Torrens Transit Torrens Transit Torrens Transit is an Australian bus service operator in Adelaide. It operates services as part of the Adelaide Metro network under contract to the Government of South Australia. It is a subsidiary of Transit Systems. On 23 April 2000 Torrens Transit commenced operating the Adelaide Metro East-West contract with 255 buses under contract to the Government of South Australia. In April 2005 Torrens Transit commenced operating the North-South and Outer North East contracts that had previously been run by Serco. In July 2011 Torrens Transit commenced operating a new eight-year East-West contract with an optional four-year extension exercisable
Henry Whitelock Torrens Henry Whitelock Torrens Henry Whitelock Torrens (1806–1852), son of Major-General Henry Torrens, was born on May 20, 1806. He received his B. A. at Christ Church, Oxford and entered the inner temple. After a short service under the Foreign Office, he obtained a writership from the Court of Directors of the East India Company and arrived in India in Nov. 1828 and held various appointments at Meerut. In 1835 he joined the Secretariat, in which he served in several departments under Sir W. Macnaghten. In 1839 he assisted in the editing of the "Calcutta Star", a weekly paper, which became