Arriva Southern Counties - Depots

Depots

The locations of Arriva Southern Counties's depots and the divisions which operate them are:

• Dartford - Arriva Kent Thameside
• Gillingham - Arriva Medway Towns
• Grays - Arriva Southend
• Guildford - Arriva Guildford & West Surrey
• Maidstone - Arriva Maidstone / Arriva Kent & Sussex / New Enterprise Coaches
• Northfleet - Arriva Kent Thameside
• Sheerness - Arriva Medway Towns
• Southend - Arriva Southend
• Tonbridge - New Enterprise Coaches
• Royal Tunbridge Wells - Arriva Kent & Sussex

Former depots of Arriva Southern Counties were:

• Cranleigh - Arriva Guildford & West Surrey (outstation of Guildford) (Closed 2011)
• Gatwick (Copthorne) - easyBus (New Enterprise Coaches) (closed 5 December 2009)
• Hawkhurst - Arriva Kent & Sussex (closed on 17 February 2008)
• Horsham - Arriva Guildford & West Surrey (closed on 2 October 2009, operations sold to Metrobus)
• Sittingbourne - Arriva Medway Towns (closed on 2 July 2006)
• Tenterden - Arriva Kent & Sussex (closed on 9 May 2009, following loss of contracts for routes operated)

Dartford and Grays garages are the only Arriva Southern Counties depots which do not have commercial services and only handle services contracted by TfL. Therefore, all the buses in the Dartford and Grays fleets have the London red Arriva livery rather than the traditional cream and aquamarine livery Arriva uses elsewhere in the United Kingdom and other countries.

Commercial routes previously operated from Dartford depot before the change to all TfL services are now operated from the closest depot at Northfleet. Grays depot switched to all TfL services after Arriva Southend withdrew both commercial routes 373 and 383 in the Grays area, partially replacing them by extending service 5 from Southend-on-Sea. Services 44 and 150, the remaining services in the Grays area, are operated under contract to Thurrock Council. The buses used for these routes were transferred to the closest garage at Southend, where they are now run from.

Dartford garage currently handles TfL routes 126, 160, 233, 286, 428, 492, B12, B13 and B15.

Grays garage currently handles TfL routes 66, 256, 346, 370, 375 and 499.