History
The UK coach market was deregulated in 1980 under the Transport Act 1980. Route 757 was started the same year as part of a new Green Line network.
In 2005, five new VDL SB4000/Van Hool T9 were ordered for the route, these were some of the first wheelchair accessible coaches to enter service with disabled passengers entering via the front door. In 2007, one of these coaches sustained severe accident damage in a fatal accident on the M1 motorway.
In 2006, as part of some easyBus service changes, some of the 757 coaches were repainted into easyBus orange. Thus, the minibus serves operated by easyBus over the same route of the 757 has now been incorporated into the coach route. Tickets can be used on either vehicles, and all coaches display prominent, "Green Line (or easyBus) passengers welcome" notices.
More recently, it has been common to see some of Arriva's standard buses on the route, most often Scania/Wright Solars branded for Luton Town services.
In February 2008, the route was revised to run as a standard service from Luton, then Luton Airport to London. Route 755 continued however.
An order was announced in April 2008 for 13 new tri-axle VDL SB4000/Van Hool T9s for the route.
In 2009 the route was runner-up in the UK Bus Awards Express Operation of the Year category.
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