Go East Anglia is a bus operator in

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and

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, owned by the

Go-Ahead Group Go-Ahead Group Limited is a Multinational corporation, multi-national transport group based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. While the majority of its operations are within Great Britain, it also operates services in Ireland, Australia, Singapo ...

. The group consists of

Konectbus Konectbus is a bus operator based in Dereham in Norfolk, England. It is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group and forms part of Go East Anglia. History Konectbus was formed in 1999 when the Saham Toney depot of Norfolk Green was purchased from ...

and

Hedingham & Chambers Hedingham & Chambers was a bus operator, part of the larger Go East Anglia unit within the Go-Ahead Group, consisting of the #Hedingham, Hedingham and #Chambers, Chambers brands. The group was formed when Go-Ahead purchased the two firms in Jun ...

History

Go East Anglia was initially formed in 2010, when the Go-Ahead Group purchased Konectbus. In 2012, Go-Ahead also purchased Anglian Bus, Hedingham and Chambers. Anglian Bus was quickly merged into the Konectbus brand, rendering the name obsolete quickly.

Subsidiaries

Go East Anglia originally did not operate any buses in its own right, with all being legally operated by Konectbus Limited, H.C.Chambers & Son Limited or Hedingham & District Omnibuses Limited. However, the different companies remain distinct brands. In 2018, all the companies' vehicles were brought together under the Konectbus licence. In March 2025, Go East Anglia announced it would begin to consolidate its bus operations in the

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under the Konectbus brand from June 2025. The original Konectbus operation is to be renamed Konectbus Norfolk, while the operations of Hedingham & Chambers are to be rebranded to Konectbus Essex and Suffolk. *

– Norfolk ** ''Park and Ride Norwich'' – A Konectbus brand operating the

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contract in Norwich. *

– Essex & Suffolk ** Hedingham – Essex ** Chambers – Suffolk

Fleet

As at November 2019, Go East Anglia operated 190 buses and coaches from nine depots.

References

{{Go-Ahead Bus Companies, state=collapsed Bus operators in Essex Bus operators in Suffolk Bus operators in Norfolk Go-Ahead Group companies