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Essex Airlink is the brand given to three airport bus services run by First Essex.The brand was relaunched at Stansted Airport, England, on 17 February 2020. [1] There are three routes, X10, X20 and X30, which start their journey in Basildon bus station, Colchester and Southend Travel Centre, respectively.
Bus services in Wickford are operated primarily by First Essex, but also by Stephensons of Essex and NIBS Buses. Routes include: [12] 14 Wickford - Hanningfields - Chelmsford; 25 Basildon - Southend; 251 Warley - Brentwood - Wickford; X10 Basildon - Chelmsford - Stansted Airport
Colchester depot operates routes under both the "Essex Bus" and the "Colchester Shuttles" Brands. In 2022, First Essex announced the withdrawal of many routes to introduce the Shuttles branding, Colchester operates the following services as part of Colchester Shuttles. S1, S2, S3, S4, S6, S7, S8 and S9. Services S5 & S10 were added in 2024.
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]
On 9 October, the X31 was increased to 7 times a day, Monday to Fridays, increasing the coach fleet to 50. The last short term hired coach was returned to Burnley on 14 January 1985. On 25 January, the coach fleet reached 60, with a new delivery and 6 more on order. At the time, the Southend Transport bus fleet was only 63 vehicles. [1]
The railways developed networks of feeder bus services in the 1920s, but the legal powers of the railway companies (after 1922 the Big Four) to run bus services were unclear and each promoted private legislation (the Road Powers Acts of 1928) to obtain clarity. One result was that the railways were in future to refrain from taking a controlling ...
Basildon: Force start ... only a single route started on 25 June 1914. ... [44] and by 1985 the coaches outnumbered the number of buses operated. [45]
The Shenfield to Southend Victoria line was originally electrified using 1.5 kV DC overhead line electrification (OLE) on 31 December 1956. This was changed to 6.25 kV AC in November 1960 and to 25 kV AC on 25 January 1979. [1] There were two sidings at Ramsden Bellhouse, 2.75 miles east of Billericay station on the 'down' (north) side of the line.