History
Sullivan Buses was formed in 1998 by its owner, Dean Sullivan, who had previously worked as a manager for London Underground Ltd (LUL). One of Dean’s responsibilities with LUL was to deal with railway replacement bus services on behalf of the company. Independently of this, Dean owned three preserved ex-London buses and, with the assistance of a large bus operator, certified one of these buses for class six (PSV) use. Amongst Sullivan Buses' first PSV jobs was work for the Docklands Light Railway and London Underground. This success encouraged us to purchase our first OPO double deck in 1998. The bus was a former London Buses Leyland Titan (T85) purchased from Leaside Buses Limited. From here work soon grew and the first two buses were later joined by T890. T890 is still owned by the company. In 1999 a depot was established at South Mimms service area in Hertfordshire. This was joined by the former White Rose depot in Surrey in February 2002, since replaced by a base at Thorpe Park.

Sullivan Buses currently operates regular bus routes in Hertfordshire and Surrey on the London boundary, and is heavily involved in assisting railway companies with replacement bus services when engineering work disrupts rail travel. We have previously operated bus services for Transport for London, and recommenced mainstream contracts with route 298 early in 2012. We are due to take on four more school services from the Autumn.

Some of our older buses have London Transport origins but more recent buses have been bought new. With the exception of our heritage buses, our fleet is wheelchair accessible.

Ticket Machines
We use the latest electronic ticket machines. Wayfarer TGX Graphics machines are cutting edge ETM’s and are used on our stage carriage services in London and Hertfordshire. These machines are an updated version of those in use by Transport for London. The Graphics machines allow us to produce a wide range of tickets from Singles to full Annual Passes.

Modern technology
Sullivan Buses has invested in Satellite tracking and onboard CCTV. From July 2009 GreenRoad driver monitoring technology has been rolled out across the fleet.
More information is available here.

Depots
We currently have two operating bases. Our main operations are worked from our South Mimms base in Hertfordshire which gives us excellent access to the M25 and M1. Heavy engineering work is carried out at our works in North Mymms (the different spelling is correct!). We also have a base at Thorpe Park in Surrey.

Filming
Sullivan Buses regularly supplies buses to the BBC for shows such as Doctor Who, The Bill, Eastenders and Holby City. We often supply buses for TV adverts and major feature films. Harry Potter is familiar with our vehicles, even though none of our current fleet exceeds two decks!

Liveries
Most of our vehicles are in fleet livery of red or red and white, in a style as used by LT in the 1980s. Buses based at Thorpe Park for the 950 shuttle are in a blue livery. We also have heritage buses in London Transport red (central) and green (country) liveries.

Use the links on the left to view our fleetlist and photos, or see the Latest page for fleet news and forthcoming events.

Page updated 9.7.12