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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]
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.
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.
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]
Trent Barton operate 11 2017 Enviro200 MMCs on their Skylink Nottingham route while the Skylink Express services are currently using two 2004 Wright Solars which will be replaced by newer buses which are surplus from other Trent Barton services, including a 2009 Wright Eclipse Urban.
In early July 2022, Trent Barton announced that it would stop running route 141 in September. [2] However, later in the month it was announced that Nottinghamshire County Council would subsidise the service for a year and would tender the route with local bus operators. [3]