the really good bus company parent wellglade group founded october 1913 headquarters heanor locale nottinghamshire derbyshire leicestershire service area derbyshire leicestershire nottinghamshire staffordshire service type bus services hubs nottingham and derby depots 5 fleet 277 november 2011 chief executive jeff counsell website www.trentbarton.co.uk trent barton stylised as trentbarton is a bus operator based in heanor derbyshire . it is a subsidiary of the wellglade group contents 1 history 2 services 2.1 high peak buses 3 ticketing schemes 4 fleet 5 depot 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit preserved leyland national in trent motor traction comnpany livery barton plaxton supreme bodied leyland leopard in 1993 optare excel at stockport bus station in august 2006 wright solar bodied scania l94ub in september 2004 in october 1913 trent motor traction company 1 was founded and commenced operating a bus service between derby and ashbourne . in november 1913 a second service commenced to stapleford . by 1925 services were operating from derby loughborough and nottingham . as services expanded the business grew to seven depots . 2 during the 1930s some 52 smaller operators were bought out . in august 1949 trent motor traction company began to operate some services in partnership with derby corporation . in 1958 following the opening of the a52 an express service commenced between derby and nottingham . in 1969 the company became part of the national bus company . 2 as part of the privatisation of the bus industry trent was sold in a management buyout . in 1989 the business of neighbouring barton transport was purchased and placed into a separate legal entity 3 even though both subsidiaries combined their operations on a day to day basis . the separate trent and barton brands were brought together as trentbarton in 2005 . 2 trentbarton maintains a 6 % shareholding in first leicester . 4 5 services edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message trentbarton operate services from loughborough ashbourne burton upon trent chesterfield derby ilkeston mansfield and nottingham . most of the routes are branded with their own bus livery and name with the route brand name registered as the service number . a set of services were originally branded rainbow but the rainbow brand has been dropped from four of the five services ; they are a group of frequent high density services radiating from nottingham to its outer suburbs from every 6 12 mins . many brands are unique however there are some brands which are similar to those of other operators . on 24 july 2011 indigo became the uk s first 24 hours a day 7 days a week commercial bus service and up until march 2012 it operated to east midlands airport and loughborough when that section of the route was replaced by a revised skylink nottingham service which provides buses up to every 20 minutes to east midlands airport skylink also offers fast journeys between long eaton and nottingham avoiding beeston bus station as well as continuing on from the airport to loughborough hourly through the day monday saturday . the company runs connection services from nottingham to the suburbs of calverton cotgrave and keyworth . a number of routes combined under the rushcliffe mainline and rushcliffe villager service labels bingham and radcliffe on trent and other nearby villages . in derby trentbarton run some urban services such as the non stop spondon flyer service and the mickleover and the allestree . there are also a number of longer distance services for example swift to uttoxeter and the sixes to belper and matlock with their unusual numbering system 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 and 6.x . the villager services run south to burton on trent with the numbering system v1 v2 v3 and v4 and a number of services run north towards ilkeston and heanor such as the black cat and h1 . trentbarton also operate a number of express services around the east midlands . these include red arrow service from nottingham to derby . pronto operated jointly with stagecoach from nottingham to mansfield and chesterfield x38 operated jointly with arriva derby from derby to burton on trent many of the more popular services within the network operate through to around 03 00 on saturday and sunday mornings . high peak buses edit main article high peak buses in april 2012 trentbarton entered a 50 50 joint venture with centrebus . this saw trentbarton s buxton operation combined with bowers coaches to form high peak buses . 6 7 8 the new company operates all services previously run by bowers coaches and the buxton division of trentbarton including the skyline 199 service from buxton to stockport and manchester airport and transpeak from derby belper matlock bakewell buxton and stockport to manchester . the service no longer serves nottingham this portion of route being removed in late 2011 . ticketing schemes edit in june 2008 trentbarton introduced mango a prepaid touchless smartcard system developed in partnership with init . the system works by having an rfid smartcard with the user touching on at the start of their journey and touching off at the end . this allows for exact fare pricing as your price is calculated by the gps position of the bus . users of the mango card pay 15 % less than the normal cash single fare for their journey . the mango system was initially tested on the company s rainbow 4 now i4 and indigo routes . after this proved successful trentbarton proceeded to extend the scheme to all of its services . 9 10 fleet edit as at november 2012 the fleet consisted of 277 buses . 11 the company operate a fleet of modern low floor vehicles most of the fleet is branded for services although a number of buses are in a red livery with various advertisements advertising trentbarton products such as their mango smart card zigzag tickets and social media websites . depot edit trentbarton operate out of depots in belper derby langley mill nottingham and sutton in ashfield . see also edit list of bus operators of the united kingdom references edit companies house extract company no 131912 traction motor traction company limited a b c history trentbarton companies house extract company no 2347412 barton buses limited government approves 19th bus sale of leicester citybus ltd local government chronicle 15 november 1993 firstgroup annual report march 2013 firstgroup companies house extract company no 7623806 high peak buses limited wellglade centrebus join up in buxton busandcoach.com 24 may 2011 new bus operator hits the road trentbarton trent barton starts rollout with integrated solution init june 2008 bus heartbeats busandcoach com 12 december 2012 the wellgrade group fleetlist derby bus depot external links edit media related to trentbarton at wikimedia commons 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