/ Coach operator Yorkshire Voyager Travel Services has gone into
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liquidation just a few weeks after National Express sold its 50% stake in the firm, National Express refuses to comment on why it sold its shares in the Leeds-based firm, which it set up with two other directors just over a year ago; it would only confirm that its shares were sold to somebody "outside the industry". Liquidator Cork Gully says that it is looking for a buyer for YVTS, which operated more than 20 coaches. The company is understood to have ceased trading. Most of YVTS's work was contracted by National Express, and until its demise it operated 17 coaches for the touring giant. Since the liquidation other National Express contractors have taken on YVTS's work.
Tenders have been put out for selected routes, including Yorkshire to London, TransPennine, Yorkshire-Midlands and South Wales.
National Express stresses that it has no intention of pulling out of its three other joint-venture companies.