High Peak Buses
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.jpg) A High Peak branded Optare Solo SR. | |
| Parent | Centrebus (50%) Trent Barton (50%) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1 April 2012 |
| Headquarters | Dove Holes |
| Service area | Derbyshire Greater Manchester High Peak |
| Service type | Bus services |
| Destinations | Ashbourne, Buxton, Derby, Glossop, Hyde, Macclesfield, Manchester, Manchester Airport, Marple, Stockport |
| Depots | 1 |
| Fleet | 48 |
| Website | www |
High Peak Buses Limited is a bus company based in Dove Holes, Derbyshire, formed in 2012.[1] It operates a mixture of local and long-distance commercial and subsidised public bus services in and around the Borough of High Peak, after which it is named.
History
In April 2012 Centrebus and Wellglade Group entered a 50/50 joint venture. This saw Bowers Coaches and Trentbarton's Buxton operations combined based at the latter's Dove Holes depot.[2][3]
Included were the Skyline 199 service from Buxton to Stockport and Manchester Airport and Transpeak from Nottingham through Derby to Manchester.[4][5] It has a fleet of 50 vehicles, which operates from the former Trent Barton depot at Dove Holes, and employs around 100 people.[6]
Most of the fleet has the standard blue and orange corporate Centrebus livery, although Skyline199 and Transpeak use branded vehicles, Skyline has two-tone red Mercedes-Benz Citaros and TransPeak uses green Enviro200s and Scania Omnicities. [7]
Services
High Peak operates all services previously run by Bowers Coaches and the Buxton division of Trentbarton,[2] including:
- Skyline 199 service from Buxton to Stockport and Manchester Airport
- Transpeak from Derby, Belper, Matlock, Bakewell and Buxton.
- Other local services serve Glossop, New Mills, Whaley Bridge, Ashbourne and Marple.[8]
References
- ^ Companies House extract company no 7623806 High Peak Buses Limited
- ^ a b Wellglade/Centrebus join up in Buxton Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine busandcoach.com 24 May 2011
- ^ New bus operator hits the road Trentbarton
- ^ "trent barton – news". Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ "The High Peak bus company. Trents Dove Holes and Bowers operations set to merge". Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ "New High Peak bus company following merger". Buxton Advertiser. Archived from the original on 28 May 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ http://www.derbybusdepot.co.uk/bowers.html
- ^ "Timetables". Highpeakbuses.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.