Locale Leicestershire Depots 4 Parent organization Arriva Midlands Founded 6 September 1981 | Service type Bus services Chief executive Simon Mathison Headquarters Thurmaston Fleet 200 | |
 | ||
Service area Leicester
Loughborough
Melton Mowbray
Coalville
Ashby de la Zouch
Burton upon Trent
Lutterworth
Hinckley
Nuneaton
Blaby
Market Harborough Website www.arrivabus.co.uk/Midlands | ||
Arriva Fox County is a bus company operating services in Leicestershire. It is a subsidiary of Arriva.
Contents
History
In September 1981 Midland Red East was formed with 181 buses operating from five depots in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire as part of the breakup of the Midland Red bus company, and in January 1984 was renamed Midland Fox. In 1987 it was privatised in a management buyout. Several smaller operators including Loughborough Bus & Coach Company were purchased and in 1989 it was sold to the Drawlane Group. In November 1992 it was sold to British Bus which in August 1996 was sold to the Cowie Group.
In September 1996 the Sandacre Street, Leicester depot closed. In November 1997 the Cowie Group was renamed Arriva and Midland Fox was rebranded as Arriva Fox County. In 2003 Arriva Fox County merged with Arriva Derby and Arriva Midland North to form Arriva Midlands.
On 11 July 2009 the Southgates depot closed and then on 3 October 2011 the Thurmaston depot and head office moved to a new purpose built depot.
Arriva Fox County operated services around the Hinckley area until August 26th 2008 when the operations were sold to Centrebus Holdings, a joint venture between Centrebus and Arriva. In September 9th 2013, Arriva took full control of Centrebus Holdings including the Hinckley depot, with the operation now trading as HinckleyBus.
Services
Arriva operate most of their services around Leicester from either Haymarket or St Margaret's Bus Stations with a number of services operating from on-street stops within the city centre.
Depots
Arriva Fox County operate four depots in Hinckley for HinckleyBus services, Hugglescote for Coalville services (shared with Roberts Coaches), South Wigston and Thurmaston.
Fleet
As at March 2014 the fleet consisted of 200+ vehicles.