Fleet Buzz

Fleet Buzz

A Fleet Buzz Mercedes-Benz Vario in Reading on service 72 to Aldershot.
Founded 1995
Service area Surrey
Berkshire
Hampshire
Service type Bus
Routes 7
Fleet 22 vehicles
Web site fleetbuzz.co.uk

Fleet Buzz is the trading name of Countywide Travel, a bus operating company based in Crondall, Hampshire, England. The company was founded in 1995, and operates local bus services in North Hampshire and parts of Surrey and Berkshire. In December 2011 it was announced that Fleet Buzz had been taken over by the Stagecoach Group.

Contents

[hide]

History

The company was formed in 1995 as a coach and bus company, based on vehicles from Marchwood Motorways and established a depot near to Basingstoke railway station in Basingstoke, Hampshire. In 1998 the operation was moved to the site formerly used by Oakley Coaches in Oakley, Hampshire. Countywide took over many of the routes which the Tillingbourne Bus Company company had been running when that company ceased trading in 2001. On 1 October 2007 the coach business was sold to Weavaway Travel and the bus operation moved to Crondall near Farnham in Surrey.[1]

In 2008-2009 the company upgraded its fleet with the purchase of 8 new Optare vehicles. These include four Solos and four Versas. The buses are painted in a livery of yellow (lower body) and black (upper body).

In December 2011 it was announced that the Stagecoach Group was to take over Fleet Buzz, which at the time of the deal owned 22 buses and employed 29 staff. The company will be run as part of the Stagecoach South division.[1]

Routes

The company's regular routes operated as of December 2011 are as follows.[2]

Number Route Notes
70 Elvetham Heath - Fleet - Aldershot Mondays to Fridays
71 Elvetham Heath - Fleet - Farnham Mondays to Fridays
72 Reading - Three Mile Cross - Spencers Wood - Swallowfield - Riseley - Hartley Wintney - Fleet Saturdays continues to Aldershot
73 Zebon Copse - Fleet - Farnborough Mondays to Fridays Every half hour. Continues hourly to Frimley Park Hospital. Saturdays hourly from Zebon Copse to The Meadows Shopping Complex.
79 Fleet - Yateley peak service Mondays to Fridays
82 Reading - Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood, Swallowfield, Riseley - Eversley - Yateley - Farnborough - Fleet Monday to Fridays only. One trip Farnborough - Reading & return on Saturdays
145 Three Mile Cross - Spencers Wood - Riseley - Swallowfield - Farley Hill - Eversley - Finchampstead - Wokingham - Winnersh Tuesday only morning shopper service

The company also operates a number of Schoolday services serving schools in the regular operating area.

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ a b Millar, Alan (January 2012). "Stagecoach South buys 22-vehicle Fleet Buzz". Buses (682): 8. 
  2. ^ Fleet Buzz website