Transport for LondonVictoria Coach Station
It covers slightly less than three acres of ground on the corner of Buckingham Palace Road and Elizabeth Street, just half a mile from Buckingham Palace, and it replaced a Coach Terminal in Lupus Street, Pimlico.With only a brief and enforced interruption during part of the Second World War, the company provided London terminal facilities for its shareholding operators and their passengers.
Group coach operators
Amalgamations and grouping of the Coach Operators had placed most of the shares of the company in the hands of operators who were part of the country's two large bus groups, Tilling and BET. The 1968 Transport Act established the National Bus Company (NBC) as a statutory company to bring together the bus and coach interests of both groups, and London Coastal Coaches became a subsidiary of the NBC.
During the 1970s Victoria Coach Station was the responsibility of the NBC subsidiary, National Travel (South East) Limited. At the end of 1978, the London Coastal Coaches Company was brought back to life and renamed Victoria Coach Station Limited, experience having shown the need for corporate management.
In 1988, following the privatisation of the NBC companies, Victoria Coach Station Limited was acquired by London Transport at the request of the Secretary of State for Transport.
