Private company

Arriva Herts & Essex

Subsidiary bus operator of Arriva UK Bus

Arriva Herts & Essex is a bus operator providing services in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, with services extending to Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Greater London. Until 2002 its operations included Colchester. It is a subsidiary of Arriva UK Bus.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1998Founded1
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Photo: SFletcher06, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Arriva Herts & Essex is a bus operator providing services in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, with services extending to Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Greater London. Until 2002 its operations included Colchester. It is a subsidiary of Arriva UK Bus.2

Corporate structure

Arriva Herts & Essex is part of a group headed by Arriva. 50 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Watford was a depot of London Country Bus Services (North West) (one of the companies into which London Country Bus Services was divided in 1986), acquired by Luton & District Transport in 1990.

From Wikipedia’s article on Arriva Herts & Essex, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

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Timeline

  1. 1998Founded Founded1

Sources

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