the sale of its New Zealand operations to Infratil for 250.5m New Zealand dollars (£100m; US$171.6m) [2] . On the 14 December 2005 Stagecoach purchased Barnsley -based Traction Group (Yorkshire Traction) for £26m, and also assume Traction's £11m debt. Traction operated 840 buses in South Yorkshire (Yorkshire Traction, Barnsley & District,