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Top 18 School bus operators based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 50 school bus operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,451 professional contacts across them, including 346 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers school bus operators headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 18 largest school bus operators based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 18 of 50 school bus operators based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to school bus operators: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20265,001-10,0001,013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A dynamic and ambitious company, Metroline is proudly serving one of the world’s busiest cities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2Partial evidencePoole, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,000176 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Go South Coast is wholly owned by the Go-Ahead Group and is one of its largest companies in the bus division, and certainly its most diverse.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3Indirect evidenceCrayford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-50017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Here at Centaur Travel we have been under the same family management since we were established in 1975.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4Indirect evidenceReading, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-20017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Horseman Coaches Ltd has been offering the very best in passenger transport since 1977.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mistral Group, incorporating Mistral Bus and Coach, Mistral Asset Finance, Mistral Specialist Vehicles and The Bus Shop is one of the leading suppliers of service buses to the UK…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLlanrwst, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-20014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We’re a family run company started by Llew Jones back in 1972 with 1 vehicle and built by the family over the last 40 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7Partial evidenceBath, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BATH BUS COMPANY LIMITED is a transportation/trucking/railroad company based out of 6 N Parade, Bath, United Kingdom.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8Indirect evidenceAveley South Ockendon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-50012 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9Indirect evidenceEllesmere, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLochgelly, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-2008 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bay Travel Coaches Limited is a transportation company based out of Thistle House, Cartmore Industrial Estate, Lochgelly, KY5 8LL United Kingdom.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11Indirect evidenceWest Drayton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-2007 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Welcome to Cruise Minibuses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12Partial evidenceHeanor, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-2007 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We've been proudly serving Loughborough and its fine citizens for over 20 years, and our blue and yellow buses have got brighter and more popular each year.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13Indirect evidenceTelford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-506 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“It's exciting times at A.T.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14Indirect evidenceBicester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-505 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Rivervale is the new home of Castle Minibus and are the UK's leading provider of minibuses and associated safety and maintenance services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15Strong evidenceGravesend, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-504 contacts →

Strong evidence

“1st Bus Stop is one of Kent’s finest Bus and Coach Operator’s, we supply bus and coach transport for all occasions, with excellent rates and friendly drivers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16Strong evidenceBirmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-502 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Specialists in bus safety Birmingham Busworks grew from the bodywork division of The Green Bus, an independent bus operator in Birmingham.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17Partial evidenceWelwyn, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-502 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Providing passenger vehicle services to schools, organisations, and the general public since 1962.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18Partial evidenceArundel, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

School Minibus Company is a minibus leasing specialist.We provide minibus leasing and purchasing packages for school minibuses, college, university and academy minibuses as well…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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School bus operators based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026
23.8%Verified-email coverage
29.0Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
8.0%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 50 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among school bus operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “school bus operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names school bus operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among school bus operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 346 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names school bus operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many school bus operators are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 50 school bus operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Metroline LTD, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most school bus operators?

London leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Coventry (2) and South Ockendon (2).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 346 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 50 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.