Buses in

Lowestoft Lowestoft ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk (district), East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . As the List of extreme points of the United Kingdom, most easterly UK se ...

in the

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provide public transport in and around the town. Buses were first introduced in the town by Lowestoft Corporation Tramways in 1927 and replaced original tram services by 1931. The corporation became

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in 1974 and bus services taken over by Eastern Counties in 1977.Lowestoft Corporation Transport
Peter Gould. Retrieved 16 January 2013. The bus garage is on Rotterdam Road is still standing. After bus deregulation in 1986 a range of operators took over services. In 2013 bus services in the town were operated by First Eastern Counties, Anglian Bus and Coaches, Nightingales of Beccles, Belle Coaches and Ambassador Travel.Lowestoft & surrounding area
, Suffolk onboard, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 16 January 2013. Routes within the town generally operate along key corridors linking the town centre with areas around the edge of the town.Lowestoft transport strategy
, Suffolk County Council, 29 June 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2013. Services generally operate regularly during the day, becoming significantly less frequent during the evening. Some services, such as an orbital route around the town, are part funded by public money.Lowestoft's £6.25m for transport but no third road bridge
BBC Suffolk news website, 13 October 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2013. Bus services tend to be focussed on the bus station in the town centre, although the redevelopment of

Lowestoft railway station Lowestoft railway station (formerly Lowestoft Central) serves the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is the eastern terminus of the East Suffolk Line from and is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines from (the other being ). Lowestoft is ...

aims to make the station a key interchange for bus routes as well.Lowestoft railway station's £1m interchange work
BBC Suffolk news website, 25 January 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2013. Traffic congestion, especially difficulty crossing Lake Lothing which cuts the town in two, can cause delays to bus services. Bus routes also connect the town to

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth ( ), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside resort, seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. Its fishing industry, m ...

and

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as well as to surrounding villages and market towns and tourist destinations such as Pleasurewood Hills.Lowestoft bus services receive revamp in push towards sustainable transport
''Eastern Daily Press'', 12 May 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.

Anglian Bus

Anglian Bus, formed in 1981, was a bus service that ran services in

until November 2017 when the company merged with KonectBus. The service provided the 601 route in the town, which later changed to the 61, then 7 and back to 61. At first it ran between the Lowestoft Bus Station and Market Gates in

. The route then expanded to include

Kessingland Kessingland is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk (district), East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located around south of Lowestoft on the east coast of the United Kingdom. It is of interest to archaeologis ...

and

Southwold Southwold is a seaside town and civil parish on the North Sea, in the East Suffolk District, East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It lies at the mouth of the River Blyth, Suffolk, River Blyth in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths ...

. A new route that shadowed the 61, called the 61A, was formed that took passengers straight to Pleasurewood Hills and into the park. This route was discontinued not long after it was formed. 61 merged with 7, the service taking passengers from

, to provide one long route from

via

and Yarmouth. A year or so later, the two routes separated again.

First Eastern Counties

First Eastern Counties is a division of

FirstGroup FirstGroup plc is a British multi-national transport group, based in Aberdeen, Scotland.Excel franchise, runs between

and

via

and

Acle Acle ( ) is a market town on the River Bure on the The Broads, Norfolk Broads in Norfolk, located halfway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. It has the only bridge across the River Bure between Wroxham and Great Yarmouth.Ordnance Survey (2005). ...

as well as three feeder routes for the Excel: X2, X21 and X22, which run on a more direct route to Norwich and includes rural towns and villages such as Barnby and Loddon. Coastal Clippers, 1A, 1 and 99, also depart from the bus station.

References

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