Service 9 | Hillway, Billericay | ROAD CLOSED

17th Sep 2025Mid Essex

Location

Hillway, Billericay
Cause

Utility Repair and Maintenance Works
Responsibility

Essex and Suffolk Water
Effective

17/09/2025 - 26/09/2025

Hillway, Billericay is closed for emergency roadworks until 26/09/2025.

Due to the location of the road closure, the 9 service will divert in both directions via Greens Farm Lane.

The following stops will not be served:

Gosfield Road
Felsted Road
Hillway
Elm Green
Greenway
Sunnymede Junior School
Mons Avenue
The Meadow Way

We apologise for the disruption to your bus journey.

Service Disruptions - 17/09/2025

Notifications listed oldest to newest (scroll down for latest updates) >>>

+10min delays due to heavy traffic.

+20min delays due to closure of High Street, Brentwood > Services 9 / 37 / 80A/C / 351 | High Street, Brentwood | ROAD CLOSED | First Bus

31 / 331 / 332 / 333

Burnham Road, Latchingdon has been closed for emergency roadworks. Works are scheduled to be completed by end of day 19/09/2025.

Service 31 (All variants) are diverting in both directions via Steeple Road, Grange Avenue and Green Lane. The following bus stops will not be served in both directions: The Village Hall and Greenacres.

X20

14:40 from Stanstead will now be starting at Braintree Bus Station due to operational issues.

300

Route 300 will need to divert at Sun Corner to Billericay Railway via London Road, Mountnessing Road and Radford Way then divert to Potash via Radford Way, Perry Street and Queens Park Avenue and same in reverse.

There will be no service on Billericay High Street and between St Johns stop on Stock Road and Perry Street on Stock Road.

FOR PRE-PLANNED DIVERSIONS - CLICK HERE >>

Last updated at 17:15.

>>> Service Changes from Sunday 31st August 2025

21/08/2025 - An update has been added regarding the operation of the 37 service - Monday to Saturday - from 1st September 2025.

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. Service 351 will continue to serve the section of route between Brentwood High Street and Warley. UPDATE 21/08/2025 - Central Connect will operate the Monday to Saturday service (to be renumbered as SERVICE 60) from 1st September 2025. The new timetable can be found on Central Connect's website here: Essex - Back to Brentwood - Central Connect
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	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 ↓