Southdown PSV Limited,

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Southdown Buses, is a medium-sized country bus operator, with 18 routes across

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, South London and

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, 9 of which are school bus routes. Most of their routes are operated on behalf of

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, other work includes railway replacement services for planned engineering work. Southdown Buses operates mainly in

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, Redhill,

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, Lingfield,

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, and East Grinstead. Their only operating garage is in Copthorne.

Services

All Southdown PSV services are operated from the company's depot in Copthorne. Southdown PSV currently operate the following services (excluding school services): In September 2022, Southdown temporarily diverted some routes in

and

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since the road surface in some areas had deteriorated to the point it was causing maintenance issues to vehicles.

Fleet

As of August 2022, Southdown PSV operates a fleet of 30 buses. The fleet consists of a mixture of Volvo B7TL

Plaxton President The Plaxton President was a low floor double-decker bus body built at Northern Counties plant in Wigan, England and branded as a Plaxton product for its main production run. It was first unveiled in 1997 on the longitudinal Volvo B7L chas ...

Alexander Dennis Enviro200 The Alexander Dennis Enviro200 (previously known as the TransBus Enviro200) is a midibus that was manufactured by TransBus International and later Alexander Dennis between 2003 and 2018. The original TransBus Enviro200 design was innovative bu ...

Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC The Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC (sold as the Alexander Dennis Enviro200) is a single-decker city bus produced by Alexander Dennis since 2014, as the successor to the Enviro200 midibus and Enviro300 full-size bus. The first Enviro200 MMC ...

, N230UD Alexander Dennis Enviro400 and N250UD Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC buses. 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. In 2021, Southdown took delivery of two

buses.

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.Southdown PSV splits
''Bus & Coach Buyer'' 17 August 2016

References

External links

Company website
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