page_title: Transdev (historic)
section_title: United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: Transdev (historic) / History / United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: Transdev Yellow Buses 271 (T271 BPR), a Dennis Trident/East Lancs Lolyne, in Bournemouth Triangle, on route 32. This was the first double-decker bus to be painted in the new Transdev livery.
context_page_description: Transdev was an international public transport group based in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France and operating in several countries. Originally created as Société centrale pour l'équipement du territoire in 1955 and developing transportation activities since 1973, Transdev was a subsidiary Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, a French stated-owned financial institution. On 3 March 2011, the group merged with Veolia Transport, one of its main competitors, into Veolia Transdev. During 2013, Veolia Transdev was renamed Transdev, recognising the planned withdrawal of Veolia Environnement from ownership of the group.
  As part of this merger, the RATP Group, a minority shareholder in Transdev, took direct ownership of a number of former Transdev operations in lieu of a cash payment.
  Transdev was also a shareholder of Transamo, a transport engineering and consultancy firm in Europe, which specialises in the project management of public transport projects in France. It was passed onto Veolia Transdev after the merger. Société de Transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles is the other major shareholder of Transamo.
context_section_description: Transdev became the first continental European company to acquire an urban bus network in the UK with the purchase of London United in August 1997, giving the company a 9% share of the London bus market. In November 2002, a further London business, London Sovereign, was purchased.
  In March 2004 as part of the Arrow Light Rail consortium it commenced operating the Nottingham Express Transit tram network with Nottingham City Transport, a company which it subsequently purchased an 18% stake.
  In December 2005, Transdev purchased a 90% shareholding in Yellow Buses, Bournemouth.
  In January 2006, Transdev purchased the Blazefield Group with 305 buses.
caption: A Transdev Yellow Buses East Lancs Lolyne bodied Dennis Trident 2 in Bournemouth in June 2006
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