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Christmas & New Year buses 2025/26
As we approach the festive season, below we’ve put all the information you’ll need about your local bus services during Christmas period so you can plan your travel with us wherever and whenever you need it.
This year, there will be some slight variations to our services between the Christmas and New Year periods depending on whereabouts on our networks you’re travelling… you’ll find full details below.
You can find timetables for all of our bus services (with maps and fares information) on our timetables page.
We’d like to wish all of our passengers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Mid and North Essex
| up to Tuesday 23rd December 2025 | Normal service | |
| Wednesday 24th December 2025 | Saturday service except: | Normal Wednesday service on ECC supported services C6, 14, 50, 50A, 92, 407, and 417. Wednesday service on services 19 and 19A. Amended Saturday service on services 3, 13, 13A, and 13B. Earlier last bus times for all local bus services. |
| Thursday 25th December 2025 CHRISTMAS DAY | No service | |
| Friday 26th December 2025 BOXING DAY | No service except: | X10, X20, X30 running to a Sunday timetable apart from the the following first journeys on the X30: The first bus towards Stansted Airport will be 05:05 from Southend. Towards Southend, buses will depart at 03:55, 04:50, and 05:50 from Chelmsford, 06:36 from Broomfield Hospital, and 07:05 from Stansted Airport. Buses will then run to a normal Sunday timetable. Special timetable on C1. Special timetable on 51, and 54. |
| Saturday 27th December 2025 | Normal service | |
| Sunday 28th December 2025 | Normal service | |
| Monday 29th December 2025 | Saturday service except: |
Normal Monday service on ECC supported services C6, 4, 14, 50, 50A, 50B, 407 and 417. Monday service on services 19 and 19A. Amended Saturday service on services 3, 13, 13A, and 13B. |
| Tuesday 30th December 2025 | Saturday service except: | Normal Tuesday service on ECC supported services C6, 4, 14, 50, 50A, 69, 69A, 407 and 417. Tuesday service on services 19 and 19A. Amended Saturday service on services 3, 13, 13A, and 13B. |
| Wednesday 31st December 2025 NEW YEARS EVE | Saturday Service except: |
Normal Wednesday service on ECC supported services C6, 4, 14, 15, 50, 50A, 407 and 417. Normal weekday service on 1A, 2A, 19, 19A, 31, 68, 88, 102, 336, 370, 371, C2, C3, C4, C5, C7, C8, C10, C11, 53, 53A, 54, 56, and 57. Amended Saturday service on services 3, 13, 13A, and 13B. |
| Thursday 1st January 2026 NEW YEARS DAY | No service except: | X10, X20, X30 will run to a Sunday timetable. Special timetable on C1. Special timetable on 51, and 54. |
| Friday 2nd January 2026 | Saturday service except: | Normal Friday service on ECC supported services C6, 4, 14, 50, 50A, 79, 407 and 417. Friday service on services 19 and 19A. Amended Saturday service on services 3, 13, 13A, and 13B. |
| Saturday 3rd January 2026 | Normal services resume |
