Simonds of Botesdale

Simonds Coach & Travel is a bus and coach operator based in Diss. They currently operate nine bus services in the Diss, Norwich, Long Stratton and Bury St Edmunds areas of East Anglia as well as coach charter services and school buses
using a fleet of 52 buses and coaches. under the branding of Simonds CountryLink. In 2012, they won a London 2012 Olympics contract to operate four coaches during a three-week period.
The company currently operates services between Diss and Ipswich under contract to Suffolk County Council (previously operated by Galloway between 2015 and 2019).
The company previously operated, under contract to Norfolk County Council all services between Diss and Norwich including its flagship route is the service 1 which called at Burston, Long Stratton, Tasburgh, Flordon, Newton Flotman and travelled into the city via Ipswich Road and Norwich City College. This competes head to head with 38 route, which travels only as far as Long Stratton. Currently Simonds operates all services on Saturday and some services Monday to Friday with the rest being operated by Konectbus.
 
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