Network Colchester
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Network Colchester is a Tellings-Golden Miller company. It is controlled by Burton's Coaches of Haverhill, Suffolk. They operate in Kent and Surrey, but control both Burton's and Network Colchester. TGM have upgraded from the fleet, and it is no longer the second from bottom bus company, profit wise. Its main operations are Colchester town services in competition with First Essex, Essex County Council and Suffolk County Council contract services.
The company was started up in 1927 as Colchester Corporation Transport to replace the trams. Then British Bus purchased it from Colchester Council and the company traded as Colchester Borough Transport. Later, the company was acquired by Arriva and was renamed Arriva Colchester, before being sold to TGM in 2004.
[edit] Routes
(As of 25 November 2006)
- 1 - Colchester Town Service: Greenstead Elm Cresent or Hamlet Drive - Ambrose Ave (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 2 - Colchester Town Service: Horkesley Heath - Severalls Business Park (Monday - Saturdays)
- 2B - Colchester Town Service: Boxted - Severalls Business Park (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 5 - Colchester Town Service: Lexden - General Hospital (Mondays to Fridays)
- 8/8A - Colchester Town Service: Monkwick - High Woods (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 9 - Colchester Town Service: Head Street - Gilberd School (Schooldays)
- 50: Colchester - Layer - Tollesbury (Saturdays)
- 83 - Colchester - Chappel (Mondays to Saturdays) extended to Colne Engaine (Mondays) Mount Bures (Tuesdays & Fridays)
- 88: Colchester - Halstead (Sundays)
- 90: Ipswich - Hadleigh - Sudbury - Lavenham - Bildeston - Hadleigh - Ipswich (Mon - Sat Eves)
- 90C: Ipswich - Sudbury - Haverhill (Sundays)
- 92: Colchester - Tollesbury (Satudays)
- 93/A/B/C/E: Colchester - Ipswich (Daily)
- 94: Hadleigh - Ipswich (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 96/A: Mistley - Ipswich (Sundays)
- 105/7/9: Colchester - Walton on Naze (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 175: Fingringhoe - Colchester (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 275: Rowhedge - Thomas Lord Audley School (Schooldays)
- 730/1: Mistley - Hadleigh - Bildeston (Mondays - Satutdays)
- 900: Colchester - Sudbury (Sundays)
