Another new bus route for Southend Airport

Thursday 5th November 2026 Arriva has introduced a new bus route linking Southend’s town centre with the city’s Airport. Routes 62A/B began last week, on Sunday 25th October, running half hourly between 05:45 and 20:37 on Mondays to Fridays with an 06:45-19:37 span on Saturdays and 08:45-18:37 on Sundays. As well as the Airport the route restores a service in the North Avenue and Hamstel Road area of of the city lost when a route was withdrawn more than three years ago. Funded by Southend City’s Local Authority Bus Grant, it’s the second route to be introduced to the Airport in the last year as readers may recall I reviewed Stephensons new 23A/B route linking Leigh-on-Sea with the Airport last September, a route also being funded by the city council. Like that route, the new 62A has a peak time variant (numbered 62B) and this one does a loop around Temple Farm Industrial Estate as shown on the map below. Two eight year old ADL Enviro200 buses have have been branded in the new yellow…

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