Arriva Leicester

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Arriva Leicester

A Arriva East Lancs Myllennium Lowlander.
Headquarters	Norman Road, Thurmaston, Leicestershire
Service area	Leicester, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Coalville, Ashby de la Zouch, Burton upon Trent, Lutterworth, Hinckley, Nuneaton, Blaby, Market Harborough
Service type	Urban and interurban bus services
Operator	Arriva
Web site	www.arrivabus.co.uk

Arriva Leicester is a bus company operating in Leicester and Leicestershire. It is part of Arriva Midlands.

History

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Arriva Leicester was formed in 1981, as Midland Red East with the breakup of the old Midland Red bus company, and then became known as Midland Fox in 1984.

In September 1996 the Leicester Sandacre Street depot closed^[1], and then on 11 July 2009 the Southgates depot closed. On 3 October 2011 the Thurmaston depot and head office moved to a new purpose built depot.^[2]

Fleet

In late 2006, a new "Leicester Linx" brand was introduced for services in Leicester. By mid 2010, although the branding is evident on some vehicles the brand has been largely dropped due to a nationalisation of Arriva's website and standard national fleet. New vehicles introduced in 2009 were in standard Arriva livery and a reorganisation of the fleet in the Arriva Midlands group during 2010, saw a number of East Lancs Myllennium Lowlander brought to Leicester in standard Arriva livery to complement the small number already in Leicester. A number of Leicester Linx branded Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles purchased in 2006 as part of operation overdrive have been moved to the Thurmaston depot. During 2011 some of the East Lancs Myllennium Lowlanders, Dennis Darts and ALX200s were repainted and their seating was updated into the standard arriva livery.^{[citation needed]}

Most of the fleet is now low floor. The current buses in use are: Dennis Dart SLF, Optare Solo, Optare Solo SR, Optare Versa, Alexander ALX200, DAF DB250 Alexander ALX400, East Lancs Myllennium Lowlander, Wright Commander, Wright Eclipse Gemini, Wright Eclipse Urban, Volvo Olympian and Mercedes-Benz Citaro.

Depots

There are three depots located in Thurmaston, South Wigston and Hugglescote, the Thurmaston depot is also the headquarters for Arriva Midlands.

Routes

Arriva run services across the Leicester area plus services to/from Loughborough, Coalville, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Ashby de la Zouch and Burton upon Trent.

In Leicester, Arriva run most of its services from St Margaret's Bus Station with some journeys commencing/terminating in Charles Street. Other bus services use the Haymarket Bus Station, Haymarket/Causeway Lane or Humberstone Gate as their main city centre stops.

Arriva run the following services in the Leicester and Leicestershire area:

PlusBus

Arriva Leicester participate in the Plusbus scheme. Plusbus tickets are available from Leicester railway station.

See also

• List of bus operators of the United Kingdom

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Arriva Fox County

• Arriva UK bus official site

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