1995 - 1999

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1995     1996     1997     1998     1999

1995

Southend Transports X1 group of services become part of the Green Line Network on
1st April 1995.

1996

In August 1996, the massive re-signalling project on the LTS railway was completed and
control passed from the local signal cabins to a centrally based signal & control centre at
Upminster.

In October, Harris Bus re-launched themselves with a striking new Green & Blue livery and
the brand name ‘Thurrock Link’. Brand new low floor buses were introduced and the local
network was revised. Here is a clickable image showing the newspaper wrap around advert:

On 13th April, Capital Citybus operates a special ‘Red and Orange running day’ across it’s
network of routes within the Thurrock area. The basic rule was that the entire days
service was made up of former Red London Transport vehicles, current vehicles in
Capital’s Red livery (for it’s London contract work), and vehicles wearing the special
Orange livery for the East London line rail replacement service. A small gallery of images
from the day can be found on the Capital Citybus page on this website (click here for the link).

Capital Citybus sees it’s last day on routes 324 and 348 on 6th February. Route 324
passes to Ensign Bus (seeing them re-enter regular service in Thurrock) and route 348
passes to fellow First company Eastern National. A special service using older vehicles
was operated to mark the occasion - a small gallery of images from the day can be found
on the Capital Citybus page on this website (click here for the link).

On 10th October 1999, Thamesway and Arriva Southend combined their London express
coach operations into a single service, operated as a Green Line branded route. The
X and S number systems were dropped, with the main service becoming 721. There was
also various peak hour variants using numbers 720, 722 and 723 (hmmm......Green line
coaches using route numbers 721, 722 and 723 in Thurrock? Now who would have
thought we’d see that again?!!).

In December 1999, Town & Country take over routes 324, 325, 348 and 509 from Ensign.

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