FirstGroup

FirstGroup is a transport organisation that operates both buses and rail across the United Kingdom. They are based in Aberdeen, Scotland.Companies House extract company no SC157176 FirstGroup plc

Major rail operations from past and present include First Great Western, First Capital Connect among others

Current operating businesses
Current operating businesses include:

First Bus
In September 2022 First Bus was reorganised as follows:

United Kingdom

Scotland
 First Aberdeen (formerly First Grampian)
 King Coaches (formerly First Aberdeen Coach Hire and Grampian Executive)
 First Glasgow (formerly First Kelvin and First Greater Glasgow)

East of England
 First bus East of England konectbus Simonds Central Connect bus Flagfinders
 First Essex (formerly First East of England National, First Thamesway)

Manchester, Midlands and South Yorkshire
 First South Yorkshire & Midlands
 First Leicester (Leicester Electric) (Formerly Leicester city bus, Leicester corporation transport)
 Aircoach(Leicester to Birmingham Airport)
 East Midlands Airport Carpark shuttles (First Leicester)
 First Greater Manchester (Bee Network)
 First Potteries (operating in Staffordshire and South Cheshire, formerly First PMT/PMT Limited) 
 First South Yorkshire (formerly First Mainline)

North and West Yorkshire
 First West Yorkshire
 First Bradford
 First Halifax, Calder Valley & Huddersfield
 First Leeds (Leeds Electric)
 First York (including the York Park & Ride)

South and South West England
 First South West (formerly First Devon & Cornwall)
 Kernow
 Buses of Somerset
 First Beeline (formerly First Berkshire & The Thames Valley)
 First Hampshire & Dorset
 Truronian

Wales and West of England
 First West of England (formerly First Bristol & First Somerset & Avon)
 First Worcestershire (sometimes referred to as First Wyvern)
 First Cymru

Other operations
 First Travel Solutions re-branded 2016 (formerly First Rail Support) which provides emergency and planned rail replacement transport to train operating companies using First and non-First Transport through its 24-hour control room in Clayton-le-moors Lancashire.
 First Tram operations (Tramlink) Taken over by First Group in 2017 it deals with one of the two Lite rail networks in greater London.
 Specialist Passenger Solutions
 Ensignbus
 York Pullman
 Lakeside Group
 Anderson Travel

 Ireland 
 Aircoach
 Matthews Coach Hire

First Rail
United Kingdom
 Avanti West Coast (70% shareholding)
 First Rail Stirling (former part of Grand Union)
 Great Western Railway
 Hull Trains
 London Tramlink
 Lumo
 South Western Railway (70% shareholding)
 IFS Cloud Cable Car operated on behalf of TfL

Former operating companies

Bus and coach

Canada
 Greyhound Canada (intercity bus services)
Grey Goose Bus Lines
Vancouver Island Coach Lines
Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines
First Student (school, charter bus and public transit services)
HandyDART Contract to TransLink (British Columbia) for accessible transit service in Metro Vancouver

Germany
 FirstGroup Rhein-Neckar sold September 2011 to Marwyn European Transport

Hong Kong
 New World First Bus 26% stake sold May 2000 to New World Development

United Kingdom
 First Chester & The Wirral sold to Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire in January 2013
 First Northampton ceased 14 September 2013
 First Scotland East (formerly First SMT, First Borders and First Midland Bluebird) sold to McGills in September 2022
 First London from March 1997 until September 2013, most operations sold to Go-Ahead London, Metroline and Tower Transit, remainder ceased upon expiry of contracts in September 2013
 Greyhound UK coach services between September 2009 and December 2015
 First Borders (formerly Lowland Scottish and part of the wider First Scotland East group) sold to West Coast Motors, trading as Borders Buses, on 26 March 2017.
 First Southampton (also known as First Cityred) ceased trading on 18 February 2023.

United States
 Greyhound Lines (intercity bus services)
BoltBus (a discount operator competing with Megabus)
 First Vehicle Services, which maintained vehicles for many corporations, organizations and local governments, including the other First divisions.
 First Student, sold in 2021
 First Transit, sold in 2021

Rail
United Kingdom
 First Great Eastern from January 1997 until April 2004, incorporated into Greater Anglia franchise subsequently operated by National Express as One
 First North Western from March 1997 until December 2004, operations split between Arriva Trains Wales, First TransPennine Express and Northern Rail
 First GBRf from August 2003 until sold in June 2010 to Eurotunnel Group, rebranded as GB Railfreight
 First Capital Connect from April 2006 until September 2014, succeeded by Govia Thameslink Railway
 First ScotRail from October 2004 until March 2015, succeeded by Abellio ScotRail & Caledonian Sleeper
 First TransPennine Express (55% shareholding) from February 2004 until March 2016, succeeded by TransPennine Express with FirstGroup having 100% ownership
 TransPennine Express from April 2016 until May 2023, superseded by government-owned TransPennine Express

 United States 
 A-train, Denton County Transportation Authority commenced October 2016

 Denmark and Sweden 
 DSBFirst was a joint rail venture with Danish State Railways (30% shareholding) until 2013

References

Other websites




Category:British transport companies
Category:Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange