Essex bus routes 542/543

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Essex County Council routes 542/543 are contracted bus routes in Essex on the outskirts of London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Arriva Shires & Essex of Harlow. These routes will be replacing routes 214, 215, 219 and 220 on the 30th April 2007.

On Sundays, the Oakwood Hill section of these routes are replaced by route 240 (Debden to Waltham Cross via Loughton Oakwood Hill).

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Route Number	Route	Operated by	Garage	Vehicle	Peak vehicle requirement	Level	Frequency	Journey time	Night
542 (clockwise)/543 (anti-clockwise)	Debden Broadway to Debden Broadway via Loughton Bushfields and Oakwood Hill	Arriva Shires & Essex	Harlow	Optare Solo	2	Daily (07:00 to 19:30)	Monday to Saturday (every 60 minutes)	20 minutes	No night service

1 History
2 Vehicles
3 Route Information
4 Route details
- 4.1 Route 542
- 4.2 Route 543
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

Essex bus routes 542/543 started on the 30th April 2007 to replace the 214/215/219/220 network.The Loughton/Debden circulars (214/215/219/220) started in the 1980s after some London Buses routes stopped serving some of the Loughton and Debden housing estates. The old 167 served Oakwood Hill which the 214/215 routes replaced. The route was originally operated by Wests Coaches of South Woodford. The contract then passed to Clintona Coaches of Brentwood. After that, it shortly contracted to Imperial Buses of Rainham. Today, the routes are contracted with Arriva Shires & Essex operating from Harlow garage. Arriva originally used Mercedes-Benz minibuses but settled to use Optare Solos.