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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 February 2020, Trent Barton withdrew from the route, leaving Stagecoach East Midlands as the sole operator. [5] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mansfield-Nottingham section of the route was temporarily reduced from every 10 minutes to every 15 minutes in 2021, though the change has since been reversed in September 2024. [citation needed]
Trent Barton manages the bus station's travel shop and operates routes to Queen's Medical Centre, Derby, Hucknall, Mansfield and Chesterfield. Stagecoach provides routes to Sherwood Forest, Mansfield and Chesterfield. Nottingham City Transport's routes call at nearby stops on Milton Street. [25]
Although not a part of Skylink brand, trentbarton also operate half-hourly extensions to East Midlands Airport on their My15 route between Ilkeston and New Sawley, while Diamond East Midlands extended their service AirLine 9 to East Midlands Airport in 2019, connecting the airport with Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Swadlincote and Burton-upon-Trent..
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 ]
East Midlands Railway operate a few services per day from Langley Mill southbound to Nottingham and beyond (usually Norwich) and northbound to Sheffield (usually continuing to Liverpool Lime Street). Buses that serve Langley Mill are Rainbow 1, 33, 34 and others that can be found on the Trent Barton website.
During 2020, Kinchbus upgraded services 11/12 with Optare Versas which were transferred from Trent Barton and replaced Optare Tempos which were used on the service since new in 2007. As a result of the now-abandoned Leicester clean air zone, the Skylink fleet was also upgraded with 12 new Enviro200 MMCs which replaced a fleet of eleven Mercedes ...
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 ...