page_title: Excel (bus network)
section_title: Other Excel-branded services
hierarchical_section_title: Excel (bus network) / Other Excel-branded services
caption_attribution_description: English: A Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B9TL used on Excel feeder services between Norwich and Lowestoft, seen in Great Yarmouth.
context_page_description: Excel is the brand name given to a number of bus services operated by First Norfolk & Suffolk, covering 107 miles between Lowestoft bus station in Suffolk and Peterborough railway station in Cambridgeshire. Prior to February 2018, the main section of route was provided as a single service, but has now been split for operational reasons into the excel route itself between Peterborough, King's Lynn and Norwich, and the X1 between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
  A number of Excel-branded feeder routes are provided at the eastern end of the X1, including the X2, X21 and X22 via Beccles and the X11 to Belton.
  In the year up to April 2009, the route saw a 15% increase in passenger numbers compared to the previous year. In 2013, the service received brand new buses in the form of high-specification Alexander Dennis Enviro400 double-deckers.
context_section_description: First Norfolk & Suffolk currently provide a number of Excel-branded feeder routes at the eastern end of the main X1 service, operated using the Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B9TLs formerly used on the core route.
  The X2 operates between Norwich bus station and Lowestoft bus station, as with the X1; however, it stops more frequently and is routed via Gillingham, Beccles, Worlingham and Carlton Colville rather than via Acle and Great Yarmouth as with the X1. The X2 operates every 30 minutes from Monday to Saturday daytimes. Minor variations of the route of the X2, known as the X21 and X22, operate somewhat more infrequently to serve surrounding villages along the route of the X2, including North Cove and Whitton; the X21 three journeys in the morning peak and five in the evening peak, while the X22 runs every hour from Monday to Saturday daytimes.
  The X11 operates as a variation of the X1, shadowing the route of the X1 between Norwich and Gorleston-on-Sea via Great Yarmouth, before diverging at James Paget University Hospital to serve and terminate in Belton rather than continuing onwards to Lowestoft. The X11 operates every 30 minutes from Monday to Saturday daytimes.
caption: A Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B9TL, formerly used on the core X1, since replaced by new Enviro400s and now used mainly on the eastern feeder routes, seen at Great Yarmouth.
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