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Southend 320, WHJ431, a 1960 AEC Bridgemaster stands at Benfleet Station prior to being the first Southend bus on normal stage carriage service to operate on Canvey Island under co-ordination area agreement changes.
Services 3/3A were revised to operate from Shoeburyness to Canvey (Leigh Beck) becoming the longest route in the Southend Co-ordination area. The first journey was rather special in that it was on service 26, previously a sole Eastern National operation linking Canvey with Basildon, bringing a Southend Transport bus along Eastern Esplanade on the island once a week. In true Southend fashion, new or modified destination blinds were fitted to cater for the changes.
The leaflets advertising the major revision to routes are here.

Click here for more details from the Southend fleet list pages.

Photo taken by Doug Nicholson, Sunday 19 April 1964, Benfleet Station

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