Derbyshire bus company to cease trading with new operators to take over routes
Hulleys of Baslow is to close down from Thursday
A Derbyshire bus firm which serves parts of South Yorkshire is to cease trading later this week.
Hulleys of Baslow, which was stripped of several routes last week due to unreliability, is set to cease trading from Thursday (March 27).
Derbyshire County Council has since stepped in to find new operators for several key routes, including the 63 Chesterfield to Matlock line (to be taken over by Stagecoach Yorkshire) and 257 Sheffield to Bakewell service (to be operated by Linburg Coach Travel.)
Derbyshire County Council’s Executive Director for Place, Chris Henning, said:
“We were sorry to hear that Hulleys are to cease trading this week, both for the company and its employees but also the many residents and communities their bus services visited. We have done all we can over recent months to support them through a very challenging period.
“We have been concerned about the reliability of their services for some time and took the decision a few weeks ago to find other operators for the ones that the council pay for, in the hope that this would enable them to concentrate on their commercial services. Sadly this has not turned out to be the case.
“We are pleased that we have new operators for our services and are hopeful that the commercial routes they ran will be picked up very soon. We also hope that the rest of our local bus companies will be able to offer jobs to those employed by Hulleys.”
We've approached Leonard Curtis, the firm handling Hulleys liquidation, for comment.
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