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Arriva Southend Ltd is a division of transport group Arriva's Southern Counties subsidiary which operates services in and around the Southend-on-Sea and Grays areas of Essex. They operate most routes east of Southend, and are in direct competition with two other local operators, First Essex and Stephensons of Essex.

History

The company was formerly owned and operated by Southend Borough Council and was known as Southend Corporation Transport or Southend Transport.

Arriva took over control of Southend Transport in August 1998 and renamed it Arriva serving Southend. Although the 'serving Southend' caption has now been phased out, it can still be seen on the side of some of their buses.

Following the takeover, the old garage was demolished and a new one constructed in Short Street, Southend-on-Sea. Green Line routes X1 and X10 were changed to route number 721 and finally withdrawn, with control taken over by Stephensons of Essex who have returned the route to its original X1/X10 numbering.[1] Stephensons has announced that they are to withdraw the X1 service from Friday 11th July 2008.[2]

A restructuring in 2002 saw overall control of Arriva Colchester and Arriva Southend Ltd pass to Arriva Southern Counties.

Current routes

For a list of all bus services in Essex please see List of bus routes in Essex.

Southend routes:

  • 1: Shoeburyness, Blackgate Road - North Shoebury - Thorpe Bay - Bournes Green - Southchurch - Southend - Leigh - Hadleigh - Thundersley - Rayleigh Rail Station
  • 4: Southend Travel Centre - Southchurch - Bournes Green - North Shoebury - Great Wakering - Landwick Police Lodge
  • 4A: Southend Travel Centre - Southchurch - Bournes Green - Great Wakering - Landwick Police Lodge or Shoeburyness East Beach
  • 5: Southend Travel Centre - Leigh-on-Sea - Hadleigh - Thundersley - New Thundersley - Pitsea - Basildon - Basildon Hospital - via A13 to - Chadwell St Mary - Grays - South Stifford - West Thurrock - Lakeside Bus Station
  • 6A: Belfairs, Woodcutters - North Leigh - Leigh-on-Sea Railway Station
  • 7: Shoeburyness, Renown - North Shoebury - Thorpe Bay - Southchurch - Southend - Prittlewell - Southend Hospital - Rochford - Golden Cross - Ashingdon - Hockley - Rayleigh Rail Station
  • 8: Shoeburyness, Renown - North Shoebury - Thorpe Bay - Southchurch - Southend - Prittlewell - Southend Hospital - Rochford - Golden Cross - Hawkwell - Hockley - Rayleigh Rail Station
  • 9: Shoeburyness, East Beach - North Shoebury - Cambridge Town - Thorpe Esplanade - Southend - Prittlewell - Nobles Green - Eastwood - Rayleigh Rail Station
  • 10: Paglesham Eastend, Plough and Sail Pub - Canewdon - Ashingdon - Lower Hockley - Hullbridge - Rayleigh High Street
  • 13: Southend Travel Centre - Sutton Road - Temple Sutton, Cokefield Avenue
  • 17: Southend Travel Centre - Clifftown - Westcliff - Southend Hospital - Prittlewell - Eastwood, Tesco
  • 29: Southend Travel Centre - Prittlewell - North Leigh - Belfairs, Belgrave Road
  • 60: Southend Travel Centre - Sutton Road - Rochford - Great Stambridge - Canewdon, Loftmans Corner

Grays routes:

Transport for London (TfL) contraced routes:

In March 2008, all commercially run routes from the Grays garage (route 373 from Grays to Upminster and route 383 from Ockendon to Basildon) were withdrawn, with buses used for these commercially run routes moving to Southend garage. This coincided with the extension of the number 5 service from Basildon to Lakeside to partially replace the withdrawn route 383 service. The Grays garage now only operates the Transport for London (TfL) contraced routes and the Grays routes are operated from the Southend garage.

In May 2008, the number 17 service was introduced and runs hourly during the middle of the day on Thursdays.

On the 8th June 2008, Arriva Southend increased the daytime service frequency of the number 9 service from every 15 minutes to every 12 minutes during the middle of the day on weekdays and Saturdays.

Routes 5, 9, 13, and 29 are usually operated by low floor easy access buses, which make up the majority of Arriva Southend's single decker fleet.

In 2008, Arriva Southend began branding some of its low-floor buses for routes with red and yellow vinyl stickers on the side of its buses, beginning with route 29 as "the twenty-nine", then route 13 as "...the sutton shuttle..." and route 5 as "Basildon direct". The following buses at Southend have had route branding applied:

  • Route 5 - 3318. Plus others unknown at the moment.
  • Route 13 - 3307 and 3308.
  • Route 29 - 3391, 3392, 3421 and 3431. These buses were also named by students at the Fairways Junior School in Belfairs. They are; Pride of Fairways, Friends of the Fairways, Bus Lightyear and Bluebird.

Bus fleet in service

Arriva Southend currently has a fleet of 69 buses in service, consisting of 46 single-deckers (34 low-floor), 23 double-deckers, one Ford Transit staff shuttle van, F580, one Ford Transit mechanics van, V168 and one forklift truck, FLT80.

Single deckers:

Double deckers:

External links

References

  1. ^ The X1 Story
  2. ^ Stephensons of Essex (May 17, 2008). "Stephensons of Essex London Link Express". Retrieved 2008-06-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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