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Centrebus have operated the 40 service since around 2003 but the history can be traced back to the early 1980s. As part of the Leicester bus partnership, Centrebus and Leicester City Council successfully applied for ZEBRA funding for electric vehicles to operate on service 40, these were launched on 24 October 2022. [1]
As of 2024, the fleet consists of around 40 buses which includes Enviro200 MMCs, Optare Versas and Optare Solos. [citation needed] As a result of the frequency increase to Skylink (Leicester - Derby) in March 2024 a number of vehicles are currently on long-term loan from fellow Wellglade Group subsidiary trentbarton.
Alexander Dennis Enviro400 branded for the FrequentFourteens in Glenfield in June 2023. As of August 2024, the First Leicester fleet consists of 110 buses, [citation needed] 68 of which are Wright GB Kite Electroliner battery electric single-deck buses that began entering service in May 2023; [5] [6] an additional 18 Streetdeck Electroliners were delivered during spring 2024. [7]
During 2021 Leicester City Council successfully applied for £11 million of funding from the Government's ZEBRA scheme, which was used by Arriva Midlands to order 24 Wright StreetDeck Electroliner battery electric buses that were delivered by October 2023 and entered service from April 2024, mainly on the services 47, 48, 50 and 51 to the south ...
Centrebus Group, [1] is a public transport company based in Leicester with bus services in the Midlands, North West and South East of England. Owned by Julian Peddle , the group contains Chaserider , [ 2 ] Centrebus , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] High Peak Buses [ 6 ] and D&G Bus .
Centrebus Limited, [1] trading as Centrebus, is a bus company based in Leicester operating services in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. Centrebus hold a 51% shareholding in High Peak Buses and since December 2019 D&G Bus has become a part of the Centrebus Group through shareholder Julian ...
In 2008 the registered office of First Midland Red Buses Limited moved from Worcester to that used by First Leicester in Abbey Lane, Leicester. The operation was rebranded as First Worcester following the closure of Hereford depot in 2015. During July 2022, First Group announced proposals for changes to their operating structure of UK bus ...
Kinchbus upgraded the Leicester-Derby route with 12 ADL Enviro200 MMCs to help meet the now cancelled Leicester clean air zone requirements which was due to come into force during late 2020, an additional four vehicles are being refurbished from the trentbarton fleet for the uplift in service. [12] [13] These new buses replaced Mercedes-Benz ...