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July 2026

We have moved!

 

We now have a brand-new web site with all the usual content and lots more. 

Please go to

 

www.essexbus.org

 

and update any bookmarks.

 

There is a dedicated Archive section

there, go direct to:

 

https://essexbus.org/eba/home/

 

As we transition to the new site, the articles listed below remain accessible here and are not yet loaded to the new site.

 

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

 

·         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

 

·         Service 164 Royston - Buntingford — Bishop’s Stortford – Alan Osborne looks at this service that linked EN’s Eastern and Midland areas

 

 

Southend area services

 

·         Public Transport Services in the Southend-on-Sea District, 1900 - 1955 - an ebook by Richard Hayden

 

 

Essex Independents

 

·         Publicity review – 2001

 

·         Notes on Thames Weald and Dr Heffernan – by David Harman

 

                                                            

Personal recollections

 

These are now all available, plus lots of new additions, at

 

https://essexbus.org/wotb/home/