First Group

First is the UK’s largest surface transportation company with a revenue of over £3 billion per annum and some 74,000 employees across the UK and North America. We are the largest bus operator in the UK running more than 1 in 5 of all local bus services and carrying 2.9 million passengers every day. 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 Hull Trains. First operates the Croydon Tramlink network carrying approximately 22 million passengers a year on behalf of Transport for London. In North America the Group has three operating divisions: yellow school buses (First Student), transit contracting and management services (First Transit) and vehicle maintenance and ancillary services (First Services). Headquartered in Cincinnati, the businesses operate across the US and Canada. Our fleet of over 22,000 yellow school buses carry over 2 million students across every day