#1 coach in 1973

www.CoastalCoaches.com Coastal Coaches of Newick, Sussex - Established 1973

#126 new in 2007

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© Paul Gainsbury	Coastal Coaches - Current bus services The current fleet of low-floor buses at Coastal Coaches are operated on services 312, 325, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344 and 347, of which details of these routes can be found with East Sussex County Council Rider Bus Timetables as the listed contracted services. To locate these routes on a mapping service, provided by ESCC, visit the page at 'Bus Network Maps' (Should these links become out of date, you can contact us on the Northiam Depot number or our email address). All buses continue to be in the smart white with blue skirt and light green roof.
Contact Coastal Coaches	Coastal Coaches - Contact us You may contact Coastal Coaches by telephone, post, or email, where we will endeavour to respond to your enquiry within 5 working days or before. Follow the link to our contact details page here; Contact Us
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© Paul Gainsbury	Coastal Coaches - Company History Coastal Coaches of Newick, East Sussex, commenced operations in 1973 with a Plaxton bodied Bedford SB5, and within a short time a small fleet was soon available for service. This included an unusual ex-Standerwick Bristol VRL/LH, an ECW bodied double-deck coach, also an almost overpowering MAN integral. Coastal Coaches mostly favoured the Seddon Pennine chassis. During 1990-91 two Leyland Nationals were purchased followed by Fiat mini-buses, including an MCW Metrorider and Carlyle-bodied Darts for the contracted services. The last remaining coach was sold in 1992, and the emphasis has been since to provide regular headway services on the East Sussex and Kent county border with a very modern fleet consisting of fully accessable low-floor standardised single-deck bus bodies. Quoting ESCC, Eight new low-floor buses were brought in to service by Coastal for East Sussex County Council in 2002, with a new addition in 2004, 2005 & 2007, which were the first of its type in the county councils area allowing easy access. See the full fleet list for details on each vehicle used plus thumbnails leading to full images, where available. Contact the webmaster if you can fill any gaps in our fleet photo list.
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Peter Jenkins collection	Coastal Coaches - Previous Coach Hire & Tour operations. Operations from 1973 with that first Bedford coach were based in Newhaven, moving to Seaford, with current bus operations based at Northiam, Coastal Coaches are now registered at Newick. Peter entered the 20th British Coach Rally, with VMA 8J, a Plaxton Seddon Pennine given number one as the entrant number and picking up a prize. The same coach was used to a Epsom Derby race day. During a London Rail strike, a Seddon Pennine was also used for that rail replacement contract.
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© Marshall SPV Ltd.	Coastal Coaches - Former bus services Coaching was operated from the earlier bases, whereas the bus services were provided from the Newick office. An example of former services are the 145/146 operated from Denton, through South Heighton, Newhaven, Gibbon Road, and Peacehaven during 1987. Operating centres & (Registered address) Newhaven Depot (Newhaven) Eastbourne Depot (Seaford) Battle (Newick) Northiam Depot (Newick)
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© James Luke	Coastal Coaches - Fleet history with details & pictures Coastal Coaches fleet of buses are presented in a smart white with blue skirt and light green roof & more details can be found from the link provided. Pictures of vehicles in past ownership would be very welcome as would in new ownership following their sale for this site. We are also missing a few of the more recent vehicles, & any used would be credited accordingly, with a direct link to the providers own site as a thanks.
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© James Luke	Coastal Coaches - Website This company had not until 2006, had its own internet website, although there are a variety of independant webmasters that have admirally promoted both the fleet and routes of this Sussex Coastal Coaches company. Therefore during 2006, this site had been created, intended as the official site for Peter Jenkins, the properietor of Coastal Coaches to further his company image along with information on routes, fleet, both past & present. All photographs used on this site were initially used from the personal historical photograph collection, or actually taken by the owner of Coastal Coaches Peter Jenkins, along with many others as credited and supplied where known. The Coastal Coaches site has been designed, compliled, edited, publicised and hosted by Steven & Gordon, through the Sussex-Transport non-profit site created in 2000 as an informational portal.

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