First Glasgow

First Glasgow is the largest bus company serving the Greater Glasgow area in Scotland. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup. The company operates within the area covered by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, a public body responsible for helping to co-ordinate public transport services in the Greater Glasgow area. It runs around 118 services, has a fleet of over 1,000 buses, and employs over 2,800 drivers.

History
First Glasgow was created through FirstGroup's buyout of Strathclyde Buses (created from the former Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive bus fleet, formerly the municipal Glasgow Corporation Transport), which had itself recently bought out the former Kelvin Central Buses (an amalgamation of Kelvin Scottish and Central Scottish, owned by the state-owned Scottish Bus Group).

First Glasgow has two operator's licences:
 * First Glasgow No 1 Limited - the former Strathclyde Buses licence
 * First Glasgow No 2 Limited - the former Kelvin Central Buses licence

Buses carry legal signwriting for First Glasgow Limited, despite of this having been a dormant company since at least 2008.

Depots
First Glasgow currently operates out of six depots.
 * Glasgow (Victoria Road, Larkfield) - headquarters
 * Dumbarton (Birch Road)
 * Glasgow (Tollcross Road, Parkhead)
 * Glasgow (South Street, Scotstoun)
 * Hamilton (Glasgow Road, Blantyre)
 * Overtown (Castlehill Road)

In May 2013 Cumbernauld depot closed with staff, buses and services transferred to Larkfield, Parkhead and Blantyre depots.

Services
First Glasgow mainly run services in Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire areas of Strathclyde. However, some services do run outside of these areas. It was one of the first bus operators to introduce an "overground", a colour-coded set of bus routes with route branding on the bus exteriors and timetables. As of 2006, route branding has been removed from buses but remained on timetables until mid 2008.