Worthing Bus Coach Coaches Buses Train City Modern Trainers City Drawing. Mark Lane Mews, Upper St. James's Street, Brighton 1916 7. Southdown shared the operation of the Flightline 777 Service between Crawley, Gatwick Airport and London Victoria with London Country's Green Line operation. The original registered office was in Middle Street, Brighton and in 1916, a garage was built in Freshfield Road. The Stage Coach brand was also applied to occasional services to Winchester and Salisbury (710), Hawkhurst and Canterbury (718), Windsor and St Albans (735), and Oxford (738). Feb 21, 2018 - Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Southdown Bus Garage - Original 35mm slide c/w copyright at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! Ending 24 Jan at 5:18PM GMT 8d 15h. In 1946, a co-ordination agreement with Portsmouth Corporation was reached, splitting mileage and receipts on a 57:43 share, Southdown being the minority. Southdown turned to Hove coach builder Harrington for coach bodies, an arrangement that continued until the 1960s. Later vehicles were painted in Southdown's green and cream livery with the fleetname 'Southdown BH&D'. Southdown Fleet and Routes 1939 shows the fleet at 1 January 1939, together with the bus and express services operated at that time, details of the service fleet, the garages in use and much more. 278722. Photographs of Southdown buses and coaches from establishment in 1915. The booklet has six pages of photographs, a map of the services operated in 1939, and a colour cover. These routes were rebranded (somewhat ironically) as Stage Coach in 1982. A scanned negative from 1988 Used, Southdown: The History v. 1 (British Bus Her . This coach was transferred to Ulster in 1951 where it became the first to operate a programme of Irish tours for the company. Southdown's existence ended effectively in 1992 when the company changed its name to South Coast Buses Ltd, using the fleet names "In East Sussex" and "Coastline Buses" for the west. Saved by june gulliv er. The only visible difference at first was the addition of 2000 to the fleet numbers. List View Map View | Related Types of Business | Related Locations. No need to register, buy now! CORONAVIRUS INFO *SERVICE CHANGES FROM 25/01/2021* HOME. The old Southdown depots at Chichester and Worthing remain in use with Stagecoach today. After the war, Southdown started its first overseas tours with a 17-day tour to France and Switzerland in 1950, operated by Leyland Tiger number 1223. However the company itself was formed in 1915, abandoning plans to call itself South Coast Motor Services (a similar name had been registered by a Folkestone operator). Bus Stations and Garages. He was a bus driver for Southdown for many years. I have many fond memories of travelling with him on days out and I believe he recieved a long service award. Garages were built to house them in most towns and many villages and one of the earliest central overhaul works in the country was opened at Portslade in 1928. This service initially used Leyland Leopards, and latterly Leyland Tigers, and was one of four "airport network" service connecting Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted with Central London. The operating area of the company was bounded by Eastbourne, Portsmouth and the Sussex border. All Rights Reserved. The East Sussex division registered a fairly basic network from the outset, linking a number of services together to form trunk services linking the major towns, sometimes by fairly circuitous routes. TICKETS. 14 West Street, Brighton, coal yard 1915 5. Locally, Heathfield garage opened in 1927, with Uckfield bus station and garage opening in 1936. This also extended the company's eastern boundary to Heathfield. The rear of Portslade Works in Brighton September 1980 ... (So long associated with many of the traditional coaching companies many Southdown express coach services departed from here) Bognor Bus Station July 1979 (Opened in 1934 the facility closed in 1982) Saved by eBay.co.uk. SERVICE UPDATES. Registered Charity No. A version of Southdown's traditional livery was adopted, albeit with less cream than on the pre-NBC incarnation. The Southdown buses that then passed through Felpham were the 31, 50, 50A and 69. Southdown benefited from the establishment of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, gaining services previously operated by East Surrey and Autocar in the Weald south of East Grinstead and Crawley. It had a network of garages and a works at Portslade. BLACK & WHITE BUS PHOTO - SOUTHDOWN 16. bore little resemblance to the original. He also did bus tours from Maderia Drive in the sixties. Southdown pursued a policy of purchasing rival operators to consolidate its business. These are accepted at all times on Southdown Routes 422, 424 & 524 which serve Crawley and Gatwick, and offer reduced weekly, monthly & annual travel passes. Bus Photo Southdown Leyland Royal Tiger LUF 500 East Grinstead Route 36. Crown Car Care M O T Centre Ltd. Regular express services began in 1924, initially between Brighton and London (Lupus Street). Southdown Bus Photos. Haworth Village comes alive when the 1940s comes to the Worth Valley. SOUTHDOWN BUS GARAGE. Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QX. It incorporates a number of components rescued from other buildings. 1 bid. In 1957 Southdown also entered into the Heathfield Pool agreement (also known as the Heathfield Cycle) with M&D by which all services through Heathfield became joint operations. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. Beacon Motor Services of Crowborough was fully acquired in 1954 (although it had been controlled by Southdown since 1949). Southdown's assistant traffic manager devised a scheme to overcome delays caused by the blackout on country routes by extending journey times on evening services, ensuring that connections would be maintained. Southdown celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1985, the year before deregulation, and buses carried a special logo (shown above) which also appeared on publicity. The legal title of the western division then reverted to Southdown Motor Services Ltd. Until 2005, Stagecoach had four depots remaining in East Sussex (Eastbourne Outstation, Lewes, Seaford, Uckfield); the business in this area was sold to Brighton & Hove along with 15 buses and 66 staff. southdown motor services ltd Description: Records deposited to date represent principally the corporate, shareholding and financial aspects of the Company's history but the document books (with the associated series of original contracts, agreements, etc., which are as yet unlisted), contain important evidence of working arrangements. The company fleet name was lost when it was acquired by the Stagecoach Group in 1989 but buses operated under that legal name until 2015 when the operating licence was transferred to another company within the Stagecoach Group and 1915 company became dormant but still owned by the Stagecoach Group.[2]. Bognor Regis. 1950 also saw the introduction of scenic open top services from Brighton to Devil's Dyke and Eastbourne to Beachy Head, operated by decapitated war time Guys. Southdown Depot - a former bus garage used here as a car park. 225 likes. The bus garage at Amberley is typical of a design of Southdown garages of the 1920s. Between 2000 and 2005 Queen Marys were operated on route 77 between Brighton and Devil's Dyke during the summer months by Southcoast Motor Services which is an operator specialising in operating preserved ex-Southdown buses. It was formed in 1915 and had various owners throughout its history, being purchased by the National Bus Company (NBC) in 1969. These vehicles were used on express coach work initially. Southdown became associated with BET following the division of Tilling and BET in 1942. Agreement for hire of kiosk at Aquarium, Brighton 1915 6. The co-ordination of services, dubbed Portsmouth Area Joint Transport Services, lasted until deregulation in 1986. The more elderly buses on display are mainly used for educational purposes during school visits and bus shows, but one of the vehicles is in use every day providing a free bus service around the site. The Leyland National became the standard single deck bus while the Leyland Leopard fulfilled coach orders. Southdown did not take any deliveries of rear engined double deck vehicles until 1970 when it purchased a batch of Daimler Fleetlines with Northern Counties bodywork similar to that on later PD3s for Brighton & Hove and a number of Bristol VRTs with Eastern Coach Works (ECW) bodies painted in green and cream livery. This gallery features some photos taken at the 2012 Amberley Bus Day of a scale model of the extensive former Hilsea bus depot set in the heydays of Southdown and Portsmouth Corporation. 73 Middle Street- let in 1915 for a bus station 2. Many Sussex visitors will recall the yellow and green livery of the Southdown Motor Services, which began in 1915, and which had routes across Sussex and Hampshire. The driver/conductor would not change, thereby working on a 'foreign' vehicle. A few vehicles (mainly Leyland Nationals) soon received the original Stagecoach white and stripes livery, albeit with the fleetname bearing "SOUTHDOWN - Part of the Stagecoach Group". Bus Coach Barnsley London Photos Brighton Garage Ebay Drive Way Garages Car Garage Southdown also began to establish a programme of local long distance tours throughout the twenties and it was in 1921 that the famous Southdown scroll logo was adopted. £0.99 postage. GOV.UK:Face coverings are mandatory on all public transport. Oil engines were favoured and bodywork provided by a number of different coachbuilders, although Park Royal provided the majority of bus bodies, a relationship which continued into the NBC period. Southcoast Motor Services took its name from the original proposed name of Southdown Motor Services. 40b and 40c Park Street(Freshfield Road Garage) 1915 4. Thousands of people throng the village, many in ’40s civilian and forces dress to celebrate britishness and the allied victory over the Axis states. The original company has passed into history, so it is to the preserved examples we look to today that keeps the memory alive. British Electric Traction (BET) took an early interest in the company, as did Thomas Tilling. It is always good to see and to record models/dioramas completed by others and especially so when they have been scratchbuilt to scale and to an exceptionally high standard. More. Upon the closure of the depot in Eastbourne in 2003, operations were split with the eastern end becoming "Stagecoach in Hastings" and the western division becoming "Stagecoach in the South Downs". You may even recall the routes displayed in our 1930s enquiry and booking office, along with many artefacts such as tickets, uniforms and signs. This often had the result, at the end of the year, that buses from one operator would be put onto routes of the other to balance the mileage. The post war building programme continued with garages established at Crawley, Hassocks, Moulsecoomb and Seaford, while bus stations were opened in Chichester, Haywards Heath and Lewes. Little change was noticeable at first, the corporate green and white livery not appearing until the early 1970s. The network included services from Brighton to Worthing, Bognor Regis, Chichester and Portsmouth (700), Newhaven and Eastbourne (712), Lewes, Uckfield and Tunbridge Wells (729), Haywards Heath (770) and between Eastbourne and East Grinstead (780) and Rye via Hastings (799). Southdown Motors Services Ltd (although this was the legal name of the company (until 1992) it was normally referred to as Southdown Motor Services[1]) was a bus and coach operator in East and West Sussex and parts of Hampshire, in southern England. Southdown's early orders favoured Tilling-Stevens chassis until the outbreak of World War II, although some all-Leyland Titans provided the company with its first closed top vehicles in 1929. Garage Services in Southdown Bath Somerset. We have a collection of restored buses and ‘tramocars’ from different eras ranging from 1908 to 1938, mainly on loan from the Southdown Omnibus Trust. 1971 also saw the transfer of most Crawley services to and from London Country - a newly formed organisation within the National Bus Company. If you work at Gatwick Airport, an easit CRAWLEY member company at selected companies in City Place, you could be eligible for a Gatwick Travelcard. Bus Photo Southdown Leyland PD3 6918 CD Service 94 . 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