During the summer holidays we met with the team at Bluestar bus at there in Eastleigh which is homed to 86 fleet of buses including there franchise Unilink and 15 routes which is based from routes like the Bluestar 1 to the Bluestar 18


We met with Bluestar operations manager Andy Shaw who alongside with the head of driving school at Bluestar showed us around the site

We saw the area where the buses are maintained and where things even such as where the phone single comes to you might see in the driver cab that they have a phone well that is used to report to the depot on any possible disruption whether it a break down or a passenger issue what was also cool at the time was on day during the visit we also had another visit from another member of the Go South Coast family more bus in Bournemouth & Poole

We also headed into part of the site where the buses have there MOT to make sure that they are all safe to be on the road!

We also had went into the yard where the buses are kept overnight we were shown where they clean the buses both underneath and in the engine before it has it MOT as well as where the buses gets it petrol and where the buses are washed with its state of the art bus wash

We also were given the opportunity to take the control and drive the trainee bluestar bus

But it wasn't just the Bluestar depot we had also got to visit we had also was given a tour of the UK Leading bus & Coach refurbishment manufacture Hants & Dorset Trim (HD trim) which is also owned by Go South Coast

Which dose work for London Company's including

Go Ahead London, Arriva, RATP, London Transit & London London and sulives buses

and others operators across the UK like Cardiff bus, first bus not all across the UK e.g City Red, and a tiny bit for stagecoach

and obviously Go South Coast which includes Bluestar, Unilink, More bus, Salisbury Reds, Doramy, Southern Vecits, Swindon bus company, excelsior & Tourist

Here is one of the things they do here which is do things like replacing the seats

oh and clean them so when you do get on a bus and you smack them no dust will come out of the seats

they also do paints like painting buses as well and a lot more!

and even help when switching buses to another operator

One of our favourite ways to shows is Salisbury Reds 2718 HF64 BPU which now operates with Bluestar

We really enjoyed our visit to the Bluestar & Unilink Depot in Eastleigh and had a wonderful time we would like to thank Bluestar & the staff there who really did give us a wonderful experience there