Associated Companies
See also: Kinchbus and Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire tractiontrent barton's holding company, Wellglade, also owns a number of other East Midlands bus operators - Kinchbus, Notts & Derby, Midland General, Derby Community Transport and T M Travel. Notts & Derby and Midland General are revivals of old bus operators' names.
Kinchbus is based in Loughborough and was formerly an independent company established by Gilbert Kinch and better known for coach operations than stage carriage. It operates various local services around Loughborough, Route 2 from Leicester to Loughborough and Skylink from Derby to Loughborough and Leicester, via East Midlands Airport. It has a fleet of about fifty buses, (although their entry in Leicestershire Bus Web lists 44 vehicles).
Notts & Derby is a bus operator, operating mainly subsidised services under contract to Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire county councils. It also operates services to the University of Derby's campuses in Derby and Buxton under the Unibus brand. Notts & Derby uses trent barton depots for its vehicles which are mainly former trent barton buses e.g. Paladins, Excels and now some Solos. They also operate double deckers from Lothian for school contracts. Up until recently, they operated C723NNN (Leyland Olympian/ECW) which was the last bus bought by Trent when it was part of NBC. This has since been withdrawn and will be sold by auction in July
Derby Community Transport provides specialized transport for disabled passengers and was originally an independent operation based at Trent's Meadow Road depot.
From 7 January 2010 Wellglade took control of TM Travel, based at Halfway, near Sheffield. This brought over 100 additional vehicles into the Wellglade fleet.
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