About
History of Newtons & Citibus
PT Citibus is a bus and coach company 100% owned by Invercargill Passenger Transport Ltd. PT Citibus operates public transport routes in Dunedin, School bus services, Charter buses, and tourism transport services throughout New Zealand’s lower South Island.
Prior to its purchase in 2011 by Invercargill Passenger Transport Ltd, Citibus Limited previously called Citibus-Newton traces its roots back to its days as the municipal bus operator in Dunedin known as Dunedin City Transport. Dunedin City Transport (also variously called Dunedin Corporation Transport or Dunedin Corporation Tramways or DCT) operated Dunedin's cable car system and trams as a municipal transport department of the Dunedin City Council. Typically of most cities, Dunedin converted the tram and cable car routes firstly (in the 1950s) to trolley bus then to diesel bus (by the early 1980s). In the mid-1980s Rogernomics reforms, the department was incorporated as a Local Authority Trading Enterprise and named Citibus Ltd.
Newton's Coachways was a charter coach, sightseeing and school bus company owned by Stewart and Norma Newton, itself successor to an earlier family firm Mitchell's. Newton's took over the Dunedin area services and fleet of the New Zealand Railways Road Services, known as Cityline and re-branded it Newton's City Line. Newton's was taken over by Citibus in 1993, and the combined firm traded for many years as Citibus-Newton Ltd or CNL.
CNL took the opportunity to simplify its name to Citibus in 2005 upon arrival of a new CEO, also with a new CEO Citibus extended its business back to its urban operations as the company had a more tourist focus operation in recent years.
Brochures and Guides
Dunedin Bus Timetable (PDF 2.3Mb)
