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Essex Bus Magazine includes a selection of historical and current
articles and some special issues devoted entirely to historical articles. Progressively over time we intend to build
an archive of these articles, for future research. Initially only a small selection is
available, listed by operator/topic.
All articles listed here are copyright Essex Bus Enthusiasts Group and
may not be reproduced without our prior consent. Arriva Southend/Southend Transport ·
The closure of Arriva
Southend’s London
Road garage in January 2000 ·
Southend Transport special Christmas/New Year
services, 1971 - 1999 City Coach Company ·
The 251 story 1927 – 2000
– Chris Stewart presents a brief history of this historic route ·
The City
Influence – Chris Stewart’s review of the remains of the erstwhile City
Coach Company ·
Blue Brick Bridge
– the story of why City were not allowed to operate double deckers under this
bridge in Shotgate, on the direct Southend to London route Eastern National ·
Transfer
of Grays Area Services to London Transport, 1933 - 1951 (book), Alan
Osborne ·
50
years of EN’s Lodekkas – Chris Stewart’s history of EN’s LDs and FLFs (not
forgetting an LDL and 2 FSs!). This is
an article from our magazine, published in March 2004, not the
complete book published subsequently ·
2826
– a unique FLF – Peter Oughton remembers the glass-fibre panelled FLF ·
Eastern
National’s VR’s – Chris Stewart chronicles the history of the Bristol VR
in the EN & Thamesway fleets ·
Eastern National & Thamesway Fleet Record, Volume 2
– 1990 to 1996
- 80 pages, A4 - download
as a pdf (external link) ·
Chelmsford
to Brentwood – 80 years of service – Chris Stewart reviews operations on
this important corridor ·
Village Links
old & new – Chris Stewart looks at the Essex CC Village Link services
in the Brentwood area Southend area services ·
Public
Transport Services in the Southend-on-Sea District, 1900 - 1955 - an
ebook by Richard Hayden Essex Independents ·
Publicity
review – 2001 ·
Amos of Belchamp St Paul
– the end of an era by Alan Osborne ·
Amos of Belchamp St
Paul – earlier memories from Alan Watkins ·
Campbell’s of Pitsea
- our Fact File history of this operator ·
Coastal Red - the story of this late 1980s operation in north east Essex - pdf
download of our Fact File booklet ·
Notes on Thames
Weald and Dr Heffernan – by David Harman Personal recollections The links below are currently defunct, pending a relaunch of the Working On The Buses website. Meanwhile, if you are interested in any, please e-mail us and we can send you
pdf copies. ·
The Revd. Terry Challis wrote a series of
articles about his memories of buses in south Essex in the early 1950s and
then his experiences working for EN in schedules and later as a conductor and
driver - to see the complete series, click here. ·
Mick Parsons has written about his days as a conductor and
driver at Wood Green - click here to access them. ·
Not generally published in Essex Bus News, there are more staff
recollections at: Ø Ian Banks - SCT in the 1960s Ø John Bashford - ST X1 service Ø Richard Delahoy - ST in the 1980s Ø Ted Miles - EN in the 1960s Ø Gareth Morgan - SCT conductor, 1980s Ø James Sadd - ST X1 service Ø Alan Watkins - City Coach Co & many others ESSEX BUS ARCHIVE In a major development, we have digitised all of the Group’s
magazines/news sheets back to issue 1 (1964), Group publications and a
variety of other documents, as pdf files.
Copies are already available to members on request and in due course
we will be launching a new, separate website to make the whole collection
freely available. Watch out for
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