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Coastal Clipper buses also operate on services 1 and 1A, serving Hopton-on-Sea and Lowestoft via Martham, Hemsby, Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston-on-Sea; [37] service 1A would receive recognition in June 2023 in a guide by Snaptrip as one of the most scenic bus routes in the United Kingdom. [38] [39]
A large number of other bus companies run local services throughout the region. The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway opened in August 2011 as a dedicated bus route linking the centre of Cambridge with Cambridge Science Park, St Ives and Huntingdon. [25] The 13.3 miles (21.4 km) route is believed to be the longest guided busway in the world. [25]
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. At first it ran between the Lowestoft Bus Station and Market Gates in Great ...
Prior to February 2018, the route also extended from Norwich to Lowestoft in Suffolk via Great Yarmouth; this section of the route has since been replaced by Coastlink branded services X1 and X2. As of June 2021, the Excel route itself operates between Peterborough , King's Lynn and Norwich , with variations A , B , C and D providing different ...
The route has a regular hourly passenger service from Ipswich to Lowestoft, operated by three- or four-coach Class 755 bi-mode multiple units. Services from Felixstowe operate between Westerfield and Ipswich East Suffolk Junction on the south end of the line, and this section is also extremely busy with container trains to and from the Port of ...
Stagecoach also ran the route 1 with a half-hourly service on Christmas Day in 2019. [29] A proposal to implement a new bus lane along Alexandra Road in North Camp was raised in 2021. [30] The works were completed in 2023. From 4 January 2022, in light of the national shortage of bus drivers, route 1's frequency was reduced to every 12 minutes ...
Arriva Southend has been criticised by users and the Southend Area Bus Users' Group for withdrawing services which it considered no longer economically viable due to low passenger numbers (even when parts of the route were profitable) when Southend Borough Council withdrew bus subsidies of up to £6 per passenger in 2005. [10]
[7] [5] [10] A second route was opened on 1 June 1859 with the completion of the Lowestoft and Beccles Railway which entered the town via a swing bridge over Oulton Broad, where a 1.75-mile (2.82-kilometre) freight line branched off to the south bank of Lowestoft harbour.