History bodied
Volvo B9R in
Birmingham in February 2013 operating a
National Express service Yourbus was founded by former
Dunn-Line managing director Scott Dunn in May 2009. From a depot in
Hucknall, two services from
Nottingham to
Bulwell and Hempshill Vale commenced in May 2009. In October 2009, Yourbus commenced operating routes 140, 141 and 142 under contract to
Derbyshire County Council. In February 2010 Yourbus commenced operating route Y36 in competition with
Nottingham City Transport. At this stage the Hucknall depot was relocated to
Heanor and following some routes commencing under contract to
Nottingham City Council in
Retford and
Tuxford, another opened in Tuxford. In August 2010, routes 228 and 229 commenced, again under contract to Nottinghamshire Council. In January 2012, further National Express contracts were won, by this stage Yourbus were operating 55 coaches on express services. Yourbus ceased operating services for National Express on 31 May 2015. In September 2015, the Y4 bus was launched on a 15-minute service from
Sandiacre, competing with Trentbarton's popular i4 service on the same route. It briefly became the fourth Y series bus to serve Nottingham, the others being the Y36, Y28 and Y5. However, the Y28 and Y4 were both withdrawn in mid 2016, the latter having been in service for just 10 months. In February 2017, the Y36, which formerly served
Chilwell, was also withdrawn, citing a decrease in passenger numbers. Chilwell was among the areas connected by Phase 2 of the
NET Tram, which opened in 2015. For the last six months of its service, the Y36 had been using a shortened version of its original route, avoiding the Chilwell loop altogether. The last Y36 ran to Beeston Interchange on 11 February 2017, leaving the Y5 as the only remaining Y series bus to serve Nottingham. The Y5 was rerouted in stages to cover parts of the former Y36 route not served by the tram. This strategy continued in February 2017, when Yourbus launched the 1 and 1A services in Derby, reusing vehicles from the Y36 fleet which had been withdrawn from service a day earlier. Yourbus abruptly ceased trading on Thursday 3 October 2019. Other operators have since stepped in to replace most of the
Derbyshire County Council tendered services including
Notts + Derby, CT4N and Littles Travel. The
administrator stated the business ceased after Yourbus' lawyers sought a winding up order after it refused to pay its invoices in relation to advice on the National Express contract termination. At the time a sale to
Rotala was in negotiation, but could not be completed once the winding up order was made.
Services As of March 2019, Yourbus operated 25 route and school services in
Derbyshire and
Nottinghamshire. Until May 2015, Yourbus operated the following services under contract to National Express: • 023:
London to
Bexhill-on-Sea • 024: London to
Eastbourne • 040: London to
Bristol • 230:
Gatwick Airport to
Derby • 240:
Heathrow Airport to
Bradford • 324: Bradford to
Paignton • 425: London to
Durham • 481: London to
Felixstowe • 594: London to
Edinburgh Liveries The original fleet livery was all over maroon. This was superseded by a livery of mainly white with a maroon swoop along the side. Coaches were painted in a white, red and black livery. Not all coaches were painted during their time at Yourbus with most of them remaining in the colours from purchase. ==Australia==