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Through the Trentbarton operations, Wellglade Group acquired a 6% shareholding of First Leicester in 1993, First Bus UK are the majority shareholder in the operations. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] During 2024, First Group purchased the Wellglade Group shareholding in Leicester CityBus ending the long standing shareholding.
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]
The unit was formed in 2008 with the merger of the management and administration of First Potteries, First Worcester and First Leicester. On 1 June 2020, First Midlands merged with First Manchester and First South Yorkshire. During a group restructure in 2022, Worcester moved from Midlands control to First West & Wales.
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 ...
The operations of First West Yorkshire and First York are to be remerged into a First North and West Yorkshire business unit on 1 October 2022, with current Managing Director Paul Matthews temporarily overseeing operations of the new business unit until a new Managing Director can be recruited. This is part of major changes to the FirstGroup's ...
The vehicles were renumbered in late 2018 and early 2019 to avoid multiple Arriva Midlands vehicles sharing the same fleet numbers. [ 21 ] In 2018 the Cannock depot began closing entirely on Sundays due to county council subsidy cuts, leaving Cannock without buses, with the Cannock depot being sold to D&G bus in January 2021.
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 ...
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