The popular South East Bus Festival will be back at Kent Showground, alongside the A249 near Maidstone, on Saturday 5 April 2025 and the organisers say they are looking forward to welcoming well over 100 buses and coaches as well as several thousand visitors.
The well-established event will be taking place for the thirteenth time since 2011 and will, once again, be part of Kent County Agricultural Society’s Heritage Transport Show which normally attracts more than 700 cars, commercials, military vehicles, motorbikes and tractors.
The showground offers a vast amount of space on which to display a large number of buses and coaches, and the internal road layout allows a frequent free bus service to run between different parts of the site while giving the opportunity for people to ride on buses, old and new, that they might not otherwise get a chance to sample.
Co-organiser Richard Lewis said: “We are delighted to be making arrangements for next year’s South East Bus Festival and we’re looking forward to welcoming another great selection of buses and coaches from around the south east and beyond.
“Each year around half of the vehicles attending have not been to any of our previous events and between 30 and 40 of those present are used on the free bus service around the showground. With the Heritage Transport Show taking place on the same site, there will be getting on for 1,000 vehicles on display, so there should be something of interest to be enjoyed by anyone interested in a wide variety of different types of vehicle.
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