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In November 1986, the National Bus Company sold Maidstone & District in a management buyout to Einkorn Limited. [2] In June 1988, New Enterprise Coaches of Tonbridge was purchased, followed in December 1991 by four buses and their associated Kent County Council services from Shearings , [ 3 ] and in June 1992 Boro'line Maidstone .
Maidstone Corporation Transport was the operator of trams, trolleybuses and motorbuses in Maidstone, Kent from 1904 to 1974. [1] The operations of Maidstone Corporation passed to Maidstone Borough Council Transport in reorganisation of local government in 1974, expanding the Borough boundaries.
Maidstone & District Motor Services [1] was a bus company based in Maidstone, Kent. The company operated bus and coach services in Mid and West Kent and East Sussex from 1911 until 1998. The company's surviving operations were absorbed into Arriva Southern Counties .
Bus services are provided by Arriva Kent and Surrey, Nu-Venture and Stagecoach South East. Routes connect the town with Ashford, Canterbury, Gillingham and Tunbridge Wells. [31] The following roads connect Maidstone with nearby locations: A20/M20 to London, Sevenoaks and Ashford; A26) to Tonbridge; A229 to the Medway Towns and Hastings; A249 to ...
To facilitate fast running, Tunbridge, Maidstone Road and Ashford stations were built with through roads. [6] Headcorn station was to be rebuilt on a similar plan in 1924. [7] Construction began in November 1837 from Reigate Junction eastwards, and in both directions from Tunbridge. The line from London Bridge to Tunbridge opened on 26 May 1842.
Maidstone Corporation began operation on 14 July 1904 with the introduction of a tram service to Barming, supplemented by routes to Loose and Tovil by 1907. [2]The company depot and offices were located on the north side of Tonbridge Road, about 50 metres east of its junction with Queens Road at , and a tramshed with a capacity of four tramcars was located near Pickering Street in Loose at
No regular buses stop outside the station although Arriva Southern Counties routes 6 & 6X to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells (including both Tunbridge Wells Hospital and Maidstone Hospital) stop a short walk away on Maidstone Road in Nettlestead Green. [7] [8]
The Redhill–Tonbridge line is a standard-gauge railway line in Surrey and Kent, England. [1] [2] It runs for 19 miles 56 chains (31.7 km) from the Brighton Main Line at Redhill to the South Eastern Main Line at Tonbridge. [3] [4] The line is electrified using the 750 V DC third-rail system and is double track throughout.