Hastings Buses Vehicles and Operators
Arriva and Predecessors
Updated 22 October 2000
Hastings Buses Vehicles and Operators
Arriva and Predecessors
Updated 22 October 2000
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Now part of the Cowie company and being rebranded as "Arriva".
Buses arriving in Hastings currently have three different liveries;
a)......Almost NBC green and cream, of the companies serving the town this livery changed the least at privatisation and deregulation, with a slight updating and new fleetname style. Mainly on older buses.
M&D VR overtaking an ex Maidstone Boroline
bus now with Rambler, at Hastings Station January
1998
b)......"new livery" light emerald green and cream with lighter green band and fleetname in an oval panel. Becoming more common before the "Arriva" change.
Olympian at Hastings Station March 1999 in the
intermediate livery
c)......"Arriva" livery with turquoise all over except for cream splash to front dome, and the fleetname "Arriva serving Kent and Sussex". Originally on one double decker and one single decker now (Jan 98) being applied to more of the fleet
Olympian in Arriva livery Hastings Station
January 1998
Arriva
training bus in Hastings in "London Links" livery
2 Fuggles of Benenden Ceased trading mid March 1999 and route to Tunbridge Wells was run by Stagecoach, followed by Arriva as a permanent arrangement and is now back as a South Coast Buses service.
Leyland National at Hastings Station on the 349
to Tunbridge Wells seen on March 13th 1998 reminds us of the fine livery
of this independent who ceased trading in March 1999
Dennis
Dart on 349 January 1998
Stagecoach single decker on the ex Fuggles service
to Tunbridge Wells on 25 March 1999
Arriva
Leyland Lynx seen on the 349 service at Hastings Station on 17 May 1999,
in Kentish Bus livery
On route 19 Bodiam to Eastbourne via Battle,
Bexhill and Pevensey seen at Bexhill Town Hall
Square March 1999 this quiet rural route seems
over provided for with a double decker.
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