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FirstGroup exits London to focus on deregulated bus markets

Lee Baker
19 April 2013
First is focusing on deregulated markets
First is focusing on deregulated markets

 

Firstgroup has sold eight of its London bus depots, raising almost £80m, as the company focuses on the deregulated market outside London.

The sales leave the group with only one depot in the capital, at Dagenham in east London, the future of which is also under review.

The bus depots at Alperton, Greenford, Hayes, Uxbridge and Willesden Junction, along with 494 vehicles and around 1,700 employees, will transfer to Metroline on completion of the sale for £57.5m, pending regulatory...

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