Service area Norfolk
Suffolk Chief executive Martyn Simonds Headquarters Diss Fleet 52 (October 2013) | Service type Bus & coach services Website www.simonds.co.uk Founded 1927 Routes 9 | |
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Destinations Norwich, Diss, Long Stratton & Bury St Edmunds | ||
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Simonds of Botesdale is a bus and coach operator based in Diss.They currently operate nine bus services in the Diss, Norwich, Long Stratton and Bury St Edmunds areas of East Anglia as well as coach charter services and school buses using a fleet of 52 buses and coaches. under the branding of Simonds CountryLink. In 2012, they won a London 2012 Olympics contract to operate four coaches during a three-week period.
Previously the company operated services between Diss and Ipswich, however these were withdrawn in 2015 and handed to Galloway.
The company's flagship route is the service 1, which operates between Norwich and Diss, calling at Burston, Long Stratton, Tasburgh, Flordon, Newton Flotman and travels into the city via Ipswich Road and Norwich City College. This competes head to head with First's 35 route, which travels only as far as Long Stratton.
Simonds is the only company to run a Sunday service between Norwich, Long Stratton and Diss.This service travels directly along the A140.