Ensign Bus will be introducing a new open top bus service 99 from Saturday 4th May 2024, running between Southend Pier and Shoeburyness East Beach. The service will run at weekends and every day during the school holidays until September.

This will run alongside the existing Ensign route 68 between Southend seafront and Leigh on Sea, which has run for several seasons.

From Tuesday 7th May 2024 we will be introducing brand new services to our Worcester Network in partnership with Worcestershire County Council.

Service 27 (Worcester – Battenhall) - New Hourly service running Monday to Saturday connecting City Centre with London Road, Camp Hill Road and Battenhall Avenue.

Due to the May Day Parade on 04 May, there will be various road closures at certain times, please read carefully as these may affect you:

Services 1&2 heading to RGU 10:30 – 12:30 approx 
At King Street/West North Street lights, left into East North Street then:
• onto Virginia Street
• Guild Street
• South College Street
• Wellington Place
• Holburn Street and resume normal route.

TUESDAY 07 MAY – SERVICE 675

Due to the closure of West Malvern Road between the junctions of Old Hollow and Old Road on Tuesday 07 May for 4 days between 0930 and 1530, service 675 will need to go direct via Wyche Cutting.

Services before and after these times will be unaffected and can operate normal route, including services to and from John Masefield High School.

From Sunday 12 May 2024, we will be introducing new timetables for our Summer uplift. 

The timetable changes have been designed to improve punctuality on the network, helping passengers' journeys and keeping Dorset moving. The changes have been created in consultation with Dorset Council, using feedback from local passenger user groups, as well as First Wessex drivers.