Our Company
FirstGroup plc is now the world's leading transport company with annualised revenues of over £5 billion a year. We employ over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and transport more than 2.5 billion passengers a year.
We are Britain's largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local bus services. A fleet of nearly 9,000 buses carries 3million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities.
We operate passenger and freight services in the UK. Our passenger operations include regional, intercity and commuter services -
First Great Western, First ScotRail, First Capital Connect, First TransPennine Express and First Hull Trains, a non-franchised open access operator. We also provide freight services through First GBRf and operate the Croydon Tramlink network which carries almost 25million passengers per annum.
In North America the Group has four operating divisions: yellow school buses (First Student), transit contracting and management services (First Transit), vehicle maintenance and ancillary services (First Services) as well as Greyhound provider of scheduled inter-city bus transportation services.
We are the leader in safe, innovative, reliable, sustainable transport services - global in scale and local in approach.