Scottish Junior Cup, winning promotion from the Stagecoach Ayrshire League in 2005 – 06 and winning promotion from the Stagecoach Super League Division One in 2006 – 07.

In 1998, Matthew Hudson sold Prestwick Airport to Stagecoach, a large Scottish transportation group helmed by Sir Brian Souter.

He regularly tables Parliamentary Questions scrutinising the Scottish Government ’ s conduct, and supposedly exposed several " irregularities ", including the entertaining of wealthy SNP backers at Bute House at the expense of the taxpayer, and the preferential treatment given to Stagecoach, whose co-founder Brian Souter gave £ 500, 000 to the SNP, in the Forth hovercraft project.

Successfully competing against the then state-owned National Express and Scottish Citylink, the company grew significantly between 1981 and 1985, when Stagecoach entered local bus operation with the acquisition of McLennan Of Spittalfield, near Perth.

In September 2005, following competition with its Megabus coach operation, Stagecoach launched a joint venture with Scottish Citylink coaches.

After a competition enquiry, in October 2006 Stagecoach was instructed to sell some of the Scottish coach services.

On 13 September 2005 Stagecoach and ComfortDelGro announced a joint venture in the provision of express coach services in Scotland, ending intense competition between ComfortDelGro's subsidiary Scottish Citylink and Stagecoach subsidiaries Megabus and Motorvator.

Under the terms of the joint venture, the Stagecoach Group will acquire a 35 % stake in Scottish Citylink Coaches Ltd, with Citylink assuming certain rights to the Megabus and Motorvator brands in Scotland.

The " Magic Mini " brand was also engaged in a miniature bus war on the Black Isle to Inverness route in the Highlands with local operator Scotbus, with Stagecoach in Inverness adopting aggressive tactics such as scheduling buses five minutes before the rival operator and undercutting fares.

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Virgin Rail Group bid for a number of rail franchises being awarded the InterCity West Coast franchise after beating Sea Containers and Stagecoach.

On 2 April 2001 the Strategic Rail Authority awarded Stagecoach a new franchise after it beat bids from First / Ned Rail and Sea Containers.

The new dates were April 17, 18 and 19 with the third annual edition of the country-music Stagecoach Festival, to start the week after.

Stagecoach lines came through the valley along its foothills after Fremont's visit and were the preferred way of travel for colonists before the coming of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1876.

Yakima in John Ford's Stagecoach after doing the " transfer " part of his most famous stunt

The sale netted Stagecoach £ 132m after third-party debt.

Stagecoach Portugal had its origins in the reprivatization of Portuguese bus and coach operation, which had been nationalized after the 1974 Revolution.

Inspired to become a filmmaker after watching John Ford's Stagecoach, he would insert elements of the Western in war films like Desperado Outpost ( 1959 ) and Westward Desperado ( 1960 ), and eventually even filmed his own samurai Western in East Meets West ( 1995 ).

Stagecoach Fife can be trace back to 1909 and after buyout and mergers become part of Walter Alexander & Sons.

Soon after, Stagecoach would purchase the Inverness and Tain operations of Highland Scottish and become the dominant operator of Inverness area services.

The yellow and cream livery was replaced with the Stagecoach corporate white with red, orange and blue stripes, and shortly after privatisation the legal company name was changed to Bluebird Buses Ltd, which is today a part of Stagecoach East Scotland.

Though for several years after the take over buses on the former A1 Service routes wore Stagecoach A1 Service fleetnames, the unit was eventually amalgamated with Western Buses Ltd and all vehicles except those on the Ardrossan-Kilmarnock service began trading as Stagecoach Western.

The next day, Stagecoach rolled out 27 brand new buses in current " swoops ", spelling the end of the A1 livery after over 80 years.

After a stillborn attempt in 1995 to purchase KCB, Stagecoach settled for a 20 % stake in competitor Strathclyde Buses who purchased KCB ), the present Stagecoach Glasgow operations were launched in 1997, after Strathclyde Buses sold to First Group, and offered fast, direct and frequent services from Glasgow City Centre to Easterhouse, Castlemilk, Pollok, Darnley, East Kilbride and Cumbernauld.

In November 7, the SSY in conjunction with the SSP LGBT Network organised a protest against Stagecoach after two young gay men were threatened with being thrown off a bus as one had their arm around the other.

In August 2008, Stagecoach stopped its direct route to the village after 7pm and all day Sunday.

Launched in an initial light grey livery, following the takeover by Stagecoach the trams wore the Stagecoach corporate livery from 1997.