When John Ford ’ s production of Stagecoach pulled into town in 1938 ( a Sedona connection that has eluded historians since the film was made ), it set off three solid decades of A-picture activity — forty-four features through 1973, helped along by the construction of Sedona Lodge, the only permanent boarding and production facility ever built specifically for movie crews on remote location in the United States.

It has an annual festival, Stagecoach Trail days.

This has proved to be very controversial, with the town's major bus operator Stagecoach in Warwickshire threatening to reduce many bus services if the road is closed to traffic.

Virgin Trains ( legal name West Coast Trains Limited, company no 3007940 ) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Group ( 51 %) and Stagecoach ( 49 %) that has operated the InterCity West Coast franchise since March 1997.

Banbury has an intra-urban bus service provided by Stagecoach Group which feeds the outlying villages and provides transport to places such as Oxford, Chipping Norton and Brackley.

Stagecoach acquired the company from Yorkshire Traction in 2005, and has come under fire for operating the service poorly.

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.

Eastleigh has 17 bus routes, served by 6 different companies: Stagecoach South, Bluestar, Brijan Tours, First Group Hampshire, Wilts & Dorset or Velvet.

Stagecoach South bus company has its headquarters here.

There are no train stations in the village itself, but a bus service run by Stagecoach connects the village to Walmer railway station, which has direct trains to London.

* Island Line Trains-Island Line, the rail system for the Isle of Wight, has also been operated by Stagecoach since privatisation and was merged into the South West franchise in 2007.

: Stagecoach Supertram-Stagecoach has operated the Sheffield Supertram under a concession from the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive since 1997.

The Stagecoach Group has also indirectly attracted criticism through controversial statements and actions made by its chairman and co-founder, Brian Souter, regarding certain public statements and his funding of a campaign to block the repeal the Section 28 law.

For its part, Stagecoach has defended the actions of its driver.

At both subsidiaries great improvement has been made, such as most of the Stagecoach buses have been replaced.

Since the administration period and restructuring of the former TransBus International, Alexander Dennis has secured a number of major orders from UK operators, and is the favoured manufacturer of the Stagecoach Group.

Since 2006 it has been operated as a 65: 35 joint venture between Singapore based ComfortDelGro and Perth ( Scotland ) based Stagecoach Group.

Since privatisation, however, Fife Scottish has built up its own substantial network of express services under the Stagecoach Express banner.

Since joining the Stagecoach Group, Stagecoach Strathtay now has an operating area bounded by Aberdeen in the north, Gauldry & Newport-on-Tay to the south and Perth to the west.

Before joining Stagecoach, Strathtay operated only as far as Laurencekirk in the north ; however, the Montrose depot has acquired some work from Bluebird's Stonehaven depot, including route 24 from Brechin to Stonehaven, route 103 from Laurencekirk to Aberdeen and a handful of School Contracts serving Mackie Academy in Stonehaven.

Strathtay is bordered to the north, east and south by Stagecoach subsidiaries, all part of Stagecoach East Scotland, which Strathtay has also joined.

Since deregulation the majority ( 80 % by the late 1990s ) of these local bus companies have been taken over by one of the " Big Five " private transport companies: Arriva ( part of Deutsche Bahn AG ), First Group, Go-Ahead Group, National Express Group ( owners of National Express ) and Stagecoach Group.

He had also been a co-star with Robert Bray and Richard Eyer in the western series Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television production on ABC from 1960 – 1961.

The Group agreed to open its books to the Cosmen and CVC consortium on 10 September 2009, though had reportedly been looking into selling its bus and rail franchises to rival Stagecoach Group, according to The Times.

Ford had been using the area in Monument Valley around Mexican Hat, Utah, south of Moab, since he filmed Stagecoach there 10 years earlier in 1939.

On 29 March 2012 the Department for Transport announced Abellio, First, Govia, MTR and Stagecoach have been shortlisted for the new Thameslink Southern Great Northern franchise.

On 20 December 2005 the Department for Transport announced that Arriva, First, MTR / Sea Containers, National Express and Stagecoach had been shortlisted to tender for the new South Western franchise which combined the South West Trains and Island Line Trains franchises, National Express later pulling out.

Before its launch, Hubba Bubba had been referred to as " Stagecoach " during product development and early manufacturing at the now-defunct Wrigley plant in Santa Cruz, California.

In North America, Stagecoach owns the Coach USA and Coach Canada brands, although the Western and South Central units of the company have been sold to a two different private equity firms, now Coach America and American Coach, with other companies sold to Peter Pan and being rebranded under that name.

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

In June 2001 Stagecoach announced the sale of their Portuguese operations to ScottURB for £ 14 million ( generating £ 6 million surplus for Stagecoach ), even though turnover and operating profit for the year ended 30 April 2000 had been £ 6. 8 million and £ 1. 1 million respectively.

On May 16, 2008 it was finally announced that the long anticipated purchase of Highland Country Buses ( and Orkney Coaches Ltd ) by Stagecoach Group had been finalised.

On May 16, 2008, it was finally announced that the long anticipated purchase of Highland Country Buses ( and Orkney Coaches Ltd ) by Stagecoach Group had been finalised.

The Stagecoach corporate livery has been adopted for vehicles and initially, most displayed Strathtay-Part of the Stagecoach Group fleetnames, however almost all buses have now been re-branded with " Stagecoach Strathtay ".

In addition, vehicles operating on the former AA Buses services in the Irvine area wear the historical AA green and cream livery, though to date there has never been a Stagecoach AA Buses brand.

Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.

By the late 1930s the Western film was widely regarded as a ' pulp ' genre in Hollywood, but its popularity was dramatically revived in 1939 by the release of John Ford's landmark Western adventure Stagecoach, which became one of the biggest hits of the year released though United Artists, and made John Wayne a mainstream screen star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns.

From 1866 till 1885, the famous Chisholm Trail cattle drives through this area with the Stagecoach Inn being one of the stops.

The Stagecoach Group took over the franchise on the privatisation of British Rail in 1996 and retained it against stiff competition in 2007 making it, with Chiltern Railways and Virgin West Coast, one of the three longest-running franchises.

The majority of the bus services from Aldershot are provided by Stagecoach in Hants & Surrey, with one being provided by Fleet Buzz and a National Express coach between London and Portsmouth twice a day.

Along with The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, and Stagecoach, it is also widely considered to be one of director John Ford's best westerns and generally ranks alongside Red River, The Searchers, The Big Trail, and Stagecoach as one of John Wayne's best films.

* Two " Stagecoach Robbery " cards add one capture point and $ 3000 to a reward ;

In 2007 two gay teenagers in Aberdeenshire were threatened with being removed from the bus because one had his arm round the shoulders of the second ; ' hug-in ' protests around Scotland then followed from members of the Scottish Socialist Party and gay rights activists, calling on Stagecoach to apologise.

Four days later, on 21 May 2004, the remaining part of TransBus ( Alexander and Dennis ) was bought by independent business men ( one of whom was Brian Souter, owner of the Stagecoach Group, although the acquisition was kept separate from the bus and train operation ).

Stagecoach responded fiercely to the competition in Western's operating area, and was banned by the Traffic Commissioner from operating on the Ayr to Dalmellington route due to predatory and uncompetitive action against competitor Carrick Coaches for a period of one year.

For the period of this ban AA Buses, which would later be owned by Stagecoach, registered a new service for the one year period, matching the service that Stagecoach Western was forced to withdraw.

However, due to Stagecoach in Warwickshire taking control of these routes, only one route ( Route 10 ) now runs, to Rugby.

A1 was slow to introduce ' one person operated ' buses, and conductors continued on the arterial Ardrossan / Kilmarnock service well into the late 1990s, even under Stagecoach ownership.

Ironically, Bennett's was to be one of the first Stagecoach acquisitions, and A1 Service found itself competing with the fledgling Perth-based operator.

Legally these companies still exist, and Stagecoach London's buses carried legal lettering for either one or other of these companies.

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 an interview, Li-An noted that one reason Boule de Suif was chosen for the Delacourt " Ex Libris " collection was that it had been " more or less at the base of John Ford's Stagecoach " and that the original short story offered a timeless message about human nature and how the " value of a person does not depend on social status " but rather on one's own personality.

In 2008, The Judds once again reunited for a concert at the 2008 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, as well as two shows in Canada, including one at the world famous Calgary Stampede and another at the Merritt Mountain Music Festival in Merritt, British Columbia.

After playing young Lieutenant Blanchard in the 1939 classic Stagecoach, Tim Holt had one of the leading roles in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ).