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First Travel Solutions [1] is a bus and coach operator in Great Britain. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup . [ 2 ] It provides managed passenger transport from single vehicle operation to hundreds of buses and coaches for sporting and cultural events.
Grampian Regional Transport was one of the first UK users of articulated buses, taking delivery of a single 17.6 metres (58 ft) Alexander-bodied articulated Mercedes-Benz O405G in November 1992. [7] Aberdeen is one of the major locations for articulated buses in the United Kingdom with around 35 in the fleet in December 2013.
A First Glasgow Volvo Ailsa B55 in Bridgeton in 2005. First Glasgow was created through FirstGroup's buyout of Strathclyde Buses (created from the former Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive bus fleet, formerly the municipal Glasgow Corporation Transport), which had itself recently bought out the former Kelvin Central Buses (an amalgamation of Kelvin Scottish and Central Scottish ...
In London, a variety of companies run buses under contract to London Buses. They are: companies owned by three of the 'Big Five': Arriva London; Go-Ahead London (London Central, London General, Blue Triangle, Docklands Buses) Stagecoach London (East London, Selkent, Thameside) companies owned by other groups: Transport UK Group (Transport UK ...
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First South Yorkshire vehicles operate from two depots. These are Olive Grove in Sheffield, and Leger Way in Doncaster. Sheffield's Olive Grove depot is the second biggest bus depot in the UK after First Glasgow's Caledonia depot, which can hold 450 buses. [citation needed] As of May 2017, 318 buses are based at Olive Grove depot. [17] [needs ...
A line-up of First Great Western trains at Plymouth in 2018. During December 1997, the company was renamed FirstGroup. [2] This change was due to the company's entry in February 1996 into Britain's recently privatised railways, having a 24.5% shareholding in Great Western Holdings that won the Great Western and North Western franchises, and a 100% shareholding in First Great Eastern that ran ...
This service was the first commercially-run guided bus system to be operated in the United Kingdom, [28] [29] and would eventually be upgraded to use double-decker buses under FirstBus. Having previously operated Ipswich's park and ride service from 2008 until November 2013, in July 2017, First Ipswich resumed operating the service.