Skylink (bus service)

Skylink buses operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week on the Leicester/Derby and Nottingham routes.

Kinchbus have operated the service between Leicester and Derby since 2008. [1]

trentbarton have operated the service between Nottingham and Loughborough since March 2012 taking over the former Skylink route by Nottingham City Transport and the Loughborough extension of the Inidgo bus route and re-routing the service via Beeston and Long Eaton .

Following a local petition,[2] An hourly extension service to Coalville via Shepshed was introduced in September 2015.[3]

A third service is also operated by trentbarton which runs between Nottingham and East Midlands Airport called Skylink Express. This operates via Clifton Park and Ride and then directly to EMA along A453 Remembrance Way.

Although not a part of Skylink, trentbarton also operate hourly extensions to East Midlands Airport on their My15 route between Ilkeston and New Sawley. [4]

Skylink services are operated by a variety of vehicles with the Nottingham route using eleven Enviro200 MMCs, the Express Clifton route uses three Wright Solars.

The Leicester-Derby route run by Kinchbus currently operates with 11 Mercedes-Benz Citaros although they are due to be replaced in spring 2020 with a fleet of ADL Enviro200 MMCs due to reliability issues. [5] [6]