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NBC Trent buses at Derby bus station in 1980 Preserved Trent Buses Northern Counties Paladin bodied Volvo B10B in October 2019 Barton Buses Plaxton Supreme bodied Leyland Leopard in 1993. In October 1913, the Trent Motor Traction Company was founded, [1] commencing operations with a bus service between Ashbourne and Derby.
In 2012, there was a dispute between the two operators resulting in Stagecoach timing its services to run five minutes before the Trent Barton services. [2] It was short-lived, and consistent headways were restored. [1] In June 2018, Stagecoach introduced eleven new double-decker buses on the route. [3] [4]
Prior to 2011, the route operated on a half-hourly frequency with one bus per hour operated by Trent Barton and the other by Felix Bus Services. On 26 June 2011, Trentbarton added an additional bus per hour, increasing the frequency to every 20 minutes, including the fleet of buses now using Wright Solars instead of Optare Tempos. [2]
Wellglade was formed in 1986 when Brian King and Ian Morgan purchased Trent Buses from the National Bus Company in a management buyout. In 1989 the business of Barton Transport was purchased. [2] [3] In 1998 Wellglade purchased the Kinchbus business in Loughborough. In January 2010 TM Travel of Sheffield was purchased.
Trent Barton operate some local services around Nottingham and to other nearby towns such as Beeston, Mansfield and Derby. [23] The two operators are also frequent winners of the National Bus Operator of the Year award. NCT and Trent Barton have a good relationship and routes are designed so that they are not competing against each other.
Central Rivers TMD (also known as Barton-under-Needwood CMD [2]) is a railway maintenance depot, located in Barton-under-Needwood, 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Burton on Trent, England. It was built by Bombardier Transportation as the central maintenance facility for the Class 220 and 221 Voyagers then being delivered to Virgin CrossCountry .
The Trent Barton website has a graphical logo in all lower case (as is its logo for "Red Arrow"), but the name of the page is: "Trent Barton Bus Services in the UK", and the same is true of the titles for the other pages of the site. In the face of the inconsistency we should use the typogarphically standard version.
Trent Barton made changes with buses operating a single one-way loop around Spondon at a reduced frequency of every 15 minutes. [ 1 ] Due to low passenger numbers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , the service was temporarily suspended in January 2021 but was reinstated in March 2021, Due to driver shortages across the Trent Barton network ...