Go Whippet

Plaxton President bodied Dennis Trident 2 at St Ives bus station in May 2012
Slogan	The community's local bus company
Parent	Transit Systems
Founded	1919
Headquarters	Swavesey
Service area	Cambridgeshire
Service type	Bus services
Destinations	Cambridge Huntingdon Peterborough St Ives St Neots
Website	www.go-whippet.co.uk

Go Whippet is a bus operator based in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. It is a subsidiary of Transit Systems.

Whippet Coaches was founded in Huntingdonshire by bicycle salesman Henry Lee in 1919. The first Whippet coach was converted from an American ambulance.

Originally based in the village of Hilton, they moved into a depot at Fenstanton in 1977. In 2009 the company sold these buildings to Stagecoach in The Fens and moved to a depot at Swavesey. In November 2014, the family business was sold to Transit Systems.

Whippet used to operate some summer only services to the coast. These have been running in various forms from 1957 up to 2013, and ultimately served Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea.

Go Whippet has a fleet of over 50 vehicles, a mixture of single and double deck buses with around eight coaches. Local buses are run throughout north Cambridgeshire, including town services in St Neots, and the company also operates a number of school and college contracts.

In 2014 it became a contractor for the National Express as well, and in 2016 also for the University of Cambridge's Universal service. It also used to operate Tesco Bar Hill Free buses but Tesco stopped funding them and they stopped operating.

Whippet Coaches now operate National Express routes:

Since 7 August 2011 Whippet has operated service C on Cambridgeshire Guided Busway from Somersham to Cambridge city centre on the section between St Ives and the Cambridge Science Park. This is being run in conjunction with Stagecoach in the Fens (who run routes A and B) who jointly with Go Whippet have exclusive use of the route for a period of five years in exchange for providing a minimum service frequency between the times of 07:00 and 19:00 each week day. Whippet spent a total of £420,000 on three Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLE buses that have been sold since and replaced by four Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLEs.