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 D&G Bus Optare Versa (27), seen in the new corporate livery for D&G Bus and Chaserider parked at the Chaserider depot, in Cannock, Staffordshire, 23 March 2024. | |
| Parent | Centrebus Group |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 (27 years ago) (1998) |
| Headquarters | Longton,Stoke-on-Trent |
| Service area | Cheshire Greater Manchester Shropshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent |
| Routes | 59 |
| Hubs | Congleton Crewe Knutsford Hanley Longton Macclesfield Newcastle-under-Lyme Nantwich Northwich |
| Depots | 4 |
| Fleet | 126 (January 2025) |
| Chief executive | Julian Peddle |
| Website | www.dgbus.co.uk |
D&G Bus[1] is a bus operator based inStoke-on-Trent, England. It operates local and interurban bus services inCheshire,Greater Manchester,Shropshire,Staffordshire andStoke-on-Trent.
D&G Bus was formed by David Reeves and Gerald Henderson in April 1998, initially operating four buses on two routes under contract toStoke-on-Trent City Council. It expanded with both route and school services inCheshire andStaffordshire with 16 buses by the end of 1998.
In April 2005, D&G Bus purchasedWednesfield basedMidland.[2][3] In 2006 following Gerald Henderson's sudden deathJulian Peddle purchased Henderson's shareholding in the business.[4]
In August 2011, theStaffordshire business was sold toWardle Transport with 46 routes, 30 buses and theAdderley Green depot.[5][6] In September 2011 D&G Bus and Julian Peddle purchasedSouth Lancs Travel inAtherton, Greater Manchester.[7]
In August 2012, the Midland business was sold toArriva Midlands with 61 buses.[3] In December 2014, the route operations ofBakerBus were purchased with nine buses.[4][8][9]
In March 2015, D&G sold South Lancs Travel toRotala[10] and in May 2015 purchased Wardle Transport back from Arriva Midlands with 19 buses.[11][12][13] In April 2016, D&G took over six routes from Routemaster Buses.[14]
In September 2016, D&G Bus took over the rest of the routes which Routemaster Buses had operated. In October 2016 D&G were awarded new five-year contracts for eight Cheshire East routes which were operated byGHA Coaches prior to its collapse including the 88 Altrincham to Knutsford via Wilmslow service.[15] However, most of these contracts were annulled 18 months later as part of Cheshire East council's bus review.[16]
In December 2019, Julian Peddle'sCentrebus Group purchased David Reeves shareholding in D&G bus, at present it will continue to operate as a separate unit from Centrebus.[17]
In March 2020, David Reeves died after suffering a heart attack, aged 61.
In February 2023,Arriva North West announced that they were closing their depots inWinsford &Macclesfield. In response to this, D&G registered replacement routes to cover some of the cancelled services, with some of these services being part-supported byCheshire East Council.
Following the closure ofArriva North West,Centrebus Group helped out by supplying a few vehicles for the fleet in Crewe which were used on a wide variety of routes like the 38 and 37. These were used to cover the routes that Arriva did cover and these are now slowly being sent back to Centrebus as D&G Bus acquires more vehicles for the fleet.
In late 2024, D&G Bus bought 16MCV Evora's for their Adderley Green and Crewe depots which are now used on the 38s which is a route that acquired newAlexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC's for the fleet. The MCV Evora's are now used on the 38s and the Enviro 200 MMC's are now mainly used on the 31/37 routes.
The company has depots in:
Past depots, now closed have included:
As of January 2025, the fleet consisted of 126 buses.[18] Fleet livery was originally cream and blue, it has since been replaced by a red with yellow signwriting scheme. During January 2024, the company revealed a new fleet livery.[19] Red is the main colour dominating the majority of the vehicle, but now features a yellow diagonal stripe with the rear of the vehicle being dark blue. This scheme is similar to the newer livery ofCentrebus vehicles.
As of April 2025, 30 buses in D&G’s fleet adorn the new livery.
The fleet mainly consists ofOptare Versas,Enviro 200's &Wright Streetlites.
Since December 2023, D&G acquired a number of brand new and second-handEnviro 200 MMCs, both the short and long wheel-base varieties.
As of August 2024, the firm acquired a number of brand newMCV eVoRa bodiedVolvo B8RLEs, six of which feature ‘the nines’ livery.
In November 2020, D&G announced they would be taking over the Cannock depot ofArriva Midlands from January 2021 with operations in Cannock and Stafford running under the Chaserider brand.[20]
Chaserider operates as a subsidiary of D&G with different ticketing arrangements and operates a separate website,[21] similar to the way Arriva ownedYorkshire Tiger operated in West Yorkshire but unlike Yorkshire Tiger, Chaserider has a similar livery to its parent.
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