The story
In 1964, the Spyrou and Sikavitsas families purchased routes 475, 476, 477 and 479 from Barnes Bus Lines and formed Kastoria Bus Lines.
In January 1971, the company was split, with the Spyrou gaining full control of Kastoria Bus Lines with routes 475 and 476, and the Sikavitsas family taking 477 and 479 to form Tullamarine Bus Lines. In May 1973, Kastoria Bus Lines acquired route 501.
Devesons Bus & Coach Service was acquired in October 1979. Coaches are operated under the Nationwide Tours brand.
In August 2009, the Spyrou family sold Kastoria Bus Lines to Dominic Sita, son of the Sita Buslines's founder George Sita. In 2011, Sita moved the Kastoria depot from Airport West (at 77E Matthews Avenue) to a new site at Westmeadows.
Kastoria Bus Lines had since been reorganised under Northern Transit Holdings, along with other Dominic Sita's bus businesses, including Broadmeadows Bus Service which was acquired in 2011.
As part of CDC Melbourne's successful bid for bus services in northern and western Melbourne (including Kastoria's routes), Kastoria agreed to transfer its fleet, its Westmeadows depot and staff to CDC. The transfer of these assets and bus routes occurred on 1 July 2025. Routes transferred was 460, 462, 463, 469 and 476. However, as CDC was impacted by driver industrial action on 1 July 2025, CDC operations did not commence on these routes until the following day, 2 July 2025.
Following the transfer of the Westmeadows depot and route services to CDC, Nationwide Tours and the Kastoria charter operations continued to share the Westmeadows depot with CDC. They were subsequently absorbed into CDC Victoria in October 2025, and rebranded into CDC by early 2026.
From Wikipedia’s article on Kastoria Bus Lines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3