Our history

1992

National Express Group floats on London Stock Exchange

UK
1995
TWM 2000 (1995 Acquisttion Of West Mids Trav)

Acquisition of West Midlands Travel, one of the UK's largest bus companies

Midlandmainlinestn 2001 (1996 Rail Entry) (1)
UK
1996

Enters UK rail market with acquisition of Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline

North America
1998
Durham School Services (1998 Acq)

Enters US transport market with acquisition of Durham School Services

2004 Travel London Acquisition
UK
2004

Enters London bus market with acquisition of Travel London

ALSA
2005
ALSA PUERTA ALCALA 2006 (2005 ALSA Acq)

Enters Spanish coach and bus market with acquisition of Alsa

Continental
ALSA
2007

Acquisition of Continental Auto in Spain

2012
Foundation History
  • Integration of Petermann into the North American business
  • Launch of the National Express Foundation to support young people
(2015 Bahrain Launch)
Middle East
2015
  • Launch of joint venture with Bahrain Public Transport Company to operate bus services in Bahrain.
  • Entered German rail market operating the Rhine-Munster Express
UK
2017
C2c Train And Customer At Fenchurch St (2017 Rail Exit)

Exit from UK rail operations with the sale of the c2c rail franchise to Trenitalia

Wedriveu Transit
2019
  • A strategic investment in WeDriveU enables the development of shuttle services across the USA.
  • Creation of National Express Accessible Transport to take over the West Midlands operations of Accessible Transport Group
  • Start of operations on the Rhine-Ruhr Express in Germany.
UK
2020
  • Acquired the Lucketts Travel Group across the South of England
  • Launched National Express Transport Solutions - bringing together the Kings Ferry and Lucketts businesses
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