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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 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 ...
During December 2020, Leicester City Council announced the bus station would close from 31 December [2] [3] [4] for around 18 months to allow for a total redevelopment of the bus station and surrounding roads. St Margaret's is the first carbon neutral bus station in the United Kingdom.
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.
'Indigo' became the first bus service in the United Kingdom to operate a '24 hours a day, 7 days a week' from 24 July 2011. [16] ' Indigo' also operated between East Midlands Airport and Loughborough until March 2012, when that section of the route was replaced by a revised ' skylink Nottingham' service, which runs between Nottingham and East ...
Leicester Railway Station ... Hop! is a free anti-clockwise circular bus route operating ... History. The service was introduced on 3 April 2023. [1] [2] In its first ...
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.
Kinchbus was founded in 1987 by former Leicester City Football Club director Gilbert Kinch trading as G.K. Kinch and based in Barrow Upon Soar. Before moving into local bus services, Kinch had operated coaches from nearby Mountsorrel since at least 1972.