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Anglian Bus in Lowestoft Anglian Bus , formed in 1981, was a bus service that ran services in Lowestoft until November 2017 when the company merged with KonectBus . The service provided the 601 route in the town, which later changed to the 61, then 7 and back to 61.
'First bus East of England is a bus operator providing services in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern England. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup and has five depots in operating areas spread out across East Anglia. These areas are Norwich, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and King's Lynn. [1]
The bus station provides the main interchange point between the western excel route between Peterborough, Wisbech, King's Lynn, Swaffham, Dereham and Norwich, and the eastern X1 route between Norwich, Acle, Great Yarmouth, Gorleston-on-Sea and Lowestoft; originally these 2 routes operated as 1 service (X1), but was split in into the 2 routes ...
A similar incident almost occurred around the same time on the Acle Straight between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, resulting in the bus having to be evacuated, and services were subsequently suspended for the day. On 26 June 2018, an Excel bus was involved in a collision with a lorry on the A47 in Guyhirn. The bus driver and a passenger were ...
United began a coach building business at the Lowestoft site in 1920. [3] In 1931, the East Anglian operations of United were hived off into a new company, Eastern Counties Omnibus Company , and Eastern Counties inherited the coach works - now concentrating on building bus bodies, with a workforce of over 600 people. [ 4 ]
Martham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 10 mi (16 km) north-west of the town of Great Yarmouth and 19 mi (31 km) north-east of the city of Norwich. [1] The villages name means 'marten homestead/village' or 'weasel/marten hemmed-in land'.
The lines were still in situ in the depot's shed and yard during the 1960s when the depot was being used for Lowestoft Corporation buses. [8] In 2009 the shed building was still being used, but not as a shelter for public transport vehicles. Located in Norwich Road, adjacent to the depot, was Lowestoft Corporation's electricity generating station.
The building there survive, but, in 1979, it was heavily modified to become part of a new leisure centre. Service buses still terminate outside and locals still refer to it as West Mersea bus station. Until 1969, Eastern National also had a one bus outstation in Victoria Place, Brightlingsea. This was acquired with the business of Berry & Sons ...