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History

On 29 September 1996, Transport Management Group Pty Limited (TMG), trading as Southern Coast Transit, commenced operating services in the Rockingham area from depots in

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and Rockingham with 57

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and

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buses. It was owned by

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bus operators the Donric Group and SkyBus. In August 1997, two Denning double decker coaches were acquired from

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and Australian Pacific Touring to operate a

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service. On 5 July 1998, Southern Coast was awarded the contract to operate Cockburn,

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and the Perth CAT services, also awarded Belmont and Claremont area services as CGEA Group. In June 1999, TMG including Southern Coast Transit was sold to

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who in September 2004 sold it to Connex. It was rebranded as

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and in July 2013 as Transdev Perth, then later as Transdev WA. Connex had previously operated services in Perth as Perthbus (later Connex WA) since 1998, before selling its operations to

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in September 2002. Between May 2011 and January 2020, Transdev operated the

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area contract. Transdev lost the contract to

on 19 January 2020. , Transdev WA operates the Central Area Transit (Perth CAT),

and Rockingham area contracts. In July 2022, new bus contracts for Fremantle and Rockingham were awarded to Transdev for another 10 years, starting on 2 October 2022.

Depots

Transdev WA operate five depots in

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, O'Connor (Fremantle), Rockingham and Pinjarra.

References

External links

Company websiteTransperth
{{TransperthBusStations Bus companies of Western Australia Transperth bus operators Transdev Australian companies established in 1996