Arriva Southern Counties

**Arriva Southern Counties** is a bus company. It operates services in East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Surrey and West Sussex. It is a division of Arriva.

## Divisions
 with Northern Counties bodywork  in Royal Tunbridge Wells in April 2009]] 
 coach in September 2004]]

* **Arriva Kent & Sussex** operates in Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells. Buses go to Chequers bus station, Tenterden, Snodland, Tonbridge, High Brooms and Kings Hill.

* **Arriva Kent Thameside** operates in Dartford. Buses go to Bluewater shopping centre, Dartford, Orpington, Greenhithe, Gravesend.

* **Arriva Medway Towns** operates in the Medway Towns and parts of Kent. Buses go to the Medway Towns, Bluewater shopping centre and Gravesend.

* **Arriva Southend** operates in Essex. Buses go to Southend-On-Sea, Rochford and Hadleigh.

* **Arriva Colchester** operates in Colchester. Buses go to Greenstead, Monkwick and run a Park and Ride service.

## Services
### Local and Interurban Services
 bodied Volvo B7TL in Hadlow in February 2022]]
Arriva Southern Counties operate bus services in Kent and Essex.

In Southend, Arriva Southern Counties operate bus services in Rayleigh, Hadleigh, Rochford and Shoeburyness and in Colchester.

In Kent, Buses operate from depots in Northfleet, Gillingham, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells, they go to towns such as Dartford, Gravesend, Chatham, Maidstone, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells, Tenterden, Hawkhurst, Sevenoaks, Orpington, Sittingbourne and Sheerness-on-Sea.

#### Sapphire routes 480/490/491
 on Sapphire 490 at Bluewater Bus Station in December 2014]]
Arriva Southern Counties operate Sapphire buses in Kent Thameside on routes 480, 490 and 491, they go to Temple Hill, Dartford, Bluewater, Greenhithe, Swanscombe, Northfleet, Gravesend, or Valley Drive and Riverview Park. These services are operated by Wright Streetlite buses, they have free WiFi, e-leather seats and USB charging ports.

Sapphire branded buses were used on routes 101 (Chatham to Maidstone) in 2014 and 700 (Chatham to Bluewater) in 2017, but they were stopped in 2022.

In 2022, Arriva started to remove the Sapphire brand, the buses were painted into the normal Arriva livery or they were replaced with new buses.

#### Southend route 9
Arriva Southern Counties operate branded buses on route 9 in Southend, it goes from Rayleigh to Shoeburyness.

### Park & Ride
#### Colchester
Arriva Southern Counties operate the Colchester park & ride service for Essex County Council. The service operates in a circle, it goes from the Park & Ride site to Colchester City Centre and Colchester Station.

#### Maidstone
 in Maidstone Park & Ride livery in September 2020]]
Arriva Southern Counties used to operate the Maidstone park & ride for Maidstone Borough Council. The service went from London Road or Willington Street to Maidstone Town Centre. The service was stopped in February 2022 because there wasn't many passengers using it and because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

### Fastrack
 liveried Wright Streetlite at Bluewater in August 2015]]
Arriva Southern Counties used to operate three Fastrack services for Kent County Council, Prologis and Amazon.

The services were:
* **Route A** runs from Dartford to Bluewater via Temple Hill, The Bridge and 
* **Route AZ** runs from the Amazon LCY3 distribution centre to either Dartford or Gravesend at shift changeover times only
* **Route B** runs from Dartford to Gravesend via Darent Valley Hospital, Bluewater, Greenhithe and Ebbsfleet International railway station.

In November 2024, Arriva stopped operating the Fastrack services,

In November 2024, Go-Ahead London started operating the Fastrack routes.

## Depots
 bodied Volvo B7TL in Tunbridge Wells in December 2009]]
 bodied Volvo Citybus in the schoolbus livery in Cliffe in August 2009]]
 liveried Alexander Dennis Enviro200 in Dorking in July 2009]]

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

### Former Depots
Former depots of Arriva Southern Counties were:

## Fleet
As at December 2013 the fleet consisted of 900 buses and coaches. As at September 2014, 113 buses were dedicated to the Transport for London services.

## References 
## Other websites
*Arriva website