Rugby Depot
Railway Terrace, Rugby.
- Original garage opened by Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited (BMMO—Midland “Red” Motor Services) on 9th March 1926, as an outstation (“dormy garage”) of Leamington Spa depot.
- Full depot status by 1929, with engineering and maintenance facilities and an allocation of 12 single-deck buses.
- Additional accommodation rented nearby from November 1929.
- Additional accommodation built on the same road, replacing the older building in 1934. Opened on 8th November 1934, with a capacity of 30 vehicles.
- Extended in May 1938 and January 1942, increasing capacity to 42 then 54 vehicles.
- Replaced by a new garage on the same site in March 1967, with capacity of 73 vehicles.
- Company renamed to Midland Red Omnibus Company Limited (MROC) on 29th March 1974, with a depot allocation of 50 vehicles and approximately 133 staff at this time.
- Depot control passed to Midland Red (South) Limited as company headquarters when the Midland Red Omnibus Company Limited split up on Sunday 6th September 1981.
- Midland Red (South) Limited is privitised and sold to Western Travel Limited on Thursday 10th December 1987.
- Western Travel Limited, and it's subsiduary Midland Red (South) Limited, are sold to Stagecoach Group on Friday 26th November 1993, and soon after starts trading as “Stagecoach Midland Red”, although the legal name of Midland Red (South) Limited is unchanged.
- On Tuesday 22nd July 1997, Stagecoach Group purchase Thames Transit Limited, Oxford, and merged the newly acquired company with their existing Midland Red (South) Limited subsiduary, to form a new operational division under the name “Stagecoach South Midlands”. The Midland Red South head office in Rugby assumed administration duties for the combined operations, but both companies retained their legal names and operator licences. Stagecoach South Midlands trade with four sub-divisions; “Stagecoach in Banbury” for operations at Banbury depot, “Stagecoach in Warwickshire” for all other Midland Red (South) Limited operations, and ”Stagecoach in Oxford” and “Oxford Tube” for Thames Transit Limited operations.
- Stagecoach depots in Northamptonshire come under the control of Midland Red (South) Limited in 2010. The brand names of “Stagecoach in Warwickshire” and “Stagecoach in Northants” are phased out and replaced by “Stagecoach Midlands” at this time.
- Home to Stagecoach Megabus operations.