post losses at Companies House, however, generating pre-tax losses of £1,818,000 in the year ending 30 December 2017 and further losses of £1,975,000 in the year to 31 December 2018. On 2 July 2019, following a review of its operations, RATP Group sold Bournemouth Transport Limited to the three directors of the latter company in a management buyout. In the months following the management buyout, Yellow Buses further incurred financial losses, losing £2.65 million over 15 months leading to March 2020, said to have been caused by the replacement of computer systems and the cost of the management buyout from the RATP Group. In the February of the same year, Yellow Buses stopped using Poole Bus Station due to anti-social behaviour in the area. Administration Two years later after difficulties in attempting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the company fell into administration in July 2022, citing loss in revenue and an increase in running costs for the business. Yellow Buses ceased operations on 4 August 2022 with bus services operated by the company cancelled, with some of its key routes taken over by morebus. Yellow Coaches was purchased by Xelabus of Eastleigh on 5 August, though it's operations ceased in February 2023 with their tender for its services expiring the same month. The National Express Group purchased the intercity coaching and engineering operations of Yellow Buses from administrators Milsted Langdon on 8 August. Services At the time the company ended operation, it ran the following routes in Bournemouth and surrounding area: 1, 1b: Poole - Bournemouth - Christchurch 1a: Bournemouth - Somerford - New Milton 2: Bournemouth - Castlepoint - Bearwood 3: Westbourne - Royal Bournemouth Hospital 3x: Poole Hospital - Royal Bournemouth Hospital (express service) 4: Bournemouth - Royal Bournemouth Hospital - Somerford 5, 5a: Bournemouth - Kinson 6: Bournemouth - Bearwood - Wimborne 6h: Royal Bournemouth Hospital - Wimborne Buster's Beach Bus: Alum Chine - Hengistbury Head Buster's New Forest Explorer: Christchurch - Ringwood 18: Bournemouth - Broadstone 33: Bournemouth - Christchurch 36: Talbot View - Kinson 727: Boscombe - Aviation Business Park 737: Bournemouth - Bournemouth Airport Terminal Morebus took over the routes 1/1b, 1a, 2, 4, 5/5a, 6, 18, 33, 36 and 737 above, and the remainder ceased operation. However, following the retendering process, the council-subsidised routes 18, 33 and 36 were transferred to Yellow Coaches starting from 15 August, while on the same weekend,