Arriva Southern Counties is a bus operator in London, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent and Essex in England. It is a subsidiary of Arriva. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
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| - Arriva Southern Counties is a bus operator in London, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent and Essex in England. It is a subsidiary of Arriva. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
- The company was originally founded in 1986 when Einkorn Ltd. bought Maidstone & District Motor Services Ltd (M&D) from the National Bus Company. In 1995, British Bus had ownership of M&D, Kentish Bus and Londonlinks services, and renamed Einkorn as Invictaway Ltd. to be the management services company for these routes. Invictaway was previously the name of the Maidstone & District commuter services to London, which were renamed Green Line at the same time. Upon the takeover of British Bus by Cowie Group and the subsequent renaming of Cowie to Arriva, the company was renamed Arriva Southern Counties in 1997, and the subsidary operating companies became as follows:
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| - Arriva Southern Counties is a bus operator in London, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent and Essex in England. It is a subsidiary of Arriva. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]
- The company was originally founded in 1986 when Einkorn Ltd. bought Maidstone & District Motor Services Ltd (M&D) from the National Bus Company. In 1995, British Bus had ownership of M&D, Kentish Bus and Londonlinks services, and renamed Einkorn as Invictaway Ltd. to be the management services company for these routes. Invictaway was previously the name of the Maidstone & District commuter services to London, which were renamed Green Line at the same time. Upon the takeover of British Bus by Cowie Group and the subsequent renaming of Cowie to Arriva, the company was renamed Arriva Southern Counties in 1997, and the subsidary operating companies became as follows: Maidstone & District:
* Mainly became Arriva Kent & Sussex Ltd.
* Medway area became Arriva Medway Towns Ltd. Kentish Bus:
* Mainly became Arriva Kent Thameside Ltd.
* Partly became Arriva Kent & Sussex Ltd. London & Country:
* Became Guildford & West Surrey Ltd. LondonLinks:
* Became Croydon & North Surrey Current operations in the Southern Counties area are:
* Arriva Kent & Sussex
* Arriva Kent Thameside
* Arriva Medway Towns
* Arriva Guildford & West Surrey
* Arriva Maidstone
* Arriva Southend Ltd Many reorganisations of Arriva operations in the South East have followed since, and today the company also controls Arriva Guildford & West Surrey Ltd., Arriva West Sussex. and Arriva Southend Ltd. (and, for a time before sale, Arriva Colchester Ltd.). The Croydon & North Surrey subsidiary was largely transferred to Arriva London. Arriva Colchester was sold in 2003 to Tellings-Golden Miller, although with Arriva's recent purchase of the Tellings operations, Colchester has now returned to the group. The coaching subsidiary, New Enterprise Coaches (Tonbridge) Ltd., inherited from Maidstone & District, remains in operation. The company offices have been based since its founding at: Invicta House Armstrong Road Maidstone Kent ME15 6TX.
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