I have been looking into bus operators in and around Yorkshire and neighbouring areas and discovered something very interesting about a bus operator called Trent Barton, which is summarised in a quote below:
'the villager' services run south to Burton on Trent with the numbering system, V1, V2, V3 and V4 and a number of services run north towards Ilkeston and Heanor such as the 'black cat' and 'H1'.
Trentbarton also operate a number of express services around the East Midlands. These include:
'red arrow' service from Nottingham to Derby
'pronto' (operated jointly with Stagecoach) from Nottingham and Mansfield to Chesterfield
V1, V2, V3, V4 are also route numbers used for the GNE Venture network. Black Cats was a brand previously used by GNE and I believe there was also previously a H1 service/route. Red Arrows and Pronto are also brands both used by GNE. A coincidence?
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