Lowestoft Corporation

Lowestoft

Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is north-east of London, north-east of Ipswich and south-east of Norwich...

 was one of the many places that had a municipal bus service

Municipal bus companies

A municipal bus company is an operator of bus services owned by the local government authority. This article lists all current municipal bus companies in the United Kingdom....

. Lowestoft Corporation operated the bus and, up to 1931, tram services

Lowestoft Corporation Tramways

Lowestoft Corporation Tramways was the operator of the electric tramway system that served Lowestoft from 22 July 1903 until 8 May 1931.-History:...

. Buses were introduced in 1927. The corporation became Waveney District Council

Waveney

Waveney is a local government district in Suffolk, England, named after the River Waveney that forms its north-west border. The district council is based in Lowestoft, the major settlement in Waveney, which is the only unparished area in the district...

 in 1974 and the bus service was sold by the council to Eastern Counties in 1977. The bus garage is on Rotterdam Road is still standing.

Eastern Counties

After bus deregulation

Bus deregulation

Bus deregulation in Great Britain came into force on 26 October 1986, as part of the Transport Act 1985.The 'Buses' White Paper was the basis of the Transport Act 1985, which provided for the deregulation of local bus services in the whole of the United Kingdom except for Northern Ireland and...

 in 1986, most town services including the north-south routes taken over in 1977 were operated with minibuses. The 680 series of which these routes were numbered in, adopted in the 1970s, was replaced with a new series with L-prefix routes.

• L1/L2 - Gunton Estate
  Gunton, Suffolk
  Gunton is a suburb of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. Gunton was a small coastal village but over the years has been suburbanised. Gunton has an estimated population of 6,640. The main A12 or Yarmouth road runs through the area.-Attractions:...
  
  
• L3 - Parkhill
• L4 - Oulton Village
  Oulton Broad
  Oulton Broad refers to both the lake and the suburb of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England located 2 miles west of the centre of the town.-Oulton Broad:...
  
  
• L5/L6 - Oulton Rock Estate
• L7 - Gunton St Peters Estate
• L8 - Burnt Hill Estate
• L9 - Hollow Grove (via Whitton)
• L11/L12 - Carlton Colville
  Carlton Colville
  Carlton Colville is an area in the suburbs of Lowestoft in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk, located south-west of the centre of the town. Significant residential development has occurred in the area since the 1960s, including more than 1,000 homes built in Carlton Park...
  
  
• L13 - Kessingland
  Kessingland
  Kessingland is a large village in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk. It is located around south of Lowestoft. It is of interest to archaeologists as Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements have been found here; the remains of an ancient forest lie buried on the seabed.There has...
  
  

Cutbacks from Eastern Counties successor, First Eastern Counties, have seen many routes withdrawn including:

• L1/L2/L9 were consolidated into 101 town service
• L4/L5/L6/L11/L12 were consolidated into 102 town service (later split into the 102 and 103 services)
• L8 Nightingales of Beccles turned into the 108
• L7 Nightingales of Beccles turned into the 107/106
• l13 Anglian Bus
  Anglian Bus
  Anglian Bus is a large independent bus operator based in Beccles in Suffolk, England. The company operates services over a wide area in both Norfolk and Suffolk, running a fleet of around 63 buses and coaches...
  
   turned into 601/ 608
• l13 turned into 99/99A to Southwold
  Southwold
  Southwold is a town on the North Sea coast, in the Waveney district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the North Sea coast at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is around south of Lowestoft and north-east...
  
  via Kessingland