Kinchbus

Kinchbus is a bus operator based in Loughborough. It was originally an independent company established by Gilbert Kinch, but is now owned by the Wellglade Group who also own Trent Barton. It operates various local services around Loughborough, Route 2 from Leicester to Loughborough and Skylink from Leicester to Loughborough and Derby, via East Midlands Airport. The company was one of the first to use satellite tracking to provide a text message service to passengers.

Fleet
The Kinchbus fleet consists entirely of low-floor vehicles, branded for each route except services 21, 70 and 123. Services 5, 21, 70, 123 and Sprint use Optare Solos, services 11/12 use Optare Tempos, Skylink uses Volvo Centros and services 2 and 9 both use Wright Eclipse Urbans. The Skylink vehicles have recently undergone interior refurbishments and a new livery similar to Trent Barton's Skylink Nottingham service which has been applied to the buses.

List of services
Kinchbus operate the following services in the Leicestershire area, with connections to Derby and East Midlands Airport;