Skylink (bus service)

An old Nottingham Skylink run by Nottingham City Transport
Kinchbus Skylink leaves Derby bus station
Another Skylink bus leaving Arkwright Street North. Skylink operates out of Friar Lane in the city centre, and then travels to the Pegasus Business Park and East Midlands Airport. The livery has since changed, along with the buses on the route.

Skylink is the collective name of two separate routes servicing East Midlands Airport in Nottinghamshire 24 hours a day from the local towns and cities of Leicester, Loughborough, Coalville, Nottingham and Derby.

The two services (Leicester to Derby, and Coalville or Loughborough to Nottingham) are run by separate (but sister) companies: Kinchbus and Trent Barton.

The Skylink services operated by Kinchbus has been operating between Derby and Loughborough since 2008,[1] but was not extended to Leicester until the removal of the service by Arriva Fox County. The services run hourly[2] through the day and night via Kegworth, with an additional service running 30 minutes out of step via Diseworth and Long Whatton during the daytime.

The Skylink services operated by Trent Barton have run between Nottingham and Loughborough since March 2012, when they replaced the earlier 'Indigo' service. The service runs every twenty minutes during the day between Nottingham and East Midlands Airport, with an hourly extension to Loughborough.[3] Following a local petition,[4] an hourly service to Coalville and Shepshed was introduced in September 2015.[5] Through ticketing is available between Skylink and the Nottingham Express Transit tram system.[6]

A third service was introduced between Nottingham and East Midlands Airport in 2016; the coaches are in a white and grey livery, and are branded 'Skylink Express'. They run every thirty minutes. They go down the A453 via Clifton on a different route to the blue Skylink.

In 2017, trentbarton announced that it would be replacing the Wright Solars with ADL Enviro200 MMCs and Mercedes-Benz Citaros.

References

  1. ↑ New operator for Leicester Skylink Bus service UK airports information blog 17 March 2009
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013. Leicester to Derby Timetable
  3. ↑ https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/services/skylinknottingham Skylink Nottingham Timetable
  4. ↑ http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/petition-launched-skylink-stop-shepshed-8266019
  5. ↑ http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/new-skylink-daily-service-launches-10110684
  6. ↑ http://westbridgfordwire.com/joint-coach-tram-ticket-launched-to-the-airport/
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