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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.
Bus services are provided in and around the towns of Canterbury, Ashford, Ramsgate, Margate, Folkestone, Dover, New Romney, Lydd, Rye, Tenterden, Northiam, Hawkhurst, Hastings, Bexhill-on-Sea, Pevensey and Eastbourne, as well as a 1066 (originally 304/305) Stagecoach route to Tunbridge Wells from Hastings.
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
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.
Between 1988 and 2017, the Tonbridge bypass and the Pembury bypass were separated by a 1.7 miles (2.7 km) section of 7.3m wide single carriageway with no footways or verges. Severe congestion was frequent [ 13 ] as this stretch carried an average of 35,000 vehicles each day, significantly higher than its original capacity, and the number of ...
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.
On 26 October 1986, to fulfill a requirement of the Transport Act 1985, Maidstone Borough Council's bus services divested into arm's length, but council-owned, company Maidstone Borough Transport (Holdings) Limited [4] and other subsidiaries trading under the Best Impressions-inspired Boro'line Maidstone branding with a new yellow/blue livery.