Imperial Buses

Imperial Buses is a small bus company located in Romford, Essex who operate public transport services and private hire in Essex, Greater London and Thurrock.

Routes
They mostly operate school buses and rail replacement services but also operate some bus routes around Essex. They have a private hire business, with vintage Routemasters and RTs. The vintage buses are seen at bus rallies, on television advertisements and on special days usually around Christmas on their H1 route.

Imperial Bus Company, purchased Travel with Hunny during September 2007, however the two companies divided again in January 2008. Both companies are now separate, and are in no way connected.

In September 2008, the company took over the Brentwood and Stondon Massey/Blackmore local services 71, 72 and 261 previously operated by Clintona Minicoaches.

In September 2010, Imperial introduced commercial route 339 between Blackmore and Warley via Ongar and Brentwood, operating every hour on Mondays to Fridays in competition with Arriva Shires & Essex route 501. This is Imperial's first commercial operation since the H1 was withdrawn. Due to low patronage, the 339 was withdrawn on 13 December 2010. From 4 April 2011, Imperial started operating Thurrock Council contract route 11, from Purfleet Station to Chadwell St Mary via Aveley and Orsett. Previously, the route had operated from Purfleet to Basildon and was operated by Clintona Minicoaches, and before that it was operated by Blue Triangle.

Reported 02/11/11 by many good sources (drivers) Imperial bus company have sold/transferred the local Brentwood service routes(71/72,261,268,269) to Regal busways of chelmsford from the 27th November 2011.

However they will continue to run the route 11, School routes and private hires as usual

Imperial Buses also operate many school buses across Essex and Thurrock, as well as being a frequent contributor to local rail replacement services.

Fleet

 * Dennis Dart MPD/Plaxton Pointer 2 - Ex Metroline (Y251NLK)
 * Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer 2 - Ex Metroline (R181 VLA)
 * Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer - Ex Hylton Castle (N261 PJR)
 * Dennis Dart SLF/Marshall Capital - Ex MTL London and Metroline. (D710 - R710 MEW, D874 - R874 MCE)
 * Leyland Olympian/Northern Counties - Ex Kentish Bus and Arriva London.(G515/521 VBB)
 * RT Private Hire
 * AEC Routemaster Private Hire
 * Leyland Atlantean (XPG 201T) Private Hire