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GS: The Guy Special

Prepared by Ian Smith

This page created 23rd October 2003

393 EP Harlow - Great Parndon - Tylers Cross - Clay Hill - Broxbourne - Hoddesdon

393 route map The 393 was one of the first routes to serve the fledgling Harlow New Town. The route started in 1949 using Leyland Cubs from Epping to provide a roughly hourly service cross-country between Harlow and Hoddesdon.

Epping replaced its Leyland Cubs with new GS buses in December 1953, on both its 381 and 393 routes.

The 393 underwent considerable change at its Harlow end as the New Town developed during the nineteen fifties, swallowing the villages and road network that had been there when the route started.

One-man operated RFs took over in October 1957.

Allocation

The 393 shared Epping's GS allocation with the 381. The buses included: 

GS16:       -  6/57
GS26:       -  3/57
GS32:  1/57 -  2/57
GS38: 12/53 - 10/56
GS40:  3/57 - 12/58
GS41:  */55 -c12/56, 2/57 - 12/58
GS43:       -  1/57, 3/57 -  7/58
GS44:       -  3/57, 6/57 - 11/57
GS71:  */54 on loan from GR

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