Wellglade Group
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| Parent | Brian King Ian Morgan Graham Sutton |
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| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Heanor |
| Service area |
Derbyshire Leicestershire Nottinghamshire Staffordshire South Yorkshire |
| Service type | Bus, coach & tram services |
| Fleet | circa 500 buses 37 trams |
| Operator | Derby Community Transport First Leicester 6% High Peak Buses 50% Kinchbus Midland General Nottingham Express Transit Notts & Derby TM Travel Trentbarton |
The Wellglade Group is a transport group operating bus services in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and South Yorkshire, and the Nottingham Express Transit tram system in Nottingham.
Wellglade was formed in 1986 when Brian King and Ian Morgan purchased Trent Buses from the National Bus Company in a management buyout. In 1989 the business of Barton Transport was purchased.
In 1998 Wellglade purchased the Kinchbus business in Loughborough. In January 2010 TM Travel of Sheffield was purchased. In January 2012 Wellglade purchased Felix Bus Services.
In December 2011 Tramlink Nottingham took over the running of the Nottingham Express Transit tram network. In April 2012 Centrebus Bowers Coaches operation and services operated from the Dove Holes depot of Wellglade's Trentbarton were combined to form High Peak Buses.
Trentbarton operates services from Bakewell in the north to Loughborough in the south as well as Ashbourne, Burton upon Trent, Chesterfield, Derby, Ilkeston, Mansfield, and Nottingham. It was formed when the Trent Buses and Barton Transport operations were merged. Trentbarton mainatins a 6% shareholding in First Leicester.
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