Southdown PSV

Southdown PSV Limited, trading as Southdown Buses, is a medium-sized country bus operator, with 18 routes across East Surrey, West Sussex, South London and Kent,[1] 9 of which are school bus routes. Most of their routes are operated on behalf of Surrey County Council, other work includes railway replacement services for planned engineering work.

Not to be confused with Southdown Motor Services.
Southdown PSV
Alexander Dennis Enviro200 Dart
at Crawley bus station in July 2009
ParentGo-Ahead Group
FoundedApril 2002
HeadquartersCopthorne
Service areaWest Sussex
East Surrey
Kent
South London
Service typeBus services
Routes18 (9 of which are school routes)
HubsOxted, East Grinstead, Caterham & Westerham
Fleet29 (March 2023)
Chief executiveStephen Wallis
Websitehttp://www.southdown.net
Plaxton President bodied DAF DB250 at Brighton station in 2008

Southdown Buses operates mainly in Oxted, Horley, Redhill, Westerham, Lingfield, Caterham, and East Grinstead.[2] Their only operating garage is in Copthorne.

On 1 February 2023, Southdown PSV was purchased by the Go-Ahead Group, with the company being brought under the control of Brighton & Hove and the Southdown PSV identity retained.[3]

Services

All Southdown PSV services are operated from the company's depot in Copthorne.

Southdown PSV currently operate the following services (excluding school services):[4]

Route Start End Operation
236 Oxted East Grinstead Monday-Friday
409 Selsdon East Grinstead Monday-Sunday
410 Redhill Hurst Green Monday-Sunday
411 Warlingham Reigate Monday-Friday
422 Redhill Copthorne Monday-Sunday
424 Redhill Copthorne Monday-Sunday
485 East Grinstead Snow Hill Monday-Friday
594 Westerham Oxted Monday-Saturday
595 Westerham Oxted Monday-Saturday

Fleet

As of August 2022, Southdown PSV operates a fleet of 30 buses. The fleet consists of a mixture of Volvo B7TL Plaxton President, Alexander Dennis Enviro200, Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC, N230UD Alexander Dennis Enviro400 and N250UD Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC buses.[5]

In 2018, Southdown took delivery of two Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC buses based on the Scania N250UD chassis, having trialled a demonstrator the previous year.[6] In 2021, Southdown took delivery of two Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC buses.[7][8]

Dealership

In addition to being a bus operator, Southdown also used to be a new and used bus dealer. In September 2016, the business was split with Southdown managing director, Steve Swain taking over the dealership and renaming it Chartwell Bus & Coach Sales.[9][10][11][12]

References
  1. Companies House extract company no 4416005 Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Southdown PSV Limited
  2. Timetables Archived 5 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine Southdown PSV
  3. "Southdown to join Brighton and Hove Buses owner Go Ahead". The Argus. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  4. "Southdown Buses Network Map" (PDF). Southdown PSV. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  5. "Southdown Buses Fleet List". Southdown PSV. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  6. Laura Cork (27 April 2018). "Southdown Buses expands fleet with Scania-ADL double-deckers". Transport Engineer. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  7. "Southdown takes delivery of two new ADL Enviro200 buses". Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  8. "Southdown Buses takes delivery of two brand new ADL Enviro200 buses". Alexander Dennis. 27 October 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  9. Bus Sales Southdown PSV Archived 22 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Home Archived 12 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Chartwell Bus & Coach Sales
  11. Southdown's dealership becomes Chartwell Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Route One 17 August 2016
  12. Southdown PSV splits Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Bus & Coach Buyer 17 August 2016
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