Company Name	Eastern Counties Omnibus Company
Group	First Group
Based at	Norwich
Operating area	Norfolk, Suffolk
Livery	Cream/red gradually being replaced by First Group corporate livery
Garages	Bury St Edmunds, Felixstowe, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Kings Lynn, Lowestoft, Norwich, Thetford. Vehicles are also outstationed at a number of locations across the region.
Web Site	http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/eastanglia/eastanglia/home/index.php
Notes	The Cambridgeshire operations of Eastern Counties passed to the new Cambus company in September 1984.
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	Eastern Counties LFL557, a Bristol Lodekka FL6G with ECW bodywork. The bus is pictured at Showbus 2002 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
	Early Bristol VRTs had flat windscreens as demonstrated by this Eastern Counties example. VR381 (XAH381H) waits at Sea Palling, Norfolk in this early 1980s view. Photo: Christopher Chatfield
	East Bergholt in Constable Country - and the teminus of Eastern Counties 94 service from Ipswich. VR244, a Bristol VRT 3/ECW is seen with an older stablemate, Autumn 1987.
	Leyland National LN603 at the Stalham outstation in July 1990.
	Eastern Counties VR199 rests under a big Norfolk sky at Hunstanton Old Railway Station in August 1990. An unidentified United Counties VRT is alongside.
	Eastern Counties 265 (CJH 144V) shows the more recent style of livery used prior to the introduction of First Group corporate livery. This Bristol VRT Series III with ECW bodywork is seen at Showbus 2001.
	More Eastern Counties pictures can be found on the Showbus pages

Other resources

First East Anglia Wikipedia article including brief history of Eastern Counties

Eastern Counties Bristol VRT Fleet (Bristol VRT Enthusiasts' Society)

The British Bus Scene since the 1960s includes Eastern Counties content

Eastern Counties 1975 Fleetlist

Eastern Counties Fotopic Photographs of the Eastern Counties fleet, particularly in the NBC era

This page was updated on May 08, 2008