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.
History Australia Wide Coaches was founded by Richard Dawes and Phil Langley in 1993 in Dubbo."Australia Wide Coaches" Fleetline October 1993 page 218
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."New South Wales Deregulation" Australian Bus Panorama 5/2 September 1989 page 8 Since June 1990, Selwoods had been operating services under contract to CountryLink from Lithgow to Orange, Grenfell and Parkes.Australia Wide Coaches Australian Bus Fleet ListsSelwood Coaches Australian Bus Fleet Lists"Countrylink Contracts" Australian Panorama 6/3 October 1990 page 26 Both of these remain in operation today.Express Service Australia Wide CoachesOrange - Sydney Timetable Australia Wide Coaches
In November 2013, Australia Wide Coaches commenced operating Gray Line services in Sydney under licence to the Driver Group.AWC appointed licensee for Gray Line & Great Sights Sydney Australia Wide Coaches 21 November 2013
On 2 September 2014, a service commenced operating between Orange and Canberra.Canberra timetable Australia Wide Coaches This has since ceased.
In February 2016, the office and depot relocated from Mascot to Alexandria.
As of 1 August 2024, Australia Wide Coaches returned to Langley family ownership when Langley's Coaches purchased the Australia Wide Coaches operation with the full fleet of coaches.
Fleet As at February 2015, the fleet consisted of 16 coaches. It commenced operations with an Austral Tourmaster before gradually expanding with Scania coaches.
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