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| Headquarters | Abbey Lane, Leicester |
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| Service area | Leicester |
| Service type | Urban and interurban bus services |
| Web site | Official Website |
First in Leicester is the trading name of Leicester Citybus Ltd., a bus company owned by the First Group. It runs buses in the city of Leicester, England. It is managed as part of First Midlands which also looks after the First bus services in Northampton and Worcestershire.
History[]
DBC 190C A preserved 1964 Leicester City Transport AEC Renown bus
First in Leicester is the descendant of the former municipal bus operations of Leicester City Council, Leicester City Transport (itself descended from Leicester Corporation Tramways. Under bus deregulation in 1986, the council operation was incorporated as the council owned but arms length private company, Leicester Citybus Ltd.. This was sold in November 1993 to the emerging private UK bus group, the Grampian Regional TransportGRT Group (this was shortly after the nearby Northampton municipal operator had also been bought by GRT). The GRT group later became FirstGroup, with the operations in Leicester subsequently being rebranded as First Leicester in the white First corporate livery.
Liveries[]
Leicester City Transport buses wore an allover cream livery with horizontal red stripes.[1] On creation of the arms length company Leicester Citybus, buses began to wear a livery with more red, becoming a two tone cream and red scheme, and wore fleetnames of simply CityBus.[2] Upon the takeover by GRT, the Leicester Citybus fleet began to wear a version of the GRT corporate livery, with the base and relief colours associated with Leicester City municipal buses, but in the corporate GRT arrangement, with Leicester citybus fleetnames and a spire motif.[3] As with other GRT companies, upon First rebranding the livery remained for a while, but the fleetnames were reapplied in the First corporate typeface accompanied by the flying 'f' motif, before the launch of the white First corporate livery replaced this scheme.
Depot[]
In 2007, a new depot opened on Abbey Lane replacing the former premises on Abbey Park Road which go back to the company's municipal heritage, and was originally a tram depot. This site has now been demolished and is pending redevelopment.
Fleet[]
The First in Leicester fleet of 110 buses is completely low floor[4]
The current bus types in use are:
- ALX400
- Wright Solar
- Volvo B7L
- Wright Eclipse Gemini
Services[]
City Centre[]
Services use Haymarket Bus Station or other on street city centre stops, but do not use St Margaret's Bus Station which is used by longer distance services. Services 22 and 54 stop at Leicester railway station.
Network[]
Services run to Glenfield, Kirby Frith, Braunstone Frith, Glenfield Hospital, Braunstone, Eyres Monsell, Evington, Leicester General Hospital, Goodwood, Netherhall, Thurnby Lodge, Hamilton, Thurmaston, Rushey Mead, Mowmacre Hill, Beaumont Shopping Centre, Beaumont Leys, Anstey, Highfields and New Parks.
List of routes[]
First in Leicester operate a number of services around Leicester:
| Service | From | To | Via |
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| 12 | City Centre | Kirby Frith (Ryder Road) | Glenfield Road, Liberty Road & Braunstone Frith (Park Rise) |
| 14 | City Centre | Kirby Frith (Ryder Road) | Woodgate, Aikman Avenue, Charnor Road & Tournament Road |
| 14A | Beaumont Leys | Woodgate, Aikman Avenue & Glenfield Hospital | |
| 16 | City Centre | Leicester General Hospital | Swain Street, St Peters Road & Gedding Road |
| 17 | City Centre | City Centre | Swain Street, Highfields (Melbourne Road) & Humberstone Road |
| 18 | City Centre | Braunstone (Peverel Road) | Braunstone Gate, Hinckley Road & Cort Crescent |
| 21 | City Centre | Thurmaston (Blount Road) | St Matthew's, Catherine Street & Barkby Road |
| 21A | Hamilton Lane | St Matthew's, Catherine Street, Barkby Road, Northfields, Sandhills Avenue & Hamilton (Tesco) | |
| 22 | Evington (Downing Drive) | Rushey Mead (Nicklaus Road) | Evington Drive, Railway Station, City Centre, Melton Road & Gleneagles Avenue |
| 25 | City Centre | City Centre | Belgrave Road, Mowmacre Hill, Astill Lodge Road, Beaumont Leys & Abbey Park Road |
| 26 | Abbey Park Road, Beaumont Leys, Astill Lodge Road, Mowmacre Hill & Belgrave Road | ||
| 38 | City Centre | City Centre | Humberstone Road, Humberstone Park, Humberstone, Nether Hall, Thurnby Lodge & Dudley Avenue |
| 38A | Humberstone Road, Humberstone Park, Dudley Avenue, Thurnby Lodge, Nether Hall & Humberstone | ||
| 54 | Beaumont Leys | Goodwood (Walshe Road) | Stocking Farm, Abbey Lane, City Centre, Railway Station & East Park Road |
| 70 | City Centre | Braunstone (Blackmore Drive) | Braunstone Gate, Narborough Road & Imperial Avenue |
| 74 | City Centre | Anstey (Hollow Road) | Anstey Lane, Calver Hey Road & Beaumont Leys |
| 88 | City Centre | Eyres Monsell (Monmouth Drive) | Leicester Royal Infirmary, Freemen's Park, Saffron Lane & Pasley Road |
| 88A | Saffron Cross Roads | Leicester Royal Infirmary, Freemen's Park, Saffron Lane & The Fairway | |
| 94 | City Centre | Glenfield (The Square) | Woodgate, Stephenson Drive, Charnor Road & Dominion Road |
Plusbus[]
First in Leicester participate in the Plusbus scheme. Plusbus tickets are available from Leicester Railway Station.
See also[]
References[]
External links[]
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- First Leicester website
- First Leicester Network Map
- The Leicester Transport Heritage Trust
- First Leicester official twitter
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