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NZ Bus NZ Bus NZ Bus, formerly Stagecoach New Zealand, is New Zealand's largest bus company, operating in Auckland and Wellington, with a fleet of around 1,100 vehicles. It owned 96% of Fullers Ferries in Auckland but has sold this shareholding. It is a subsidiary of Infratil. In 1992 Stagecoach purchased Wellington City Transport (WCT), the largest bus-operator in Wellington, from Wellington City Council. WCT had recently purchased the Auckland, Hutt Valley and north Wellington suburban bus operations of New Zealand Railways Road Services, then branded "CityLine". Stagecoach expanded its Auckland operations in 1998 by purchasing Transportation Auckland Corporation (trading as The