Parent Richard Dawes Headquarters Alexandria Service type Coach services | Commenced operation 1993 Service area Sydney & Central West Depots 2 | |
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Australia Wide Coaches is an Australian coach company operating charter services, an express service between Orange and Sydney and services in Central West New South Wales under contract to NSW TrainLink.
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History
Australia Wide Coaches was founded by Richard Dawes and Phil Langley in 1993 in Sydney.
In October 2009, the coach operations of Selwoods Coaches, Orange were purchased. Selwoods had been operating a service from Orange to Sydney since April 1989. Since June 1990, Selwoods had been operating services under contract to CountryLink from Lithgow to Orange, Grenfell and Parkes. Both of these remain in operation today.
In November 2013, Australia Wide Coaches commenced operating Gray Line services in Sydney under licence to the Driver Group.
On 2 September 2014, a service commenced operating between Orange and Canberra.
On 18 February 2016, the office and depot relocated from Mascot to Alexandria.
Fleet
As at February 2015, the fleet consisted of 16 coaches. It commenced operations with an Austral Tourmaster before gradually expanding with Scania coaches.