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Nippy Bus
Nippy Bus was a privately owned bus company operating services in Somerset, England. It operated local town services in Yeovil under contract to the Somerset County Council as well as rural services. Nippy Club was launched in 2010 utilising a coach on chartered services twice a month for clubbers.
Nippy Bus was founded in September 2004 beginning with five partially demand responsive night bus services, four of which (N1, N2, N4 and N5) started from market towns via villages in South Somerset to Yeovil serving parts of the town before reaching the centre. Route N3 operated as a local circular town service within Yeovil. After First Somerset & Avon cutbacks the company launched daytime services route N7 to replace First's 61A and route N8 to replace First's 56 under contract to Somerset County Council.
Originally based in Yeovil, the company moved to a purpose built garage in Martock, at the same time a commercial route began between Martock and Yeovil as route N9 operating as an express service in competition with First's route 52 offering a much shorter journey time. A demand responsive service operated from Martock as route N6 to provide connections to local villages including South Petherton.
Route N5 between Sherborne and Yeovil was withdrawn due to low passenger numbers. Routes 612 and 667 began to replace First routes of the same number.
Further expansion occurred with new route N10 to replace Safeway Services route 681, however at the same time South West Coaches offered to replace the route with route 81 when they acquired the company resulting in a situation whereby two routes served the same villages at the same time.
Route N10 was subsequently withdrawn and more new routes began including the N11, N12 and N14 under contract to Somerset County Council to replace South West Coaches routes.
Night Routes were expanded owing to the success in Yeovil to Taunton. Three Routes were launched the T1, T2 and T3 in Taunton and serving local villages surrounding the town. In addition a positioning trip running between Yeovil and Taunton was made into the first inter-urban night bus in Somerset which was branded as the Taunton Flyer. These routes were subsequently withdrawn.
Routes N7 and N14 were withdrawn and parts of these routes were incorporated into the N12. The company won new contracts from Somerset County Council for routes 63 and 633 which operated 3-4 daytime journeys Monday-Saturday, these routes were previously operated by Stagecoach South West, simultaneously they won school contracts for route 16 ex Stagecoach South West and routes 658 and 659 ex First Somerset & Avon.
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Nippy Bus
Nippy Bus was a privately owned bus company operating services in Somerset, England. It operated local town services in Yeovil under contract to the Somerset County Council as well as rural services. Nippy Club was launched in 2010 utilising a coach on chartered services twice a month for clubbers.
Nippy Bus was founded in September 2004 beginning with five partially demand responsive night bus services, four of which (N1, N2, N4 and N5) started from market towns via villages in South Somerset to Yeovil serving parts of the town before reaching the centre. Route N3 operated as a local circular town service within Yeovil. After First Somerset & Avon cutbacks the company launched daytime services route N7 to replace First's 61A and route N8 to replace First's 56 under contract to Somerset County Council.
Originally based in Yeovil, the company moved to a purpose built garage in Martock, at the same time a commercial route began between Martock and Yeovil as route N9 operating as an express service in competition with First's route 52 offering a much shorter journey time. A demand responsive service operated from Martock as route N6 to provide connections to local villages including South Petherton.
Route N5 between Sherborne and Yeovil was withdrawn due to low passenger numbers. Routes 612 and 667 began to replace First routes of the same number.
Further expansion occurred with new route N10 to replace Safeway Services route 681, however at the same time South West Coaches offered to replace the route with route 81 when they acquired the company resulting in a situation whereby two routes served the same villages at the same time.
Route N10 was subsequently withdrawn and more new routes began including the N11, N12 and N14 under contract to Somerset County Council to replace South West Coaches routes.
Night Routes were expanded owing to the success in Yeovil to Taunton. Three Routes were launched the T1, T2 and T3 in Taunton and serving local villages surrounding the town. In addition a positioning trip running between Yeovil and Taunton was made into the first inter-urban night bus in Somerset which was branded as the Taunton Flyer. These routes were subsequently withdrawn.
Routes N7 and N14 were withdrawn and parts of these routes were incorporated into the N12. The company won new contracts from Somerset County Council for routes 63 and 633 which operated 3-4 daytime journeys Monday-Saturday, these routes were previously operated by Stagecoach South West, simultaneously they won school contracts for route 16 ex Stagecoach South West and routes 658 and 659 ex First Somerset & Avon.