Does anyone have information on the old semi-operator ''HinckleyBus''?

[Railmasterwest]

I have been coming up short on any information on Bustimes, the Hinckley past & present website and a lot of other sites. If you know even anything, routes, etc. Ty!

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

I have been coming up short on any information on Bustimes, the Hinckley past & present website and a lot of other sites. If you know even anything, routes, etc. Ty!

The Hinckley area operations were traditionally Midland Red and in the mid 1980s, represented the border area between Midland Red East (aka Midland Fox) and Midland Red South though predominantly Midland Fox who opened a small outstation in the town that developed into a larger depot. That was much the case until Midland Fox became part of Arriva before in the late 2000s, the depot and operations passed to Centrebus Holdings which was a business legally separate to Centrebus; it had the same livery but was owned 60% by Julian Peddle and 40% by Arriva, with operations in West Yorkshire too.

After a few years, Arriva elected to buy out Julian Peddle but they decided to keep the Hinckley depot as a low cost unit called Hinckley Bus. Some fleet even managed to transfer from Arriva to Centrebus to HI without losing Arriva colours!

 

[duncombec]

In terms of routes, you may find some information by snooping around on the Web Archive (which now seems to be back up, following it's recent DDOS attack): this random date in June 2016, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20160527022634/https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/hinckleybus/ (and the associated link to the actual site, https://web.archive.org/web/20160520010755/http://hinckleybus.co.uk/timetables)

 

[Railmasterwest]

Ah, thank you

In terms of routes, you may find some information by snooping around on the Web Archive (which now seems to be back up, following it's recent DDOS attack): this random date in June 2016, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20160527022634/https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/hinckleybus/ (and the associated link to the actual site, https://web.archive.org/web/20160520010755/http://hinckleybus.co.uk/timetables)

Ah, thank you very much! I tried it once, but didnt get far but i might've just done it wrong.

The Hinckley area operations were traditionally Midland Red and in the mid 1980s, represented the border area between Midland Red East (aka Midland Fox) and Midland Red South though predominantly Midland Fox who opened a small outstation in the town that developed into a larger depot. That was much the case until Midland Fox became part of Arriva before in the late 2000s, the depot and operations passed to Centrebus Holdings which was a business legally separate to Centrebus; it had the same livery but was owned 60% by Julian Peddle and 40% by Arriva, with operations in West Yorkshire too.

After a few years, Arriva elected to buy out Julian Peddle but they decided to keep the Hinckley depot as a low cost unit called Hinckley Bus. Some fleet even ma

I do also have an old 1968 Leicestershire bus timetable book, but sadly with the map ripped out. Midland Red did operate services, most went through Stony Stanton.

 

[Penfold@658]

Hinckley Bus Ran from September 2013-August 2019
They been at Barwell Depot since December 2013 at Present as Arriva Midlands

Hinckley Bus was at Jacknall Road before the move to Goose Lane Barwell 11 years ago next month