Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Fleet Review
1
January 1986 to present day
Shown
here are details of buses and coaches that have operated with Brighton &
Hove.
It
starts in 1986 with all vehicles present at the time and then updates with new
deliveries year by year.
The
layout of each entry is in the following order:
Fleet
No, Registration No, Delivery date, Livery and subsequent ones, Name on bus (as
applicable), Disposal date, Chassis No, Body No.
To
see a picture of the bus click on the livery text and it should pop up.
The listing is nearly complete and
has a few details missing, research is ongoing to update this.
To see the fleet review (in delivery date year by year) listing every
bus we have ever owned since 1986, click on a year:
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
There is also a listing of Ancillary Vehicles and Training Buses here Other There is also a complete list of the
fleet at certain dates since 1986, click on the date to see the fleet on that
date: 1 March 1986, 1 March 1987,
1 March 1988, 1 April
1989, 1 May 1990, 1 April 1991, 1 April 1992,
1 April 1993, 1 April
1994, 1 May 1995, 1 May 1996, 1 April 1997, 1 April 1998, 1 April 1999,
17 April 2000, 1 April 2001, 26 April 2002,
6 April 2003, 1 May 2004,
26 April 2005, 23 April 2006, 21 May 2007, 28 May 2008, 29 May 2009, 1 May 2010,
5 May 2017, 1 May 2018, 13 May 2019, 25 June 2021,
These
dates coincide with the publication of each Southdown Enthusiasts’ Club Fleet
List Booklet for that year.
This
Fleet Review would not have been possible without the great effort and dedication
made by the late Jim Jones during 1999/2000.
The following standard body code
designations are used on this website:
Body
type, seating capacity and entrance position (then standees as appropriate).
This
code is shown before the seating capacity:
B
- Single deck bus
C
- Coach
CO
- Convertible open top
DP
- Dual purpose, bus and coach DPH - Double deck dual purpose vehicle
H
- Highbridge (or standard height) double deck bus
FH
- Full-fronted highbridge double deck bus
O
- Permanent open top double deck bus
SEATING
/ STANDING CAPACITY
Double
deck - the upper deck seating capacity precedes the lower.
Single
deck - a single figure denoting the seating capacity. Licensed standing
capacity is shown after a
With
the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act some vehicles can now
accommodate wheelchairs which results in a variable seating capacity. In such
cases only the maximum capacity is shown.
ENTRANCE
POSITION
This
is shown after the seating capacity
D
- Dual door (front entrance, central exit).
F
- Front or forward entrance
R
- Rear, open platform
RO
- Rear, open staircase and platform
t
- Toilet compartment fitted
Many thanks to Roger Ticehurst for access to his comprehensive photo collection of B&H buses since 1986, most of which have been taken by photographer Mervyn Steadman and Darren Tasker, who have allowed us to show them here. Also thanks to Calvin Churchill for filling in a few gaps in the photo records. Thanks also go to John Nicholas, Steven Dinnage, Graeme Selway, David Heath and Alan Towner for providing us with more photos. Latest thanks to David Grimstone for locating some recent buses disposed of with their new operators, plus for nowadays taking the photos of everything! Also thanks to extra photos supplied by Jaco Moss, Edward Ayris and Kelly Fortune.
All photos on this website are
copyright to the photographer, even where it is not stated on the image, use of
photos from this website for sale or use on other websites will be in breach of
copyright. Copyright in these pages is owned by Brighton & Hove Bus and
Coach Company Ltd. Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Ltd owns the
copyright in the content published on the website except where otherwise
indicated by a third party's proprietary notice. Images, trade marks and brands
are also protected by other intellectual property laws and may not be
reproduced or appropriated in any manner without written permission of their
respective owners. Unless specifically prohibited by a notice published on any
page, you may make a print copy of such parts of the website as you may
reasonably require for your own personal use provided that any copy has
attached to it any relevant proprietary notices and/or disclaimers. All other
use is prohibited. For details see our Website usage and
disclaimer.
Many
thanks also to Gordon Dinnage for permission to use images from his
photo library, many of which are available for sale, we recommend you visit www.TransportPostcards.co.uk for
more information.
Thanks
also go to Southdown Enthusiasts’ Club for permission to use some photographs
and filling in some of the detail about vehicles on this website, with special
thanks to John Wilkin.
For those
of you with a keen interest in buses and coaches, contact should be made with
the Southdown Enthusiasts’ Club.
http://www.southdownenthusiastsclub.org.uk
There
are some buses we do not have photos of, if you have any that will fill any
gaps we will be pleased to add them, send any information to mike.cheesman@buses.co.uk - and
have an enjoyable time looking at this Fleet Review.