Premiere Travel was a bus company in

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History

Premiere bus (T417 KAG), 30 January 2010

Premiere Travel commenced trading in 2003 with a pair of ex

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s working school contracts. The company expanded in to the coach hire, day excursion and holiday business, as well as picking up council tenders to operate stage carriage services. It then moved into wholly commercial stage carriage services, starting with running its buses in service to and from the Bingham schools to avoid dead mileages on school contracts. These were built up to Bingham,

Hucknall Hucknall, formerly Hucknall Torkard, is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies 7 miles north of Nottingham, 7 miles south-east of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles from Mansfield and 10 miles south of Sutton-i ...

Long Eaton Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, just north of the River Trent, about south-west of Nottingham and some 8½ miles (13.7 km) south-east of Derby. The town population was 37,760 at the 2011 census. It has ...

amongst other places, competing in the main with the established operator,

Trentbarton Trentbarton operates both local and regional bus services in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire, England. It is a subsidiary of the Wellglade Group. History In October 1913, Trent Motor Traction Company was foun ...

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sold the bus and private hire coach operations of

Dunn-Line Dunn-Line was a bus operator based in Nottingham, England, with services throughout Nottinghamshire operated from depots in Nottingham and Tuxford. The company also had a presence in the Lincoln area, largely through County Council contracted op ...

, its

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based subsidiary, to Premiere Travel from January 2011, along with between thirty and forty vehicles. On 24 January 2013, the company was placed in administration. All bus services ceased at around 5pm the following day after a buyer for the business could not be found.Staff and passengers left in lurch as Premiere Travel folds
''Nottingham Post'' 26 January 2013 Local operators

and

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announced that they would be putting in place special measures to ensure Premiere customers could continue to use their tickets and the relevant Trentbarton and Nottingham City Transport services.

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based Kinchbus announced via their Facebook page that it would be reinstating their number 9 service between

and Nottingham from 26 January and would also accept Premiere's tickets for free on their new service for a limited time. Following the collapse of Premiere, over 200 staff were made redundant but a number of former Premiere employees were taken on by

Yourbus Yourbus (stylised ‘yourbus’) was a bus operator in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It ran commercial and tendered local bus services from its base in Heanor. United Kingdom History Yourbus was founded by former Dunn-Line managing directo ...

(Now also ceased operations themselves on 3 October 2019) who had gained the UniHopper contracts from

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along with the majority of Premiere's

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work both of which Premiere had gained in early 2011.

Fleet

When the company ceased operating in January 2013, Premiere Travel operated around 80 buses and coaches.Report of the Service Director Transport, Property & Environment
Nottingham County Council February 2013

References

External links

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Premiere Travel - Web ArchiveFlickr gallery
{{Defunct British Bus Companies 2002 establishments in England 2013 disestablishments in England Former bus operators in Nottinghamshire