Southdown PSV

Southdown PSV Limited, trading as Southdown Buses, is a medium-sized country bus operator, with 17 routes across East Surrey, West Sussex, South London and Kent,[1] 8 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
FoundedApril 2002
HeadquartersCopthorne
Service areaWest Sussex

East Surrey

Kent

South London
Service typeBus services
Routes17 (6 of which are school routes)
HubsOxted, East Grinstead, Caterham & Westerham
Fleet29 (October 2020)
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, Crawley, Lingfield, Caterham, and East Grinstead.[2] Their only operating garage is in Copthorne.

Fleet

As of October 2020, Southdown PSV operates a fleet of 29 buses.[3] The engineering division, in addition to maintaining the Southdown fleet and preparing vehicles for sale, also provides engineering to other operators.[4] 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.[5] In 2021, Southdown took delivery of two Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC buses.[6][7]

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.[8][9][10][11]

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. Enthusiasts Archived 6 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine Southdown PSV
  4. Engineering Archived 13 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine Southdown PSV
  5. Laura Cork (27 April 2018). "Southdown Buses expands fleet with Scania-ADL double-deckers". Transport Engineer. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  6. "Southdown takes delivery of two new ADL Enviro200 buses". Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  7. "Southdown Buses takes delivery of two brand new ADL Enviro200 buses". Alexander Dennis. 27 October 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  8. Bus Sales Southdown PSV Archived 22 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Home Archived 12 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Chartwell Bus & Coach Sales
  10. Southdown's dealership becomes Chartwell Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Route One 17 August 2016
  11. Southdown PSV splits Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Bus & Coach Buyer 17 August 2016
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