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We are making changes to the Essex bus network from Sunday 31st August 2025.
Key details:
Ahead of the start of the new school term, beginning next month, we’ll be introducing a range of service improvements across our region on Sunday 31st August.
| Service: | Journey: | What's changing? |
| X10 | Airlink - Basildon to Stansted Airport | Monday to Friday - MORNING journeys will depart Basildon earlier - to improve route punctuality. |
| X20 | Airlink - Braintree to Stansted Airport | The 08:35 journey will now terminate at Osborne Street, Colchester. The 10:40 journey will now commence at High Street, Colchester. |
| X30 | Airlink - Southend to Stansted Airport | NEW pick-up/drop-off points on London Road, Rayleigh - The bus stops are called: opp Electricity Board and o/s Electricity Board. No change to timetable. |
| 9 | Basildon to Brentwood | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 21/21S | Southend to Canvey Island | Revised timetable - to operate on a hourly basis Monday to Saturday (with additional journeys at school times). The 21 service will now operate (east of Southend city centre) via Woodgrange Drive and past Thorpe Bay station. Following Great Wakering Church the 21 service continues to Shoeburyness East Beach and no longer to Landwick. |
| 26 | Southend to Shoeburyness | The 26 service will now operate between Southend and Shoeburyness East Beach ONLY - on a hourly basis - via Woodgrange Drive, Lifstan Way, Bournes Green Chase, North Shoebury Road, Maplin Way North and Campfield Road. |
| 25/825 | Basildon to Southend | Minor changes to the timetable - a small number of underutilised journeys have been withdrawn. |
| 27/27A/827 | Southend to Canvey Island | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 28 | Southend to Basildon | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 625 | Chelmsford to Southend Schools | Minor changes to the timetable. Service 625 will now operate via Eastwood Kent Elm. Progress Road will no longer be served. |
| 725 | Basildon to Southend Schools | WITHDRAWN - NO LONGER IN OPERATION |
| C2 | Chelmsford to Broomfield Hospital | Minor changes to the timetable - EVENING ONLY |
| 31/331/332/333 | Chelmsford to Burnham-on-Crouch | EXTRA JOURNEYS - FUNDED BY BSIP (Love Your Bus) - The NEW morning and afternoon journeys are indicated on the revised 31/331/332/333 timetable. |
| 37 | Warley to Bishops Hall Estate | The Monday to Saturday service has been WITHDRAWN – NO LONGER IN OPERATION. An alternative service to use between Warley and Brentwood is the 351 service. The Sunday service continues to operate. |
| 70/170/370 | Chelmsford to Braintree | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 71/X71/371 | Chelmsford to Colchester | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 351 | Chelmsford to Brentwood | EXTRA JOURNEYS - FUNDED BY BSIP (Love Your Bus) - The NEW Monday to Friday off-peak journeys are indicated on the revised 351 timetable. |
| 51 | Highwoods to Wivenhoe | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 52 | Stanway to Highwoods | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 54 | Colchester to Greenstead | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 55/55A | Colchester to Greenstead | The Monday to Saturday service to operate on a hourly basis between Colchester and West Mersea. Monday to Saturday journeys to Monkwick will NO LONGER OPERATE. The Sunday service to continue to operate on a half hourly basis. |
| 56 | Colchester to Layer de la Haye | The 56 service will now serve Osborne Street, Colchester. |
| 57 | Colchester to Baronswood Way | The 57 service will now serve Osborne Street, Colchester. |
| 68/68A | Highwoods to West Mersea | Minor changes to the timetable. |
| 87 | Great Horkesley to Brightlingsea | Minor changes to the timetable - specifically schoolday only departure times. The Monday to Friday service will now operate on a half hourly basis between 10:00 and 13.00. |
| 102/104 | Colchester to Harwich | Minor changes to the timetable. NEW Monday to Friday departure at 17:10 (This journey replaces the following departures: 16:55 and 17:25). |
| 320 | Colchester to Great Notley | The 14:40 and 17:35 journeys from Colchester are WITHDRAWN - NO LONGER IN OPERATION. |
The NEW timetables are available to download/print here ↓