Stagecoach East 19589 (AE10 BXA) in Burwell - 30 May 2025 (P1210196)

Friday 30 May 2025 (1005) – The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) is embarking on a franchising model for the region’s bus services. Bus services are branded ‘Tiger’ and have a ‘T’ prefixed service number.

Two of the services introduced on Tuesday 27 May 2025 in East Cambridgeshire were the T4 (Newmarket-Burwell-Reach-Swaffham Prior-Lode-Bottisham-Fulbourn-Addenbrooke’s Hospital contracted to Stagecoach East) and T5 (Cambridge-Burwell-Fordham-Soham contracted to A2B Travel Group). Both operate hourly Mondays to Saturdays and the latter revives a direct service east of Burwell lost many years ago.

The two new services are said to replace the now withdrawn service 11 that was contracted to Stephensons of Essex, a service introduced on 31 October 2022 after Stagecoach East withdrew its commercial services in the area. Service 11 operated from Newmarket to Central Cambridge via Burwell (including a circular serving Toyse Lane and North Street which are quite some distance from the village centre), then via either Reach or Lode, and Bottisham. The T4 does serve Toyse Lane and North Street but no longer with a direct link to Central Cambridge.

Stagecoach East 19589 (AE10 BXA) seen on The Causeway in Burwell having completed the loop via Ness Road, Toyse Lane and North Street. The bus is an Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro400 bodied Trident new in April 2010 that was working the 0940 service T4 from Newmarket to Addenbrooke’s Hospital.