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A Z&S Dennis Trident at Milton Keynes station on route 11 to Caldecotte, typical of the Council contracted routes that now serve much of Milton Keynes where Arriva Shires & Essex services have been withdrawn. Urban services in Milton Keynes have been operated by several companies under a wide range of names since the city's creation in 1967.
Arriva The Shires Limited [3] is based in Luton and operates bus garages in Luton, Milton Keynes, Stevenage, and Hemel Hempstead. Arriva The Shires evolved from the purchase of the Luton, Aylesbury and Hitchin depots of United Counties by Luton & District Transport (LDT) in a management buy-out in 1987. [4]
The original MK Metro logo Mercedes-Benz midibus at Milton Keynes station in May 2009 UVG Urbanstar bodied Dennis Dart Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB branded for route 5 in Central Milton Keynes shortly after the takeover by Arriva Optare Solo on high-frequency route 8 at Milton Keynes station in early 2009 Mercedes-Benz Citaro in a dedicated silver livery on route 300 after the Arriva takeover
Bus-route 3 to Milton Keynes Central railway station via Central Milton Keynes [1] Construction; Bicycle facilities: The Coachway is connected to the Milton Keynes redway system of cycle/ pedestrian routes. Accessible: All access routes are wheelchair-friendly. Key dates; 1989: opened: 2008: closed for demolition and rebuild: 2010: new building ...
In 2017, four Arriva Shires & Essex depots (Milton Keynes, Luton, Aylesbury and High Wycombe), and their routes, were transferred into the management of Arriva Midlands. The vehicles were renumbered in late 2018 and early 2019 to avoid multiple Arriva Midlands vehicles sharing the same fleet numbers.
Stagecoach X5 is an inter-urban bus service linking Oxford and Bedford via Bicester, Buckingham and Milton Keynes. Service started in 1992 with an hourly service between Oxford and Cambridge, which was increased to half-hourly in 2005; [1] new vehicles were introduced in 2009 and again in 2015.
In late 1997, new company MK Metro took over the Milton Keynes operations while Premier Buses took over the Huntingdon operation, both independent from Stagecoach. [10] [5] On 30 January 1998, the Huntingdon operation was sold to Sovereign Bus & Coach, owned by Blazefield Holdings who decided to rebrand it to Huntingdon & District. In November ...
The X4 became a Stagecoach Gold route in November 2011 with the delivery of 13 Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodied Scania N230UD double-decker buses. Running from Peterborough to Milton Keynes via Kettering, [27] the X4 was formerly the longest bus route in Northamptonshire, however from May 2018, the X4 was shortened to run only between ...