• Effective
    10/11/2024 - 10/11/2024

Updated 08/11/2024 - Check X for latest updates

Remembrance Day Services and Remembrance Day Parades will take place, across Essex, on Sunday 10th November 2024.

We’re offering free travel for all veterans and UK Armed Forces personnel travelling to Remembrance Day activities on Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday. Those with a Service ID card or wearing their military uniform will be eligible for a free return journey across all First Bus services.

Our drivers may also pull over to honour the two-minute silence at 11:00hrs on Remembrance Sunday (10th November 2024) and Armistice Day (Monday 11th November 2024) where it is safe for them to do so.

The following services will be paused or placed on diversion:


ALL Colchester Services

Colchester - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 08:00 - 13:00

High Street, Head Street and North Hill will be temporarily closed.

>To view diversion routes please click here<

Chelmsford Duke Street Services

Chelmsford - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 - 12:00

>To view diversion routes please click here<


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Rayleigh - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 09:40

Websters Way will be temporarily closed.

The 09:20 and 09:51 departures from Rayleigh Railway Station (towards Southend-on-Sea) will be unable to serve bus stops: Rayleigh High Street, Bull Lane and Websters Way. The service will pause at Eastwood Road bus stop before continuing to next bus stop: Queens Road.

The 09:05 departure from Southend-on-Sea (towards Basildon) will pause service for rolling roadblock. Service to depart from Eastwood Road bus stop at 09:36.


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Brentwood - Remembrance Day

Approx. Time: 10:15 - 11:45

Brentwood High Road will be temporarily closed. 

Please use the following bus stops: Kings Road or William Hunter Way.


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Great Waltham - Remembrance Day

Approx. Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Chelmsford Road will be closed at Great Waltham temporarily. 

Services will divert via South Street and Hatchfields.


Dunmow - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 - 12:00

Dunmow High Street will be temporarily closed. 

Services will divert in both directions via the B1256.

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Heybridge - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:35 - 11:35

Broad Street Green Road (B1022) will be temporarily closed.

Services will divert in both directions via Prince of Wales Road, Maypole Road and Holloway Road.

The following bus stops will not be served: Captains Wood Road, Totham Lodge, Broad Street Green, Scylla Close, Ash Grove, Brewster House, Oak Road, Bentalls Shopping Centre and Church.

Tiptree - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 13:45 - 15:15

Church Road will be temporarily closed.

Services will divert in both directions via Maldon Road.

The following bus stops will not be served in both directions: Underwoods Garage, Duck Pond, The Centre, Station Road, Anchor Road and The New Times.


80A & 80C

Brentwood - Remembrance Day

Approx. Time: 10:15 - 11:45

Brentwood High Road and Shenfield Road will be temporarily closed. 

Services will divert after serving Brentwood rail station.

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Stanford-le-Hope - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:30 - 12:00

The Green will be temporarily closed.

Towards Lakeside: Services will divert via A1014 and Victoria Road.

Towards Basildon: Services will divert via Southend Road and A1014.

The following bus stops will not be served in both directions: Inn on the Green, Corringham Road, Hassenbrook School and Abbotts Hall Chase.

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Billericay - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 - 12:00

Billericay High Street will be temporarily closed. Services will divert in both directions via Jacksons Lane, Norsey Road, St Andrews Drive and Stock Road.

The following bus stops will not be served: Langemore Way, Hillside Road, Chapel Street, Sun Corner and The Chequers.

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Billericay - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 – 12:00

Billericay High Street will be temporarily closed.

Towards Chelmsford: Services will divert via A129, Mountnessing Road and Radford Way. The following bus stops will not be served: Sun Corner and The Chequers.

Towards Basildon: Services will divert via Radford Way, Mountnessing Road, A129, Laindon Road and A176. The following bus stops will not be served: The Chequers, Hillside Road, Chapel Street and Weir Wynd.

Chelmsford - Remembrance Day

Approx time: 09:45 – 12:00

Tindal Street and Duke Street will be temporarily closed. Services will not serve Chelmsford Bus Station.

Services will terminate/commence at Chelmsford Retail Market.

The following journeys will commence at Chelmsford Retail Market: 10:00 | 10:30 | 11:00

Stock Remembrance Day

Approx time: 10:15 – 11:45

Stock Road (B1007) will be temporarily closed.

The following journeys will divert in both directions via Radford Way, Mountnessing Road, A129, A1023 and A12.

Towards Basildon: 10:25 | 10:55

Towards Chelmsford: 10:30 | 11:00

The following bus stops will not be served: All stops from/including St John's School, Billericay to Bakers Lane, West Hanningfield.

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Maldon - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 – 11.45

Between the junction of Fambridge Road and Market Hill will be temporarily closed.

Services will divert via Fambridge Road and Cross Road.

Please use the following bus stops: Spital Road or Mundon Road.


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Brentwood - Remembrance Day

Approx. Time: 10:15 - 11:45

Brentwood High Road will be temporarily closed. 

Towards Brentwood: 09:40 service will divert and not serve Brentwood High Road.

Towards Chelmsford: 10:50 service will divert and not serve Brentwood High Road.


370 & 70

Halstead - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 14:30 – 15:00

Halstead High Street will be temporarily closed between the junctions of Kings Road and Parsonage Road.

The 13:15hrs departure from Chelmsford to Halstead will terminate at Butlers Road Car Park.

The 14:40hrs departure from Halstead to Chelmsford will commence at Butlers Road Car Park.

The following bus stops will not be served: Greenwood School, Ramsey School, Coggeshall Way, Fenn Road, Courtauld Playing Fields, Nether Court, Pretoria Road, and High Street (in both directions).

Braintree - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 14:30 - 15:30

There will be a temporary hold of traffic at Bocking End and Rayne Road to allow the parade to pass into Bank Street, and then at St Michael's Road for the parade to access the church.

Little Waltham - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:15 - 11:30

The Street in Little Waltham will be temporarily closed.

Services will divert via the B1108 Blasford Hill during this time. 


371 & 71

Witham - Remembrance Day

Approx. Time: 14:30 - 15:45

Newland Street in Witham will be temporarily closed between its junction with Collingwood Road and The Avenue. 

Affected services will divert via Maldon Road and The Grove. 

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Colchester - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 08:00 - 13:00

High Street, Head Street and North Hill will be temporarily closed.

>To view diversion routes please click here<

Wivenhoe - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 13:45 – 15:15

Wivenhoe High Street will be temporarily closed.

Services will terminate and recommence at Co-op bus stop before diverting via Belle Vue Road and Rectory Hill. Passengers can board/disembark services at Cemetery bus stop (located on Belle Vue Road) and Croquet Gardens (located on Rectory Hill).

The following bus stops will be not served in both directions: Post Office, Railway Station, Station Road and Queens Road.

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Great Waltham - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 - 12:00

Chelmsford Road, through Great Waltham, will be temporarily closed. Services will divert in both directions via B1008.

The following bus stops will not be served: Memorial, Parsonage Lane and Warners Farm.

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Great Dunmow - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 - 14:00

Services will divert in both directions via the B1256.

The following bus stops will not be served in both directions: Oak Industrial Estate, Gatehouse Villas, Station Road, High Street, Stortford Road and The Queen Victoria.


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Dunmow - Remembrance Day

Approx. time: 10:00 - 12:00

Dunmow High Street will be temporarily closed. 

Services will divert in both directions via the B1256.

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