on the bus station wall below the windows help? Or the County Ale side advertisement - some enthusiasts keep records of these (Mine relate only to Maidstone Corporation which doesn

of the station rather than the bridge. 6102 is actually on a Hastings local service but I included it because it would have arrived from TW the evening before and overnighted at Silverhill

Benenden, Hawkhurst and other villages with Pembury and Tunbridge Wells. Solo GP55DEC is at the Old West Station, if I remember correctly forlornly, waiting for return passengers

uk/bus-funding-reductions This includes a PDF showing the timetables of the journeys affected (or for Kent Karrier there is just a summary of the scope of the service in each area)

) and Hawkhurst depot and bus station in 2008, through to its withdrawal of most of its activity on the Isle of Sheppey this year. We also witnessed the closure of Tenterden outstation

split at Hawkhurst, as Derek says, to keep within rules about domestic mileage limits. I dare say the different numbers reflect the history of each segment, having been re-spliced

near Bearsted Station is a pub of which I have fond teenage > memories “The Bell”. This was on the old 61 service from Maidstone to > Bearsted Green. I wonder if anyone has shots of

and out station at Hawkhurst. We also had 4003 for an open top ride around Hastings. I still have the welcoming letter on joint EK/M&D paper signed by RA Lewis, Traffic Administration

including Gemini Bus 6128 LJ51DHL on the 14:30PM Route 6 which is the last one of the day through to Maidstone, seen being passed by Go Bus & Coach Solo Bus 5802 YJ59PKV on Route 283

go via Hawkhurst - you're probably thinking of the 57 between Gravesend and Hastings, which did. The 122 ran direct from Gravesend to Tunbridge Wells via Borough Green and Tonbridge

away at Hawkhurst station, actually at Gill's Green just over a mile to the north of Hawkhurst, at the terminus of the branch line from Paddock Wood, which closed in 1961. See # below

of KCC bus funding. It considers the > budgetary requirement to make savings of £2.0m in each of the next two > financial years, and using the current criteria the impact this would

Following an inquiry, asking if I was scanning paper prints,the following notes might explain more. No all my scans are fron the original negatives (or

and from Hawkhurst (at one time it extended to East Grinstead to the west and Ashford to the east, but through journeys did not serve the Cranbrook-Hawkhurst section which was there

(Pentagon Bus Station) and Blue Bell Hill Village via Rochester, St >>>> William's Hospital and Cookham Wood. Its timetable was published three >>>>

Thanks Phil for your Canterbury view - here is another of 8805, this time at Hawkhurst Bus Station,

The service via Woodchurch was numbered 13 in the seventies. Here's 5497 in traditional livery

Hastngs -Hawkhurst Via Whatlington yesterday (03/07/2012) and is seen departing Hastings Station on the 12.38 to Hawkhurst. Thanks Brian. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianseast

Today (30/03/2012) down to Hastings again and found Countryliner Dart Y657 NLO ex Metroline DLD 187

a Hastings bus when the picture was taken (it later moved to Silverhill, but Hastings worked the 467). Ironically it was loaned to Bexhill depot during the last week of operation from

This vehicle is still in service, and was captured at Folkestone Bus Station on Thursday, working to

Between August 1981 (when the Maidstone co-ordination scheme was launched) and 1986, M&D extended

The one-time M&D bus station at Hawkhurst may be no more, but the Arriva sign remains on the depot building.

Page 18 of the new (July) edition of Buses carries a picture of the M&D and East Kent Bus

Work is well underway clearing the site. The Bus Station buildings are a pile of rubble but the

closure of Hawkhurst Bus Station and the transfer of Stagecoach's Dover operations to a new garage at Whitfield in February, several changes of operator on tendered services

I have set up on my fotopic site a collection of photos taken at Hawkhurst Bus Station since 1981.

at the Hawkhurst farewell last weekend to my fotopic site http://kensbusdigital.fotopic.net/c1463468.html Sample attached of preserved M&D 5138 at the bus station. Ken Lansdowne

I have put a selection of views from yesterday's event on my fotopic site on the link below. http

East Kent Bus Club website at www.mdekbusclub.org.uk Ken Lansdowne The M&D & East Kent Bus Club www.mdekbusclub.org.uk Wales Bus Photos www.walesbuspics.fotopic.net