Key Facts about Go-Ahead
Key Stats
Go-Ahead is a leading UK public transport operator
- Headquarters: London, UK
- Employees: 22,000
- Registered Office: Newcastle, UK
- Buses: 3,800
- Listing: London Stock Exchange, FTSE 250
- Trains: 800
- Bus Passengers: 1.7 million every day
- Revenue*: £2,201.6m (2009: £2,187.2m)
- Rail Passengers: 1 million every day
- Operating Profit**: £102.0m (2009: £128.8m)
- Divisions: Bus and Rail
* For the financial year ended 3
July 2010
** Before amortisation and exceptional items. For the financial
year ended 3 July 2010
Key Facts
Group
- 'Local' is key to the Go-Ahead philosophy. We believe that transport services are best delivered at a local level. We empower our local managers and operate our companies as autonomous business units.
- Go-Ahead is committed to reducing the environmental impacts of its operations. We were the first public transport company to have been officially certified with the Carbon Trust Standard after taking action on climate change.
Bus
- We are the largest bus operator in London, providing services for Transport for London. We operate over 100 routes in the capital and carry around one million passengers a day.
- Outside London, we run bus services in Oxford, the South East, Southern and North East England.
Rail
- We have a strong presence in London and in the West Midlands through our three rail franchises Southern (including Gatwick Express), Southeastern and London Midland.
- Our rail operation is the busiest in the UK and is responsible for nearly 30% per cent of all UK passenger rail journeys.
- We operate every single train that arrives into London Victoria Station, including the Gatwick Express.
- We operate the UK's first high speed domestic rail service between Kent and London St Pancras, dramatically reducing journey times.
