SEBF returns in April

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Postponed from this year, next year’s SEBF will celebrate 40 years of Metrobus. This Leyland Lynx was new to the operator in 1992 as one of relatively few single deckers in the fleet. RICHARD LEWIS

The popular South East Bus Festival will be back next year, taking place at Kent Showground near Maidstone on Saturday 6 April. The organisers say they are looking forward to welcoming well over 100 coaches and buses as well as several thousand visitors on the day. The well-established event, the twelfth since 2011, will once again be part of Kent County Agricultural Society’s Heritage Transport Show, which normally attracts 700 or more cars, commercials, military vehicles, motorbikes and tractors.

The showground offers a vast amount of space on which to display a large number of coaches and buses and the internal road layout allows a frequent free bus service to run between different parts of the site, giving the opportunity for people to ride on buses that they might not otherwise get a chance to sample.

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