This section takes a closer look at the diverse range of buses that have made up the ACTION Buses fleet over the years.
On 1 July 2020, an era came to a close when Bus 116 – the last remaining ACTION Renault PR100.3 – was retired from service.
ACT Bus presents a guide to the various bus liveries of Canberra.
The first buses to operate in Canberra were three Graham Dodge Charabancs, two of which were purchased in 1922.
Download manuals for buses that previously formed part of the ACTION Fleet.
Kingston Depot closed on Sunday 5 July 1992. The days before the closure were filled with activity transferring the more than 100 buses which operated from Kingston.
ACTION’s regular route fleet on 31 December 2013 consisted of 418 buses
Canberra was the first Australian city to operate articulated buses and currently has a fleet of 44.
Read the full history of ACTION’s articulated bus fleet.
In November 2012, ACTION once more paid for twenty vinyl moustaches to be applied to bus windscreens in order to promote the Movember event to raise funds for mens health programs.
Reliability problems with earlier buses prompted the Department to have a look at the new Volvo B58 then being offered for the first time in Australia.
Canberra buses have featured six distinct styles of registration plates.
In November 2009, twenty ACTION buses were fitted with a moustache to help raise awareness of men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and depression.
The Mitsubishi ‘Tram-buses’ ran the City loop during the 1990s.
In 1981 with the delivery of ZIB-585, Canberra moved closer to the European scene with the addition of Mercedes-Benz buses to the fleet.
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