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Arriva Trains Merseyside [1] was a train operating company in England owned by Arriva that operated the Merseyrail Electrics franchise from January 1997 until July 2003, when the Merseyrail railway franchise was transformed into the local Merseyrail concession, owned by the Merseyrail Passenger Transport Executive (Merseytravel).
ArrivaClick is a demand responsive transport service operated by Arriva UK Bus. Passengers book and pay for journeys via a smartphone app, [ 2 ] which then matches passengers traveling between similar points, calculating an ad hoc route to the destinations required.
Hughes DAF was rebranded to Arriva Bus & Coach in 1998 and is now the main dealer for Temsa and Van Hool. [166] coaches in the UK as well as more recently Ilesbus. [167] In June 2020, it was announced the company would restructure to significantly downsize. [164] During January 2021, it was announced Arriva Bus & Coach would close on 31 March 2021.
In 1996, British Bus was bought by the Cowie Group. [7] [8] In November 1997 Cowie was rebranded as Arriva with North Western becoming Arriva North West in 1998. In February 2000, Arriva North West purchased MTL Trust Holdings, which created a larger presence in the Merseyside area and more than doubled the size of the company.
Merseytravel acts as the responsible authority for the planning and commissioning of local bus services in Liverpool and throughout the wider Merseyside area. [4] Currently, Arriva and Stagecoach provide the vast majority of local bus services within the city, with a number of smaller operators providing specific routes where there is a defined public need. [5]
MTL Trust Holdings was an English bus, coach and train operator based in Liverpool, Merseyside.MTL was originally part of the MPTE.To comply with the Transport Act 1985, the bus operations were divested into a new independent company, Merseyside Transport Limited (MTL).
As of September 2024, the two largest bus operators within the boundaries of the Liverpool City Region are Arriva Merseyside, who purchased MTL Trust Holdings in 2000, and Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire, who purchased Gillmoss-based Glenvale Transport in 2005. A small number of independently-owned bus operators, such as Aintree ...
Operation Overdrive is the name of a series of improvement programmes carried out by Arriva in their UK bus operations. The original Operation Overdrive was done by Arriva Southern Counties in the Medway Towns in 2004, with further operations occurring in Maidstone (), Merseyside, Leicestershire, County Durham, and Southend-on-Sea ().