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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. At first it ran between the Lowestoft Bus Station and Market Gates in Great ...
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; [34] 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. [35] [36]
Since July 2014, the route has been made up of two sections. Before this date, buses would run the entirety of the route, but since July 2014 services operate between Peterborough and Norwich (as excel) and Norwich and Lowestoft (X1) separately, with all services in both directions terminating at Norwich Bus Station. Passengers travelling ...
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]
The plan was to lengthen the tramway, the trolleybus route and the narrow gauge railway, and to nearly double the site area, at an estimated cost of one million pounds. A new exhibition hall was to be built devoted to Eastern Coach Works, a major builder of bus and train bodywork in nearby Lowestoft until it closed in 1987. [5]
The buttons [3] and cap badges [4] of Lowestoft Corporation Tramways depicted an angel with a halo and wings holding a shield, containing a crown above a rose, based on the borough coat of arms, illustrated in this postcard. In the late 1920s the Corporation decided to replace the trams with motor buses rather than renew the infrastructure.
The company was founded in Lowestoft, Suffolk in May 1912, with two routes. One route operated in Suffolk, with the other operating over 200 miles away in County Durham, between Bishop Auckland and Durham. During the 1920s, the company expanded in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, as well as County Durham, Northumberland and North Yorkshire.
The A47 enters Suffolk as its route heads south into Lowestoft, along restricted 30MPH roads. As the A47 intersects with the A1144 in the centre of Lowestoft, it branches off into two routes. The main A47 branches past the towns docks , where it enters a section of 3 lanes controlled by lane tidal flow lights , which predetermine which of the ...