w 53.456000 n 2.589500 w 53.456000 ; 2.589500 cumfybus ltd optare solo in queen square bus station in june 2014 parent marshall & patricia vickers founded 1986 headquarters southport service area merseyside greater manchester service type bus services routes 32 october 2013 depots 5 fleet 80 september 2013 fuel type diesel diesel electric hybrid website www.cumfybus.co.uk optare alero in birkenhead in august 2007 optare solo hybrid in liverpool in march 2013 cumfybus 1 is a bus company based in southport merseyside . 2 its operations were small scale throughout the 1990s but it has expanded significantly since its incorporation as a limited company in 2002 and in 2010 had a fleet of nearly 100 buses . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 fleet 4 hybrid buses 5 livery 6 depots 7 see also 8 references 9 external links history edit cumfybus was founded in 1986 by marshall and patricia vickers when a minibus was purchased to service nursing homes in southport . 3 in july 2013 cumfybus opened a depot in bolton following it being awarded 10 routes by transport for greater manchester in the wake of the collapse of maytree travel . 4 operations edit cumfybus operates numerous commercial and tendered local services throughout merseyside and in parts of greater manchester ; it has also previously operated services in parts of lancashire . 5 a few school and college services are also operated . the company also operates merseylink accessible dial a ride services on behalf of merseytravel using optare aleros . as at september 2013 it operated 32 routes . 6 fleet edit as at september 2013 the fleet consisted of 80 buses predominantly optare solos . 7 hybrid buses edit diesel electric hybrid buses were introduced for the liverpool city centre citylink c1 c5 routes in may 2012 . 8 these came in the form of 13 hybrid optare solos of the original design not sr . these look very similar to the yellow solos that they replace but they have the extra box on the roof which houses all the electrical equipment . livery edit the standard fleet livery is all over yellow with multi coloured fleet names . a few vehicles carry other liveries including white silver or overall advertisements . depots edit cumfybus operate depots in aintree moreton wirral bolton and southport . 2 see also edit list of bus operators of the united kingdom references edit companies house extract company no 4458742 cumfybus limited a b operator licence details . vosa website . retrieved 21 october 2013 . cumfybus expand bus & coach buyer 1 august 2013 20 new jobs created as cumfybus replaces maytree bolton news 30 july 2013 fylde villager exit cumfybus enter classic bus stagecoach and preston bus . fylde bus blog . retrieved 6 december 2013 . cumfybus routes cumfybus lancashire independents north west buses greener buses arrive in liverpool . merseytravel website . retrieved 28 may 2012 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to cumfybus . cumfybus website cumfybus merseyside dennis dart website v t e bus companies operating in north west england cheshire arriva north west d & g bus halton transport network warrington stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire cumbria mountain goat stagecoach cumbria & north lancashire greater manchester arriva north west bullocks coaches diamond bus north west first greater manchester jim stones coaches manchester community transport rosso stagecoach manchester & wigan stotts lancashire arriva north west blackburn bus company blackpool transport blue bus of penwortham john fishwick & sons pilkingtons buses preston bus preston park and ride rosso stagecoach cumbria & north lancashire stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire transdev in burnley & pendle merseyside arriva north west avon buses cumfybus htl buses stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire the green bus isle of man bus vannin national megabus national express retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cumfybus & oldid 727990761 categories bus operators in merseyside1986 establishments in the united kingdomcompanies established in 1986hidden categories coordinates not on wikidatause dmy dates from april 2014commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 2 july 2016 at 11 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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