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{{Infobox Bus transit
|name            = Nu-Venture
|image           = Nu-Venture bus L350 (J350 XET) 1991 Leyland Olympian Alexander RL, Showbus 2009.jpg
|image_size      = 200px
|image_caption   = [[Walter Alexander Coachbuilders|Alexander RL]] bodied [[Leyland Olympian]] in September 2009
|founded         = 1980 c.
|headquarters    = [[Aylesford, Kent|Aylesford]]
|locale          =
|service_area    = [[Kent]]
|service_type    = Bus services
|hubs            =
|stations        =
|fleet           = 30 (November 2013)
|routes          = 42
|website         = [http://www.nu-venture.co.uk/ www.nu-venture.co.uk]
}}

'''Nu-Venture'''<ref>[http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/01239389 Companies House extract company no 1239389] Nu-Venture Coaches Limited</ref> is a bus company in [[Aylesford, Kent|Aylesford]], [[Kent]], England.

==History==
[[File:KX53SDU NU Venture Otford (42389511751).jpg|thumb|[[Plaxton Pointer|Plaxton Pointer II]] bodied [[Dennis Dart]] in May 2018]]

Nu-Venture was founded in the 1960s as a coach company,<ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture Coach - Flickr|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/peagreenbus/6421243393|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture Coach - Flickr|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/quicksilver_coaches/14985839806|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture coach|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/45726467@N02/14349937984|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref> They operated coach tour holidays all over Europe, and in the 1980s they operated a London commuter service,<ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture London bus|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/45726467@N02/14164208660|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture London bus - Flickr|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/45726467@N02/14164209070}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture Coach - Flickr|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/45726467@N02/14164135769|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture Coach - Flickr|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/45726467@N02/14164128089|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref> but coach hire stopped in 2010 and the London commuter service stopped around 2004.

Nu-Venture now have bus services in [[Maidstone]], [[Tonbridge]], [[Tunbridge Wells]] and the [[Medway Towns]].

Nu-Venture used to use [[step-entrance bus|step entrance]] [[double-decker bus|double]] and [[single-decker bus|single]] decker buses but in 2014 these were replaced with [[low-floor bus|low floor]] double and single deckers.

==Services==
As at August 2018, Nu-Venture operated 42 routes<ref>{{cite web|title=Timetables|url=http://www.nu-venture.co.uk/page4.html|publisher=Timetables|accessdate=25 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905040015/http://nu-venture.co.uk/page4.html|archive-date=5 September 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Incidents==
In November 2012 a [[Plaxton Prestige]] bodied [[DAF SB220]] caught fire in [[Blue Bell Hill]] village, there were no one on the bus except the driver.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nu-Venture R988FNW|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/60541960@N07/8183167807/in/photolist-dt7SG8-dt84MU-dt851L|accessdate=11 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bus goes up in flames at Blue Bell Hill|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/home/2012/november/12/bus_goes_up_in_flames.aspx|publisher=Kent Online|accessdate=11 October 2013}}</ref><br />
In November 2012 a bus driver had to be rescued after his [[double decker bus]] blown over into a ditch trapping him in the bus in [[Cliffe, Kent|Cliffe]], there were no one on board except the driver.<ref>{{cite web|title=Driver rescued after bus blown off Cliffe road by wind|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/home/2012/november/21/bus_crash.aspx|publisher=Kent Online|accessdate=11 October 2013}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="190px" heights="130px" perrow="3">
File:Nu-Venture R720 BNF.jpg|thumb|[[Marshall Capital]] bodied [[Dennis Dart]] in March 2008 in Nu-Venture's previous livery
File:Nu-Venture J268UDW.jpg|[[Leyland Lynx]] in [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]] in October 2009
File:Nu Venture fiesta blue Maidstone Centenary bus.jpg|Former London Transport [[Leyland Titan (B15)|Leyland Titan]] T857 (A857 SUL), pictured wearing Maidstone Corporation Transport centenary livery applied in 2004 by Nu-Venture.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Baldock|first1=Eric|title=Maidstone Corporation transport|date=2012|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|isbn=1445608200|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzyIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lXz6U8vDO-qf7Aab5YHIDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref>
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
*{{cite web|title=Kent signs for improved punctuality|url=http://www.busandcoach.com/newspage.aspx?id=7554&categoryid=0|publisher=Bus&Coach.com|accessdate=19 August 2014|date=6 March 2013|archive-date=20 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820050904/http://www.busandcoach.com/newspage.aspx?id=7554&categoryid=0|url-status=dead}}
*{{cite book|last1=Baldock|first1=Eric|title=Maidstone brough buses : 1974-1992|date=2010|publisher=Amberley Publ.|location=Stroud, Gloucesterhire|isbn=9781445601403|edition=1. publ.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3aIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT245&hl=en&sa=X&ei=unz6U6b8KvOy7AbTt4DwBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false}}

==Other websites==
*{{Commons category-inline|Nu-Venture (bus company)|Nu-Venture}}
*[http://www.nu-venture.co.uk/ Company website]
*[http://www.showbus.com/gallery/lt/to.htm Showbus gallery]
*[https://www.flickr.com/groups/1863650@N20/ Flickr gallery]

[[Category:Bus transport]]