4 4A

• Southend - Southchurch (limited-stop) - Barling - Wakering - Shoeburyness
• Southend - Southchurch (limited-stop) - Barling - Wakering - Asda - Shoeburyness

Better Queensway work starts 31/10/2025 until at least January 2027. Expect delays in the Southend area during this time. Some services may be curtailed short of their usual terminals to maintain service reliability.

Effected Routes: 3, 25A, 7, 8, 1, 28, 4, 826, 9, 827, 21S, X30, 820

Better Queensway work starts 31/10/2025 until at least January 2027. As part of this, the Queensway Underpass will be PERMANENTLY CLOSED after 08/12/2025, with the northern slip roads closed (except for access from Short Street) until at least January 2027. Work on the Porters Grange Roundabout (above Queensway) will also start around this time. Expect delays on all of these routes.

Effected Routes: 826, 4, 820

Due to Better Queensway works, buses that usually use Sutton Road or Southchurch Road will be on diversion after December 8. Buses on routes 2 and 4/4F will use stop F (Southend Travel Centre) for buses leaving Southend. Stops VR/VS (Whitegate Road) and VQ (Southchurch Road) will NOT be served during this time, and passengers will need to travel down to Southend Travel Centre to board buses on these routes. **Route 4A will terminate at Thorpe Bay station during this time.**

Effected Routes: 4

Services 4 and 4F will be changing. Alternating off-peak service 4 journeys will run via Asda instead of Blackgate Road - Journeys via Asda will run as service 4A. Service 4F will run via Asda instead of Barling.

Effected Routes: 4, 4F, 4A