Slogan | no fuss - catch the bus! |
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Parent | Heritage Coaches |
Founded | 2012 |
Headquarters | Burgess Hill |
Service area |
Brighton East Sussex West Sussex |
Service type | Bus services |
Routes | 16 (March 2015) |
Hubs | Haywards Heath |
Fleet | 28 (May 2015) |
Website | www.thesussexbus.com |
The Sussex Bus was company based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex operating bus services in East Sussex and West Sussex as a subsidiary of Heritage Coaches. The company was formed after Countryliner] was placed in administration. It is a subsidiary of Heritage Coaches.
Services commenced at short notice on 9 October 2012 after Countryliner went into administration the day before and took over their West Sussex operations with a subsidy from the local authority on some of the routes.
On 1 September 2014, Sussex Bus commenced operating services in Crawley branded as Crawley Reds. In March 2015 it operated 16 routes.
On 1 October 2016 the services were taken over by Compass Travel with no buses nor the depot.
The Sussex Bus had two bus fires in 2013, first in March and the second in September.
In May 2015 there were twenty eight buses in the fleet.