Royal Blue returns to Sussex - Eastbourne visit

[Derek Jones]

Some of you may remember the Royal Blue coach event which came to Kent in June 2013, and featured an overnight stop in Kent returning west via Hastings.

Kent doesn't feature this year but Sussex as far east as Eastbourne does, with the Saturday night stop there (although some coaches will be stabled overnight in the Newhaven area).

Full details are now on the TVAGWOT website (if you don't already know you will have to visit the website to find out what TVAGWOT are the initials for!) including a detailed downloadable timetable for the whole three-day event, starting at Oxford on Friday 21 June and ending at Basingstoke/Newbury on Sunday 23 June.

https://www.tvagwot.org.uk/royalblue24details 

Subject to any late changes on each day, Saturday morning sees the start of a re-creation of the western half of the former South Coast Express service (or as near as is realistically possible given all the changes to roads since that time), and is expected to include a diversion at lunchtime to visit the Amberley Museum, continuing via Arundel, Worthing and Brighton town centres before completing the afternoon with a run via Newhaven and Seaford to Eastbourne.

The return route on the Sunday starts at Eastbourne (with the coaches stabled at Newhaven making a short early morning run east to join their colleagues), then via Lewes, Brighton, Horsham and Guildford to Basingstoke.

Derek J