| 词条 | Go Whippet |
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|name = |logo = Go Whippet logo.png |image = Go Whippet X604 EGK.jpg |image_caption = Plaxton President bodied Dennis Trident 2 at St Ives bus station in May 2012 |image_size = |company_slogan = The community's local bus company |parent = Ascendal Group |founded = 1919 |defunct = |headquarters = Swavesey |locale = |service_area = Cambridgeshire |service_type = Bus services and National Express |alliance = |routes = |destinations = Cambridge Huntingdon St Neots |depots = |fleet = |ceo = |website = www.go-whippet.co.uk}} Go Whippet[1] is a bus operator based in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. HistoryWhippet Coaches was founded in Huntingdonshire by bicycle salesman Henry Lee in 1919. The first Whippet coach was converted from an American ambulance.[2] Originally based in the village of Hilton, they moved into a depot at Fenstanton in 1977. In 2009 the company sold these buildings to Stagecoach in The Fens and moved to a depot at Swavesey. In November 2014, the family business was sold to Transit Systems.[3][4] In October 2018 Go Whippet was sold to the Ascendal Group, owned by Transit Systems' former chief executive officer.[5] Whippet used to operate some summer only services to the coast. These have been running in various forms from 1957 up to 2013, and ultimately served Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea. Current operationsGo Whippet has a fleet of over 50 vehicles, a mixture of single and double deck buses with around 26 coaches. Local buses are run in parts of north Cambridgeshire, including town services in St Neots, and the company also operates a few school and college contracts. ContractsIn 2014 it became a contractor for the National Express as well, and in 2016 also for the University of Cambridge's Universal service. It also used to operate Tesco Bar Hill Free buses but Tesco stopped funding them and they stopped operating.[6] Whippet Coaches now operate National Express routes:
Guided BuswayFrom 7 August 2011 until 9 November 2018, Whippet operated service C on Cambridgeshire Guided Busway from Somersham to Cambridge city centre on the section between St Ives and the Cambridge Science Park. This was being run in conjunction with Stagecoach in the Fens (who ran routes A and B) who jointly with Go Whippet had exclusive use of the route for a period of five years in exchange for providing a minimum service frequency between 07:00 and 19:00 each weekday.[7] Whippet spent a total of £420,000 on three Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLE buses[8] that have been sold since and replaced by four Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLEs. Whippet launched a new bus service route U (for Universal) in Cambridge in July 2016, running originally from Madingley Road Park & Ride (now: Eddington) via West Cambridge to Addenbrooke's Hospital. It is subsidised by the University of Cambridge and replaced the Uni4 service, formerly operated by Stagecoach in Cambridge.[9] The service was rerouted between Cambridge railway station and Cambridge Biomedical Campus via the southern part of the Busway, starting 3 December 2016, after delivery of seven more Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLEs fitted for use on the guided busway.[10] On 21 June 2017 at approximately 15:48, a Cambridgeshire Guided Busway service, operated by Whippet, derailed near the entrance to the busway at Cambridge railway station. It was travelling towards Addenbrooke's Hospital. The bus crashed into a wall, with damage sustained to the driver's position but there were no serious injuries.[11] Whippet initially blamed cyclists for the accident saying that they had caused the driver to swerve to avoid them.[12] They later deleted those tweets, apologised to the cyclists and dismissed the driver for causing the crash by travelling above the speed limit on the entry to the busway.[13] Service C between Cambridge and St. Ives was withdrawn at the end of 9 November 2018, leaving all bus operations on the northern section of the guided busway to Stagecoach East and ending Whippet's services in the St. Ives area.[14][15] Service U continues running on the southern section from Cambridge Railway Station to Addenbrooke's Hospital. References1. ^Companies House extract company no 520428 Whippet Coaches Limited 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.go-whippet.co.uk/index.php?pageid=2|title=About Us|publisher=|accessdate=17 September 2014}} 3. ^Lee family completes sale of Whippet buses to Aussie firm Hunts Post 18 November 2014 4. ^[https://cbwmagazine.com/tower-transit-adds-go-whippet/ Tower Transit adds Go Whippet] Coach & Bus Week 18 November 2014 5. ^Whippet confirmed as part of Ascendal Group Coach & Bus Week issue 1364 16 October 2018 page 8 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.go-whippet.co.uk/index.php?pageid=3|title=Timetables|publisher=|accessdate=17 September 2014}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2008/10/08/guided_bus_menzies_qa_feature.shtml|first=Bob|last=Menzies|title=Guided Busway – Your Questions Answered|work=BBC Cambridgeshire|publisher=BBC Online|date=26 November 2008}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_cambridge/displayarticle.asp?id=480712|title=Operators hit out at costly hold-ups to guided busway|work=Cambridge News|first=Chris|last=Elliot|date=1 February 2010|accessdate=2 February 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921034904/http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Operators-hit-out-at-costly-hold-ups-to-guided-busway.htm|archivedate=21 September 2012|df=dmy-all}} 9. ^Universal bus service links West Cambridge to Cambridge railway station University of Cambridge 29 June 2016 10. ^Changes to route U from 3 December 2016 Go Whippet 11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40360991|title=Driver hurt in Cambridge guided busway crash|date=2017-06-21|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-06-23|language=en-GB}} 12. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/guided-busway-crash-cambridge-13220608|title=Guided busway driver crashed after 'swerving to avoid cyclist'|last=Starnes|first=Anna|date=2017-06-21|work=cambridgenews|access-date=2017-06-23}} 13. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40558729|title=Speeding Cambridgeshire guided bus crash driver sacked|date=2017-06-21|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-10-03}} 14. ^{{cite news |title=Whippet deregisters Cambridgeshire Guided Busway route |url=https://cbwmagazine.com/whippet-deregisters-cambridgeshire-guided-busway-route/ |work=Coach & Bus Week |date=9 October 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129180435/https://cbwmagazine.com/whippet-deregisters-cambridgeshire-guided-busway-route/ |archivedate=29 November 2011}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/bus-cancellation-x3-whippet-papworth-15261317|title=Mum of son with learning disability 'shocked' after Whippet bus he relies on is cancelled|date=2018-10-10|work=Cambridge Evening News|access-date=2018-11-14}} External links
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