29 August 2010 - Fleet update
Two more high-floor buses are being replaced by fully accessible low floor vehicles. Olympian NV44 has moved to a new home in Suffolk with Carters Coaches and NV51 will be going down the road to Bryans of Enfield this week. In replacement come two Volvo B7TLs which have previously been working for London United in West London. They are VPs 113 and 116 and will retain their old fleet numbers with us.
RM1069 has had a repaint into an early London Transport livery and will be used today in service at the Colindale running day.
Click here for a photo of RM1069 or here for details of the Colindale running day.

3 August 2010 - Revisions to fares in Hertfordshire
From 29 August bus fares across Hertfordshire will be revised. Please click the route number below for further information.
200 201 203 205 206 215 242 312 398 656 833 841 841A B1 B2 B3 B76 B77 B78 B80 R16 R17.

2 August 2010 - Season tickets for routes 841 and 841A
From September, Sullivan Buses will take over the responsibility for season ticket sales on routes 841 & 841A. In the interim the passes issued will be similar to those issued by HCC. However, during the course of 2011, we will be looking to introduce smart card tickets across our services in Hertfordshire. As a result any passes in operation will be upgraded to smart cards. Click here for an order form.
The rates charged are those from the existing HCC season ticket tariff. In line with a general fares increase, the 841 and 841A’s single fares will increase as follows: Adult £2.60; Child 11 years and over holding HCC SaverCard £1.30; Child under 11 years £1.30.
Customers may obtain SaverCards directly from HCC.

14 July 2010 - IMPORTANT - Change of date of War & Peace Show trip
Our trip to The War and Peace Show will be now be on Sunday, 25th July, which is a change from our originally published programme. Vera Lynn will not be appearing on the Saturday as hoped, but there will be a very rare Spitfire and Messerschmitt flypass (weather and plane availability permitting) on the Sunday.
Click here for a flyer (excuse the pun). Normal standard pick up times apply.
Click here for more information on The War and Peace Show.

2 July 2010 - Eastbourne, Sunday 18 July
Please note that the bus will be picking up 30 minutes earlier than usual for this trip. The big event being held there is Eastbourne Extreme a display of extreme sports that also allows participation! The bandstand concert at 3pm features the Southdowns Concert Band. Details of these events were not included in our brochure as they were not known at the time of going to press.
Click here for a flyer of our Eastbourne Trip, or here for a flyer for Eastbourne extreme.
Click here for more information on Eastbourne Extreme.

10 July 2010 - Changes to 841 and 841A
Changes to routes 841 and 841A serving Chancellors School have now been confirmed. Having secured a contract with Herts CC to operate these services for another five years and, following consultation with the school and County Council, we have agreed changes which will take effect from the autumn term.
Route 841 will continue to run to and from Chancellors School from the Mutton Lane/Cranborne Road junction via Potters Bar High Street.
Route 841A will continue after all. In fact, the route will be extended to start from South Mimms Village.
Click here for a map of the revised 841A.

9 July 2010 - Fleet news
Five low floor doubledeck buses have joined our fleet ready for new contracts later this year. These are long-wheelbase Dennis Tridents which started life with Selkent, London as their DA class in November 1999. They come to us from the East London Bus Group.

12 June 2010 - Contract awards
We are pleased to announce that we will be running the R16 again from 16 September. It will connect Bushey, Watford Heath, South Oxhey and Carpenders Park with the superstores in North Watford on Mondays and Fridays.
We have also won new route R17 which will run on Wednesdays from Carpenders Park via South Oxhey, Bushey and Watford Heath to Hatch End Waitrose and Station. The R16 and R17 will use an accessible low floor single deck bus.
We have retained the contract for routes 841 and 841A serving Chancellors School and Potters Bar. There may be some changes. which are subject to discussion between the school and council. All buses may run via Potters Bar High Street, meaning the number 841A will not be used, and there is a possibility of some buses continuing from Potters Bar to South Mimms. [Please see 10 July above for an update regarding 841/A]
Over at Nicholas Breakspear School in St Albans, we have won work for 5 seat-belted double deckers. The exact pattern of services has not yet been determined.
In North London, we will again be running the Kenwood Shuttle routes for English Heritage, starting on 26 June.

11 June 2010 - Fleet news
We have sold Dart LDP29 to I. J. Hodge of Ripley, Surrey.

21 April 2010 - Two for the price of one on the 951 to Thorpe Park
Travel to Thorpe Park on our bus 951 from Borehamwood, Watford, Bushey and Denham during May and you can take a friend with you free with our voucher. This offer applies to passengers boarding at any point between Borehamwood and Denham and allows one person to travel free with a fare paying passenger. (The value of free travel must not exceed the fare paid - eg: two adults travel for the price of one adult, two children travel for one child fare, an adult and child pay just the adult fare)
Click here to download your own two-for-one voucher, or pick up one on one of our buses, where available.

11 April 2010 - Trip to Wrest Park: More details
When our latest Days Out brochure was published were not able to include full details of admission charges for our trip to the St George's Day Festival at Wrest Park Gardens on 25 April. English Heritage have now confirmed their admission prices and full details can be found in a flyer which can be downloaded here.
This looks like being an excellent and different event for people with a wide range of interests.

18 March 2010 - B1, B2, B3 details
Timetables and maps of the altered services on our local Borehamwood routes are now available.
Click for maps: B1/B2 B3
Click for timetables: B1 B2 B3

8 March 2010 - Spring and Summer Days Out
Our programme of Days out by bus from Borehamwood, Potters Bar, Finchley and Barnet is now available including many of your old favourites as well as some new destinations.
See the Days Out page, or click here to download a brochure in PDF format. Click here to download a flyer of our first trip of the season which is to Towcester Races and Dobbies Garden Centre - an excellent idea for Mothers' Day.

7 March 2010 - Changes to buses in Borehamwood
We will be making some changes to routes B1 and B3 from 29 March. Route B1 will no longer have journeys diverted via Melrose Aenue and Tennison Avenue, with all buses running direct along Furzehill Road. Route B3 will be diverted away from Hillrise Avenue and will serve Melrose Aenue and Tennison Avenue instead.
From 8 April the 1730 bus from JFS on Route B76 will no longer run, but the 1730 journey on Route B77 will be altered to run via Bushey Heath.
Route 951 from South Hertfordshire to Thorpe Park will return this year from 17 April. It will start from Borehamwood Tesco at 0850 and will not serve South Mimms Services. However, the later start will allow connections with local services from around Borehamwood, and from route 398 from South Mimms and Potters Bar.
Full details of all the above changes will be available shortly.

5 March 2010 - Cobham Bus Museum Spring Gathering
We will be taking some buses to Cobham Bus Museum's annual bus rally on 11 April, and have volunteered to work at least one wheelchair-accessible bus on route 477 between Wisley Airfield and the Museum at Cobham. ELV4 is likely to appear and Metrobus M2 is well on its way to full restoration.
Click here for details of the event or here for a sneak preview of M2.

2 March 2010 - New bus enters service
As expected our new single deck bus began service on the Borehamwood local network yesterday .
Click here or here for photos. (Better photos added 4 March here and here.)

25 February 2010 - New bus
As part of our continued investment in new buses a new Alexander Dennis single deck bus is due to it the road on Monday, and should be one of the first buses in the country to cary a '10' licence plate .
Click here for a preview photo.

7 February 2010 - New Hertfordshire County Council contracts
We have been successful in winning a number of routes on tender from Hertfordshire County Council. We have retained the Borehamwood local network - routes B1, B2 and B3 and have won a network of routes which will take our buses as far away as Codicote, Watton-at-Stone and Essendon.
Click here for details of the new network.

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