Private company

Thames Travel

Oxfordshire bus operator

Thames Travel is a bus operator serving the southern part of the English county of Oxfordshire. It is based in Didcot and is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group's Go Thames Valley operation alongside Oxford Bus Company, City Sightseeing Oxford and Pearces Coaches, all also of Oxfordshire, Carousel Buses of Buckinghamshire and Pulhams Coaches of Gloucestershire, having been purchased as a 35-vehicle independent operator in May 2011.2 It is part of Go-Ahead Group plc.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1998Founded1

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Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Thames Travel is a bus operator serving the southern part of the English county of Oxfordshire. It is based in Didcot and is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group's Go Thames Valley operation alongside Oxford Bus Company, City Sightseeing Oxford and Pearces Coaches, all also of Oxfordshire, Carousel Buses of Buckinghamshire and Pulhams Coaches of Gloucestershire, having been purchased as a 35-vehicle independent operator in May 2011.2

Corporate structure

Thames Travel is part of a group headed by Go-Ahead Group plc. 44 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

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Timeline

  1. 1998Founded Founded1

Sources

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