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Bus services tend to be focussed on the bus station in the town centre, although the redevelopment of Lowestoft railway station aims to make the station a key interchange for bus routes as well. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] Traffic congestion, especially difficulty crossing Lake Lothing which cuts the town in two, can cause delays to bus services. [ 4 ]
'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 driver took avoiding action after a car drove into its path, causing the bus to veer off the road. [7] On 23 February 2017, an X1 bus crashed into a roadside ditch and overturned near Wisbech as a result of high winds, gusting up to 80mph in the area around the time of the crash, caused by Storm Doris. Eleven people were injured. [8]
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 ...
Under the control of the National Bus Company, Cambus Ltd. was set up when the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company was split in preparation for privatisation. The company was incorporated on 8 June 1984; it took over Eastern Counties' bus and National Express coach operations from garages in Cambridgeshire and parts of Suffolk (Newmarket and Haverhill) on 9 September 1984. [2]
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 ]
The line from Reedham to Lowestoft was added in 1847 by Samuel Morton Peto as part of the Norfolk Railway. [ citation needed ] Finally, the northern route from Norwich to Great Yarmouth via Acle was added in 1883 by the Great Eastern Railway , opening from Breydon Junction to Acle on 12 March, and through to Brundall on 1 June.
Seen at the East Anglia Transport Museum, summer 2006. In the background is the rear of former Solingen, Germany trolleybus No. 1. The East Anglia Transport Museum is an open-air transport museum, with numerous historic public transport vehicles (including many in full working order). It is located in Carlton Colville a suburb of Lowestoft ...