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The bus station provides the main interchange point between the western excel route between Peterborough, Wisbech, King's Lynn, Swaffham, Dereham and Norwich, and the eastern X1 route between Norwich, Acle, Great Yarmouth, Gorleston-on-Sea and Lowestoft; originally these 2 routes operated as 1 service (X1), but was split in into the 2 routes ...
A new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace the Worcester Royal Infirmary in 1999, with the new site located on the eastern side of the city. [1] The new hospital was designed by Anshen Dyer, [4] built by Bovis Lend Lease [5] at a cost of £85 million [6] and opened in March 2002. [7]
Its first route ran from Sheringham to Holt. [5] On 1 March 1992, Sanders bought Bammant's Coaches in Fakenham as its owner was ready to retire. [6] The addition of Bammants' 15 vehicles made it the largest coach operator in Norfolk with 62 vehicles. [7] In 2019, Sanders closed its Fakenham depot, merging its operations with its depot in Holt. [8]
'First bus East of England is a bus operator providing services in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern England. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup and has five depots in operating areas spread out across East Anglia. These areas are Norwich, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and King's Lynn. [1]
Norwich Airport (IATA: NWI, ICAO: EGSH) is an international airport in Norfolk, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 kilometres) north of the city of Norwich. [3] In 2023, Norwich Airport was the 25th busiest airport in the UK and busiest in East Anglia .
Most local bus operations in Norwich depart from either Castle Meadow, near Norwich Castle, St. Stephen's Street or from Theatre Street, near Norwich's Theatre Royal, with the bus station reserved for long-distance express services, coach services or Park and Ride services, with a few local services operating out of the terminus.
There are no bus or shuttle services to and from Norfolk International Airport. The nearest bus (HRT Route 15) connection is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away at the intersection of Military Highway (Route 165) and Norview Avenue (Route 247). [33] All ground transportation services are located in the arrivals terminal.
The driver took avoiding action after a car drove into its path, causing the bus to veer off the road. [7] On 23 February 2017, an X1 bus crashed into a roadside ditch and overturned near Wisbech as a result of high winds, gusting up to 80mph in the area around the time of the crash, caused by Storm Doris. Eleven people were injured. [8]