Metrobus (South East England)
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Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited,[4] trading as Metrobus, is a bus operator with routes in parts of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, and Greater London. Formed through a management buyout in 1983, Metrobus was purchased by the Go-Ahead Group in September 1999 and is now under the control of Brighton & Hove, part of the Go-Ahead Group.
Parent | Brighton & Hove (part of the Go-Ahead Group) |
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Founded | July 1983 |
Headquarters | Crawley |
Service area | East Surrey West Sussex North-west Kent London |
Service type | Bus services |
Routes | 70[1] |
Hubs | Crawley Copthorne |
Fleet | 180 (August 2023),[2] 157 currently operating[3] |
Website | www.metrobus.co.uk |
Metrobus previously operated many routes under contract to Transport for London in south and south-east London, but following a restructure, on 1 April 2014 these were transferred to Go-Ahead London under London General. The remaining commercial operations were brought under the control of Brighton & Hove on 1 July 2014. On 2 September 2023, the operations of Southdown Buses were transferred to Metrobus.[5]