road service

plural road services

1. transportA service provided by a vehicle, such as a bus, along roads, as opposed to a rail service, a service by train.

   Unfortunately, even in the palmiest days of the old Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Company, passengers were few and far between at Troutbeck, and since the advent of the motor bus road services they are rarer than ever, and never likely to increase.

   1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709