pointer i bodied dennis dart slf in brighton in january 2013 slogan no fuss catch the bus parent heritage coaches founded 2012 headquarters burgess hill service area brighton east sussex west sussex service type bus services routes 16 march 2015 hubs haywards heath fleet 28 may 2015 website www.thesussexbus.com the sussex bus 1 was company based in burgess hill west sussex operating bus services in east sussex and west sussex as a subsidiary of heritage coaches . the company was formed after countryliner was placed in administration . it is a subsidiary of heritage coaches . 2 contents 1 history 2 bus fires 3 fleet 4 references 5 external links history edit east lancs esteem bodied volvo b7rle in brighton in september 2014 services commenced at short notice on 9 october 2012 after countryliner went into administration the day before and took over their west sussex operations with a subsidy from the local authority on some of the routes . 3 on 1 september 2014 sussex bus commenced operating services in crawley branded as crawley reds . 4 in march 2015 it operated 16 routes . 5 on 1 october 2016 the services were taken over by compass travel with no buses nor the depot . 6 7 8 bus fires edit the sussex bus had two bus fires in 2013 first in march 9 and the second in september . 10 fleet edit in may 2015 there were twenty eight buses in the fleet . 11 references edit companies house extract company no 8254712 sussex bus limited companies house extract company no 6970508 heritage coaches limited more on the buses changes in countryliner crisis . mid sussex times . 10 october 2012 . retrieved 21 december 2012 . sussex bus challenges metrobus in crawley buses issue 715 october 2014 page 8 timetable sussex bus 2 march 2015 sale of thesussexbus routes to compass travel compass travel 26 september 2016 many routes now changed ownership from sat 1st oct the sussex bus compass travel buys thesussexbus coach & bus week issue 1260 4 october 2016 page 8 bus catches on fire 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