GO Wellington is the brand name of Wellington City Transport Ltd, the Wellington subsidiary of NZ Bus, in New Zealand. The company was branded Stagecoach Wellington by its previous owner, the Stagecoach Group. The current name and a new livery were announced in November 2006 by NZ Bus owner Infratil. It is an operator of bus routes in Greater Wellington Regional Council's Metlink network.
Wellington City Transport operated trams, buses, a cable car and trolley buses, tracing its history back to 1904. It built and operated the first municipal electric tramway system in New Zealand. Later the department acquired the cable car company.
As at February 2010:
16 x MAN 12.223 39-seat buses, numbered between 1310 and 1324 (in service 2002) and 1361 (Ex-Otago Road Services 31)29 x MAN 17.223 51-seat buses, numbered in the 14xx (in service 2004) and 24xx ranges (in service 2005)2 x MAN 10.160 30-seat buses ex-Stagecoach Auckland Link in 2003, numbered 1296, 129736 x MAN 11.190 39-seat buses in service between 1996 & 1997, numbered between 622-639 and 641-65824 x MAN 11.190 39-seat buses in service 1999, numbered between 757 and 78010 x MAN 16.200 39-seat buses in service between 1989 & 1991, numbered between 171 and 1801 x MAN 16.240 41-seat bus in service 1991, was Wellington City Transport sightseeing bus 1813 x MAN SL243 53-seat buses transferred from Stagecoach Auckland in 2001, numbered 1131, 1132, 11332 x MAN SL200 45-seat buses ex-Stagecoach Auckland in 2007, used as temporary trolleybus replacement, numbered 1686, 168725 x MAN SL202 45-seat buses numbered between 141 and 170 (in service 1987-1989; 150, 158, 161, 165, 169 were transferred to Cityline Auckland in 1995, later part of Stagecoach Auckland)2 x Mercedes-Benz 709D 25-seat buses numbered 39 and 40, transferred from Cityline Hutt Valley in 20022 x Volvo B10M 41-seat single door buses numbered 25 and 26 (ex Stagecoach Flyer, transferred from Stagecoach in Hong Kong)2 x Volvo B10M 45-seat buses numbered 1299 and 1300 (ex Yellow Bus Company in Auckland via Cityline Hutt Valley)1 x Leyland Leopard 4-seat bus numbered 480 utilised as a mobile stage3 x Designline SLF 39-seat trolleybuses 301 (rebuild of 206), 302, 30356 x Designline SLF 42-seat trolleybuses numbered 331-387.13 x Scania K270UB 6x2 49-seat buses numbered between 2111 and 2123.In April 2016, NZ Bus announced that it would repower several buses with Wrightspeed gas-turbine hybrid powertrains.
