page_title: Badgerline
section_title: 1996-2003
hierarchical_section_title: Badgerline / History / 1996-2003
caption_attribution_description: Plymouth Seaton Barracks site 2001
context_page_description: Badgerline was a bus operator in and around Bristol from 1985 until 2003. Its headquarters were in Weston-super-Mare. Initially a part of the Bristol Omnibus Company, it was privatised in September 1986 and sold to Badgerline Holdings in a management buyout. It went on to purchase a number of bus companies in England and Wales. In November 1993, Badgerline Group was listed on the stock exchange and, on 16 June 1995, it merged with the GRT Group to form FirstBus.
  In 2018, Badgerline was reintroduced as the name for First West of England's bus services in Weston-super-Mare.
context_section_description: In 1996, Badgerline, as part of First Group, was merged back into Bristol Omnibus, although Badgerline was retained as a trading name. In July 1997 the Streamline operation in Bath was purchased by FirstGroup and merged with Badgerline, although the Streamline name was retained for a while. It had started as a taxi company but expanded into minibus services. At the time of takeover it had 20 buses, three of which were full size single deck buses.
  Bristol Omnibus was renamed First Bristol in 1999 but Badgerline was managed independently again from 2000.
  First Somerset & Avon was created on 30 May 2003 to combine the operations of both Badgerline and Southern National under the First brand. In April 2017, following a reorganisation, First Somerset & Avon was combined with First Bristol to become First West of England.
caption: A First Badgerline branded bus seen in 2001, in First corporate livery.
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