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However in 1945, the Corporation, Westcliff and Eastern National Omnibus Company agreed to share the routes up to the boundary of Canvey, Vange and Wickford, called the Southend Transport Pool and in 1946 the Regional Transport Commissioners allowed the Corporation to operate outside of Southend for the first time. However the objections of ...
Essex Airlink is the brand given to two 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.
First Essex was criticised by passengers and members of the Southend Area Bus Users' Group for withdrawing services which it considered no longer economically viable when Southend Borough Council withdrew bus subsidies as part of budget cuts in 2005. First said it was due to low passenger numbers, even when parts of the route were profitable. [4]
The company expanded outside London, first in Essex (1913), where the company bought the bus operations of the Great Eastern Railway around Chelmsford, and later in Bedfordshire (1919), Gloucestershire (1919), Somerset (1920), Dorset (1921), and Devon and Cornwall (1927). [2]
Southend Transport was involved in a bus war with Thamesway (now part of First Essex). [2] Southend Transport was sold by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council to the British Bus group in June 1993 [3] [4] for a reported £1, [5] which in turn was taken over by the Cowie group. [1] [6]
Grays depot switched to all Transport for London services after Arriva Southend withdrew both commercial routes 373 and 383 in the Grays area, partially replacing them by extending route 5 from Southend-on-Sea. Routes 44 and 150, the remaining services in the Grays area, are operated under contract to Thurrock Council. The buses used for these ...
The UK coach market was deregulated in 1980 under the Transport Act 1980 and the X1 service was started the same year. It ran every two hours between Southend and Reading via Basildon, Socketts Heath, Rainham, Dagenham, East Ham, Canning Town, Aldgate, Piccadilly, Kensington, Hammersmith, Heathrow Airport, Slough, Maidenhead and Twyford, and was jointly operated by Southend Transport and ...
The first open top buses in the United Kingdom were regular double deck buses, but these were later replaced by buses with enclosed top decks. [clarification needed] One of the first operators to provide open top buses for its seaside routes was Brighton, Hove & District in 1936. [1]