Network Colchester
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Network Colchester is a Tellings-Golden Miller bus operating company. It is a trading name of Burton's Coaches of Haverhill, Suffolk used for their Colchester operations. TGM have upgraded 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 has its roots in 1904 with the establishment of Colchester Corporation Tramways, operating, at its peak, 4 routes and 18 trams. Bus operation started up in 1928 as Colchester Corporation Transport to replace the trams, the first route to be axed being High Street - East Gates followed by Lexden - North Station, North Station - Hythe and North Station - Recreation Ground. With bus deregulation in 1986 the company was renamed Colchester Borough Transport and became an arms length division of the council. In 1993, during a bus war with Eastern National (later First Essex), the company was sold to British Bus for the sum of £1, but the new owners took on considerable debts. After discussions the bus war ended in 1994 with a share out of routes between the two companies. In 1996 British Bus was taken over by the Cowie Group, which in 1997 became Arriva, the company being rebranded as Arriva Colchester, the Tuscan red & cream livery being replaced by Arriva corporate colours. Profits did not improve and the company was sold to Tellings Golden Miller (TGM) in 2004 and rebranded as Network Colchester.
Ironically, in 2008, Arriva bought Tellings, the Network Colchester name will continue however.
[edit] Registered routes
(As of 17th April 2008)
- 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)
- 6 - Colchester Town Service: Old Heath - Town Centre (Mondays to Saturdays) Starts 6/5/08
- 8/8A - Colchester Town Service: Monkwick - High Woods (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 9 - Colchester Town Service: Head Street - Gilberd School (Schooldays)
- 50: Colchester - Layer - Tollesbury (Saturdays)
- 78 - Colchester - Brightlingsea (Monday - Saturdays early morning/early evening)
- 83 - Colchester - Chappel (Mondays to Saturdays) extended to Colne Engaine (Mondays) Mount Bures (Tuesdays & Fridays)
- 88: Colchester - Halstead (Sundays)
- 90: Ipswich - Hadleigh (Mon - Sat Eves)
- 92: Colchester - Tollesbury (Saturdays)
- 93/A: Colchester - East Bergholt - Ipswich (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 95: Capel St Mary - Copdock - Ipswich (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 105: Colchester - Walton on Naze (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 107: Colchester - Walton on Naze via Kirby Le Soken(Mondays - Saturdays)
- 109: Colchester - Walton on Naze via Elmstead Market(Mondays - Saturdays)
- 175: Fingringhoe - Colchester (Mondays - Saturdays)
- 275: Rowhedge - Colchester Thomas Lord Audley School (Schooldays)
- 601/2/3: West Mersea - Colchester Thomas Lord Audley School (Schooldays)
- 730: Mistley - Manningtree - East Bergholt - Hadleigh - Bildeston (Mondays - Saturday)
- 731: Mistley - Manningtree - East Bergholt - Hadleigh - Elmset - Bildeston (Mondays - Saturday)
- BM0728: Wix - Beaumont - Thorpe-le-Soken - Frinton-On-Sea, Tendring High School
- JM1011: Tollesbury - Tiptree Thurstable School
- JM0060: Point Clear - Clacton Bishops Park College
- JM1011: Rowhedge - Colchester Charles Lucas School
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