Boro’line Maidstone

Following deregulation, the post NBC-Map Analysis Maidstone Area Bus Services network was divided between Maidstone Borough Transport (trading as Boro'line) and Maidstone & District. Although prior to 1981, Maidstone Borough Transport's services were almost entirely within the town boundary, the MAP changes had left M&D without a depot in Maidstone. Maidstone Borough Transport retained rural services traditionally operated by Maidstone & District to the south of the town, an arrangement which remained until M&D's decision to introduce competitive services in the late 1980's (which resulted in the eventual sale of Boro'line to Maidstone & District).

Boro'line also enjoyed some success in London tendering.

Note: although Boro'line publicity divided services into either rural or town services, most rural services performed as town services within the Maidstone boundary and were included in summary timetables for principal town routes.

For current information about bus services in the south of England, please visit the Traveline site.

Index to Bus Services at 26 October 1986

Rural & Inter-Urban buses

Most buses run on Mondays to Saturdays only

Service

Route

Code

10

Maidstone, Bearsted, Harrietsham, Lenham, Charing & Ashford

1

13

Maidstone, Langley Heath, Kingswood, Ulcombe & Grafty Green

  

16

Maidstone, Otham, Langley Heath, Leeds & Hollingbourne

  

17

Maidstone, Otham, Langley Heath, Leeds & Hollingbourne

  

18

Maidstone, Loose, Boughton Monchelsea, Chart Sutton, Kingswood, Uicombe & Grafty Green

  

19

Maidstone, Loose, Boughton Monchelsea, Chart Sutton, Langley Heath & Leeds

  

23

Maidstone, Tovil, East & West Farleigh, Yalding, Laddingford, Collier Street & Horsmonden

  

23A

Maidstone, Tovil, East & West Farleigh, Yalding, Benover, Collier Street , Horsmonden & Goudhurst

  

23B

Maidstone, Tovil, East & West Farleigh, Yalding, Benover, Collier Street , Horsmonden & Goudhurst

  

23C

Maidstone, Tovil, East & West Farleigh & Yalding,

2

27

Maidstone, Tovil, Dean Street, Hunton, Chainhurst, Marden, Marden Thorn, Staplehurst & Frittenden

3

27A

Marden, Tovil, Dean Street, Hunton & Yalding

4

28

Maidstone, Loose, Coxheath, Hunton, Yalding, Laddingford, Collier Street, Marden & Chainhurst

  

29

Maidstone, Loose, Coxheath, Hunton, Chainhurst, Marden & Goudhurst

  

59

Maidstone, Loose, Boughton Monchelsea, Chart Sutton, Sutton Valence & Headcorn

  

Code

  1. Operated jointly with East Kent Buses (connecting at Ashford with buses to Folkestone)
  2. Most buses run between Maidstone and West Farleigh only
  3. Tuesdays only
  4. Most buses run between Maidstone and Hunton only

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Town Services

Most buses run on Mondays to Saturdays only

Service

Route

Code

10

Maidstone, Ashford Road, Bearsted (continues to Ashford)

1

21

Maidstone, Coombe Estate, Tovil, Tovil Green, Maidstone

  

31

Maidstone, Wheeler Street, Boxley Road, Penenden Heath, Peel Street, Maidstone

  

32

Maidstone, Wheeler Street, Boxley Road, Penenden Heath, Peel Street, Maidstone

  

33

Maidstone, Vinters Park, Chiltern Hundreds, Penenden Heath

  

77

Maidstone, London Road, Headingley Road, Allington Way, Hildenborough Crescent, Allington Park, Grace Avenue, London Road, Maidstone

  

78

Maidstone, London Road, Queens Road, Barming, Beverley Road, Heath Road, Queens Road, Maidstone

  

79

Maidstone, London Road, Palace Wood, Conway Road, Allington Park, Grace Avenue, London Road, Maidstone

  

81

Maidstone, Sutton Road, Park Wood Industrial Estate

  

82

Maidstone Hospital, Barming, Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Sutton Road, Park Wood

  

85

Maidstone Hospital, Barming, Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Mote Park, Foster Clark Estate, Shepway, Senacre Wood, Shepway (continues to Maidstone Hospital)

2

88

Maidstone, Loose, Coxheath (Village Centre)

  

89

Maidstone, Loose, Loose Valley, Coxheath, East Farleigh (Wilsons Lane)

  

95

Maidstone, Fant, Farleigh Lane, Barming, Tonbridge Road, Bull Inn

3

96

Maidstone, Fant, Farleigh Lane, Barming, Beverley Road, Heath Road

4

Code
  1. Operated jointly with East Kent Buses (connecting at Ashford with buses to Folkestone)
  2. Returns to Maidstone Hospital via Foster Clark Estate and as outward route reversed.
  3. Most buses run between Maidstone and Barming (Fountain) only
  4. Returns to Maidstone via Barming, Farleigh Lane and Fant

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This page was updated on May 08, 2008