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First Leicester is the descendant of the former municipal bus operations of Leicester City Council, Leicester City Transport (itself descended from Leicester Corporation Tramways. Under bus deregulation in 1986, the council operation was incorporated as the council owned but arms length private company, Leicester Citybus Ltd.
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]
Kinchbus is a bus operator based in Loughborough.It was originally an independent company established by Gilbert and Janet Kinch. Kinchbus operate some local services around Loughborough along with their Kinchbus2 route between Barrow-upon-Soar and Loughborough, Skylink from Leicester to Derby via Loughborough and East Midlands Airport.
As of June 2024, the First York fleet consists 86 battery electric buses, which are based from a single depot on James Street. [1] The electrification of First York's fleet was primarily achieved through the awarding of £8.4 million of Department for Transport to the City of York Council for the purchase of 44 Wrightbus electric buses.
First York Wright StreetCar at York station in October 2010. FTR first operated in York with the conversion of First York's route 4 between Acomb and the University of York. The service began on 8 May 2006, after the city council had made significant and expensive alterations to the road layout to accommodate the new vehicles. [9] [10] The York ...
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 ...
Upon the buyout of original franchise operators Top Line Travel in 2008, Yorkshire Coastliner run the York franchise of international tour bus company City Sightseeing. [32] Services are operated by a fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro400 open-top double-deck vehicles and a Plaxton President bodied VDL DB250 open-top double-deck vehicle, branded ...
A clock-face schedule, also cyclic schedule, is a timetable system under which public transport services run at consistent intervals, as opposed to a timetable that is purely driven by demand and has irregular headways. The name derives from the fact that departures take place at the same time or times during the day.