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Basildon Bus Services: 1956.


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As operated by Eastern National Omnibus Company Limited
Service:Route:
    2Southend - Pitsea - Corringham - Grays
    2ASouthend - Pitsea - Nevendon - West Horndon/Alma Factory - Romford
    2BSouthend - Pitsea - Homesteads - Grays
    2CSouthend - Pitsea - Vange - Corringham - Coryton
    14Southend - Arterial Road - Nevendon - West Horndon/Alma Factory - Romford
    27South Benfleet - North Benfleet - Wickford (Monday only)
    34Chelmsford - Billericay - Wickford - Rectory Road - Pitsea Station
    51/53Harwich/Clacton - Colchester - Chelmsford - Laindon - Horndon-on-the-Hill - Orsett - Grays - Tilbury
    231*Corringham - Fobbing - Pitsea Station (renumbered 230 on 9/6/1957)
    231*Pitsea Station - Rectory Road - North Benfleet - Wickford
    232*Pitsea Station - Pound Lane - North Benfleet
    233*Pitsea Station - Vange - Church Road (Basildon)- Rectory Road - Gardiners Lane
    234*Pitsea Broadway - Vange - Nevendon - Wickford (Monday & Saturday only)
    235*Pitsea Station - Hadleigh
    236*Pitsea Broadway - Coryton (extended to start from Pitsea station from 4/5/1958)
    242Basildon (Whitmore Way/Fremnells) - Rectory Road - Pitsea - Vange - Corringham - Coryton
    244Basildon (Whitmore Way/Fremnells) - Timberlog Lane - Vange - Pitsea Station
    245Pitsea Broadway - Corringham - Bata Shoe Factory East Tilbury
    246Laindon (Fortune-of-War) - Horndon - Bata Shoe Factory East Tilbury
    247Wickford - Runwell Hospital (Thur-Sun)
    248Basildon (Whitmore Way/Grimston Road) - Rectory Road - Pitsea - Homesteads - Grays
    251Wood Green - Romford - Brentwood - Billericay - Wickford - Battlesbridge - Rayleigh - Southend
    251Wickford - Shotgate - Rayleigh - Southend (Peak Journeys only)
    253Brentwood - Billericay - Ramsden Heath - Ramsden Bellhouse - Wickford - Shotgate - Rawreth (Carpenters Arms)
    254Brentwood - Billericay - Great Burstead - Laindon Station
    255Brentwood - Billericay - Little Burstead - Laindon Station
    256Billericay (Sun Corner) - Sunnymede Estate
    257Laindon Station - Rectory Road (Basildon) - Nevendon - Wickford - South Hanningfield - Rettendon (Mondays only)
    258Laindon Station - Wash Road - Pipps Hill - Basildon Road - Church Road (Arterial Road) - Laindon (Circular) Garage journey via Rectory Road (Basildon), & Timberlog Lane to Vange, Bull
    259Laindon Station - Langdon Hills
    260Ongar - Blackmore - Brentwood - West Horndon - Bulphan - Dunton - Laindon Station

Services marked with an (*) were former services operated by Campbell's of Pitsea prior to their acquisition by Eastern National in the early 1950s.

Please note: These bus services were for the year 1956.

Page added: 2003
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Text researched and written 2003.
Copyright © 2003, B. Cox - Basildon History Online. All rights reserved.
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