Hoys Roadlines













			HOYS

		Hoys Roadlines Pty Ltd was established in Wangaratta around 70 years ago by the company's founders, Eric and Edith Hoy. They operated a number of Coach services out of Wangaratta including the railway contract to provide a connecting coach service between Porepunkah, on the old Wangaratta to Bright Railway Line, and the Mount Buffalo Chalet which was then operated by the Victorian Railways. This service was later altered to connect with the train at Wangaratta following the closure of the Bright rail line. Other services ran to Kiewa and Mount Beauty.

	Since then the company, now operated by Helen Watson, has expanded, operating a number of school bus runs, charter coaches, and Victorian Department of Infrastructure contract coach services including 'Speedlink', the daily Albury/Adelaide service.Hoys have always been seen as innovators and pioneers in new fields.


It came as little surprise to the industry back in August 1993 when the Victorian Government called for private tenders to operate numerous endangered rail lines, that Hoys won the contract to operate the Melbourne to Cobram service with a mixture of Coach and Rail travel. Hoys became the first private company to operate a passenger train on Victorian government tracks since the Altona and Laverton Bay Freehold and Investment Co Ltd handed over their line to the Victorian Railways back in 1924.
			Hoys now operate two trains each way between Melbourne and Shepparton, Mondays to Saturdays , and one each way on Sundays. The connecting Coach service to Cobram has been extended to commence from Griffith in the mornings and return in the evenings offering people in those areas day returns to Melbourne.