E.N. Services Going Over to L.T.E.
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ON September 30, the London Transport Executive will take over the local bus services operated in and around Grays and Tilbury by the Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd. This step is being taken to co-ordinate and improve services. The L.T.E. will also take over the Eastern National garage at Grays.
The Eastern National services to be transferred will continue to be run with out substantial alteration for about three months. Then the local services in Grays and Tilbury will be reorganized and some of them will be linked to London Transport routes now terminating at Grays.
"The changes will be designed to improve through traffic facilities in the district and generally to integrate the present separate bus systems," says a statement 'issued jointly by the L.T.E. and the company.
The routes concerned are from Grays to (a) Tilbury; (b) Orsett (the Orsett and Stanford-le-Hope section will be retained by Eastern National); (c) Nutberry Corner; (d) Blackshotts Lane (Fairway); (e) Coryton via Shellhaven (workers' journeys only); (f) Tilbury Ferry via Chadwell St. Mary; (g) Bulphan; (h) Linford (the Linford-Stanfordle-Hope section of the existing Eastern National route will be retained by the company); (i) Bata Shoe factory, and (j) Woodside Estate.
Other services are from Tilbury Docks to (a) Chadwell St. Mary; (170) Nutberry Corner, and (c) Bata Shoe factory.
After September 30, the Eastern National will continue to work parts of the routes from Orsett to Stanford-leHope, from Tilbury to Grays and Chelmsford, the section between Linford and Stanford-le-Hope, from Tilbury to Clacton and Harwich, Grays to Southend and Grays to South Benfleet (the Southend and South Benfleet services are run jointly by Eastern National and Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services, Ltd.), Pitsea to the Bata Shoe factory and Laindon to the Bata Shoe factory.