Trivia : Closest depots/outstations same company

[Simon75]

First buses Bradford is 6miles from Leeds Bramley, are ther any other depots of the same company close by ?

 

[freetoview33]

First buses Bradford is 6miles from Leeds Bramley, are ther any other depots of the same company close by ?

In Bristol Lawrence Hill and Hengrove are 5 miles apart.

 

[bussnapperwm]

National Express's Birmingham Central depot is not far from their Bordesley Green, Aston and Miller Street depots

 

[DC3]

National Express's Birmingham Central depot is not far from their Bordesley Green, Aston and Miller Street depots

Bordesley has since closed, and Miller Street is a storage yard.

Acocks Green to Yardley Wood is 3.3mi

Acocks Green to Birmingham Central is 3.8mi

(Google Maps, by road, not as the crow flies!)

 

[wibble1989]

Arriva Dewsbury to Arriva Heckmondwike is 3.1 miles

 

[higthomas]

Arriva Wood Green to Arriva Palmers Green is 1.1 miles by road.

 

[lewisjn]

Do the two parts of Brixton depot count? That'll probably be one of the closest if it does.
There's also Uxbridge UX and the outstation UE which are very close.

 

[DunsBus]

Ten miles separates the former First depot at Hawick and its outstation at Jedburgh. Both buildings, incidentally, still stand today.

 

[bussnapperwm]

Bordesley has since closed, and Miller Street is a storage yard.

Acocks Green to Yardley Wood is 3.3mi

Acocks Green to Birmingham Central is 3.8mi

(Google Maps, by road, not as the crow flies!)

Bordesley is still be used by NX Travel Solutions and NX Accessible Transport for certain school journeys on NX West Midlands routes.

With regards to Miller Street, the OP didn't define their post as being used by the operators active fleet, just depots owned.

Another (closer) example is the NX West Bromwich depot, which has an outstation within less than half a mile

 

[swifty]

First West of England’s Wells depot on Priory Road has its overflow/outstation extra parking area 0.4 miles away to the south at Wells Cold Store.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

Metroline’s Perivale and Perivale West are very close together. Neither are that far from Alperton or Greenford.

 

[CN04NRJ]

Lothian Buses Marine garage is 3.0 miles from Central garage and it's 5.2 miles from Longstone to Central.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

RATP's depots at Shepherds Bush and Stamford Brook - 1.2 miles apart.

Mind you, you could have First Halifax with Skircoat Road and Elmwood garages being almost split by a road but obviously operating as a single entity.

In the past, London Transport had depots at Camberwell and Walworth, not much more than 100 metres apart.

 

[CBlue]

Once upon a time Stagecoach East maintained two temporary depots near St. Ives. One was at the former Whippet depot on the A14 and was purely for maintenance, with the fleet being stored 1.2 miles (according to Google maps) up the A1096 at an old industrial site.

 

[cnjb8]

Nottingham City Transport have their Lower Parliament Street and Trent Bridge depots 1.3 miles apart and a quick 5 minute journey down London Road, provided it's not packed with traffic as it usually is.

 

[Flange Squeal]

Falcon Coaches have their main depot at Unit 20A on the Wintersells Road Indutrial Estate (30 vehicle authorisation), but recently added 15 vehicles at Unit 5 on the same industrial estate one road down m and just 0.2 miles away on Google Maps (less ‘as the crow flies’). They also have an outstation for 4 vehicles in Chobham, seven miles away. It appears that as the fleet has grown, Unit 20A is now the ‘bus depot’, and Unit 5 the ‘coach depot’.

Reading Buses-owned Courtney Buses occupy three very close together but physically separate units on the same industrial estate in Bracknell, but I think they technically come under one overall depot and drivers just walk no more than a couple of minutes (if that?) between them. Was a case of having to get what units they could find when they had to move out of the former First Beeline town centre depot for redevelopment. They also have another depot 8 miles away near Wokingham. Their corporate contracts mean they have some outstations on business parks, including Basingstoke’s Chineham Park and Viables just 3 miles apart, and also the ‘Thames Valley’ branded Slough location about 6.5 miles from the Heathrow/Sipson Coach Centre outstation.

 

[Jordan Adam]

Upon the take over of Rapsons Stagecoach Bluebird had two depots in Inverness. One at 5 Burnett Road and the Ex-Rapsons depot at 1 Seafield Road. The two depots were just under 300 Metres apart. The Burnett Road site remained in use for a few years while Seafield Road was redeveloped

 

[Megafuss]

Southern Vectis Mountjoy Outstation is less than a mile on foot from the main depot in Newport!

 

[Lewlew]

First Hants and Dorset's Hoeford and Hilsea depots are 6.6 miles by road, a little closer as the crow flies. With Southampton 15 miles away by road. Again a little closer as the crow flies.

 

[Dai Corner]

In Bristol Lawrence Hill and Hengrove are 5 miles apart.

Is the Lawrence Hill site still regarded as two depots, one being the 'Country' one relocated from Marlborough Street?

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Is the Lawrence Hill site still regarded as two depots, one being the 'Country' one relocated from Marlborough Street?

It's a bit of a moot point.

I believe that Marlborough Street (MH) is regarded as a separate depot with it's own manager and it's own drivers' and rota. However, it uses all the same facilities of LH depot, in terms of staff welfare, engineering etc and no longer operates on a different O license. It has it's own routes and as many are branded (e.g. South Gloucestershire Lynx), it does have regular vehicles but many vehicles are just drawn from a collective pool of LH/MH vehicles so an urban liveried B9TL could be working a turn on LH route 1/2 on one day and be out on the MH Y6 the next day.

 

[Ken H]

First leeds Bramley and Hunslet depots are 4 miles apart as crow flies.

 

[Simon75]

Arriva Harlow is 8 miles from Ware (Hertfordshire)

 

[freetoview33]

It's a bit of a moot point.

I believe that Marlborough Street (MH) is regarded as a separate depot with it's own manager and it's own drivers' and rota. However, it uses all the same facilities of LH depot, in terms of staff welfare, engineering etc and no longer operates on a different O license. It has it's own routes and as many are branded (e.g. South Gloucestershire Lynx), it does have regular vehicles but many vehicles are just drawn from a collective pool of LH/MH vehicles so an urban liveried B9TL could be working a turn on LH route 1/2 on one day and be out on the MH Y6 the next day.

Haha. Well sumed up! There also used to be at least 2 different pay rates too. Although on the operator licence the bus station is itself is listed as the depot so.

 

[route101]

Blantyre and Overtown depots arent a million miles away from each other, I think they share buses and drivers from time to time.

 

[Eyersey468]

At one time quite a few East Yorkshire depots were only a few miles from each other, there was Scarborough Barry's Lane and Westwood (both still open), Pickering (closed), Bridlington (open), Driffield (closed), Beverley (closed), Hornsea (closed), Withernsea (open), Hull Anlaby Road (open), Hull Hedon Road (closed), the ex Veolia depot in Hull (closed), Elloughton (open), Pocklington (open), Waxholme outstation (closed AFAIK) and Easington (closed). Not all of these were open at the same time.

 

[scotrail158713]

It’s just 3.5 miles from East Coast Buses Musselburgh depot to Lothian Buses Marine depot. They're kind of the same company.

 

[DunsBus]

Another one from the Borders - the Borders Buses depots at Galashiels (ex-First) and St Boswells (ex-Perryman's), again separated by ten miles.

But perhaps the ultimate example has to be the erstwhile joint Eastern Scottish and United depot building at Berwick. Yes, they were part of two different entities, but they were separated only by a dividing wall.

 

[Private Baxter]

First West of England’s Wells depot on Priory Road has its overflow/outstation extra parking area 0.4 miles away to the south at Wells Cold Store.

I would say that is a little different, as they have long outgrown the main depot at Priory Road, so an overflow site was needed, preferably as close as possible. This arrangement has worked for many years, presumably it is cheaper than having a new bigger depot.

 

[richw]

First south west

WESTERN HOUSE, ST AUSTELL STREET, SUMMERCOURT, NEWQUAY, TR8 5DR,
And
TRESILLIAN BARTON, SUMMERCOURT, NEWQUAY, TR8 5AA

are 2.4 miles apart on the same road. Opposite sides of Summercourt village. The latter is a temporary outstation due to increased pvr due to covid dupes etc I believe, meant insufficient room at the main depot

also First south west Kelly Bray and Stoke climsland outstations are 1.9 miles apart. But Both are outstations for just 1 vehicle each