VOSA

A few days ago there was an interesting entry on VOSA:

4 December 2013

 

PH0004983/470 - FIRST DEVON & CORNWALL LTD, THE RIDE, CHELSON MEADOW, PLYMOUTH, PL9 7JT Registration Accepted

• Starting Point: Plymouth Rail Station
• Finish Point: Plymouth Rail Station
• Via: City centre, West Hoe
• Service Number: 777
• Service Type: Normal Stopping
• Effective Date: 29-JAN-2014
• Other Details: 29 to 31 January 2014 only.

There has been some speculation that this is a new competitive route against Plymouth Citybus service 25 but I am pretty sure its a lot less exciting than that! The Other Details line points out that the service is only running for three days so is almost certainly linked to some sort of event rather than a general new route, unless of course VOSA is wrong on the date range. Having said that I cannot see anything obvious happening over that date period?

Yesterday saw another VOSA entry which is probably more significant:

5 December 2013

PH0004983/32 - FIRST DEVON & CORNWALL LTD, THE RIDE, CHELSON MEADOW, PLYMOUTH, PL9 7JT Variation Accepted by SN:

Operating between Tavistock Bus Station and Plymouth Royal Parade given service number 83/83A/84/86/86A effective from 05-Jan-2014. To amend Timetable

As always it remains to be seen exactly what these changes will be – I am sure it wont be long before details get posted by First as they are usually pretty quick with these now.

In and Out

With so many new double decker's entering service in Plymouth over the last year or so, its easy to forget just how rare new double deckers have been down here for many years. One batch delivered back in 1992 have always been popular K801-4ORL the very smart and comfortable Volvo Olympians new to Western National for use on the X80. It was a fitting tribute to these fine buses that K803ORL was in use on the last day of that service. Sadly all good things come to an end and today we hear confirmation that the first of the batch 34001 K801ORL went to scrap a couple of weeks ago.
February 2011
But, like I said there are plenty of new double decker's in Plymouth these days. The next batch of Enviros for Plymouth Citybus have started to arrive with 509 WF63LYT 510 WF63LYU delivered yesterday and 511 WF63LYV and 512 WF63LYW due today, the others following 2 each day.

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Plymothian Transit Fleetlists:  Plymouth Citybus

Plym Valley Timetable

an important message from our friends at the PCTPG regarding the Plym Valley Park & Ride:

I have been requested by the PVR to amend our timetable, previously published, to enable us to pick up passengers from the City Centre in order to arrive in time for the PVR’s midday departure.  Please will you publish this amended version with our, PCTPG, apologies but for PVR’s operational reasons this late change has been published.

Fives Verses First

This weekend just gone saw the start of the new cross city 5 5A for Plymouth Citybus. This ‘new’ service replaces the old 5 5A in Plymstock and the 43A to Saltash. [Service 5 5A Page]

The service was due to be run using Mercedes Citaros (I assume it is – I have not seen any yet). Certainly the Citaros we used to have on the 50 have now gone, replaced by Enviro 200’s yesterday which is nice!

By pure coincidence, First Devon & Cornwall have announced yet another new fares reduction which just happens to cover a main section of the 5s route:

From Monday 2 December were reducing the prices of single fares between Wolseley Road Flats and Plymouth City Centre to just £1 for adults and 50p for kids and NUS card holders! This means its just £1 (or 50p) for any single trip on:

• Service 1/1A and 76 between Wolseley Road Flats and the City Centre
• Service 4 between Queens House and the City Centre
• Service 83 between Alma Road (Central Park) and the City Centre

Between them services 1/1A and the 76 offer up to 7 journeys an hour between Wolseley Road Flats and the City Centre. And from Alma Road (Central Park) between them services 1/1A, 4, 76 and 83 offer up to 13 buses an hour to/from the City Centre.
And dont forget our weekly ticket is just £11 " thats unlimited travel for 7 days on all of the above services plus the rest of our routes across Plymouth, Saltash, Torpoint and Ivybridge, including our Park & Ride PR1 And PR2. Hop on and off as much as you like while the ticket is valid. In fact if you use it every day it works out at just £1.57 a day!

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