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After a quiet period there are lots of changes this month with many timetables changing in Cornwall and Devon before Easter with quite a a few cutbacks to services in Plymouth later in the month. The days of the Plymouth Citybus Dennis Dart, Mercedes Citaro and the Volvo B7TL have seemingly come to an end this month too so the fleet is a little bit less interesting. The coming months are going to be interesting too as we see the difference Government ,money is making to Cornwall and Devon (although a lot less than they asked for) and more importantly, how the lack of funding is going to hit Plymouth.
After a couple of years of almost full lockdown I am hoping to get out and about a bit more this coming year too so hopefully we will start to see more regular posting again. As always feel free to comment or send anything you feel would be interesting to readers.

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15 May 2022

Devon & Cornwall Transit 2022 Week 19

The weekly look back on what has been published on the Registered Local Bus Services site over the last week. As always click through for more details including timetables and maps.

There are two distinct batches this last week starting with Plymouth Citybus with some backdated minor amendments to a few services.

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH0000135.171	10	Bodmin Parkway	Padstow	04-May-2022	On college days 1530 from Padstow serves Callywith College (Timetable changed 10 April 2022)	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.166	11 11B	Plymouth City Centre, Royal Parade	Bodmin Parkway	04-May-2022	0730 (Schooldays) from Plymouth to serve Bodmin Parkway station, primarily for students attending Callywith College	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.005	28 28A	Plymouth City Centre, Royal Parade	Crownhill	03-May-2022	Revise departure time from Mainstone to leave 5 minutes earlier to fund time for inbound diversion due to unfinished roadworks, & revise routing at Mainstone & Estover (Asda)	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.241	45 45A	Camborne	Pengegon	04-May-2022	Route correction: serves Cliff View Road & Boiler Works Road, not North Roskear Road	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.159	75 75A	Plymouth, Royal Parade	Torpoint	04-May-2022	1535 from Torpoint School back extended to Torpoint Ferry Shop 1630 from Torpoint to serve Crafthole & Portwrinkle 1407 from Plymouth varied on schooldays to avoid double deck going under railway bridge at St Germans	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.160	79 79A	Callington, New Road	Tavistock Bus Station	04-May-2022	Extend 1505 from TavistockCommunity College to Callington (schooldays only)	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD

The second batch are a load of cancellations by National Express. These are just the local service registrations – Their express services dont need to be registered and continue as before. I have added the current timetables to my route pages as they stand currently

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PD0000738.211	315	EASTBOURNE	HELSTON	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.215	328	PLYMOUTH	ROCHDALE	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.166	330	Nottingham	Penzance	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.233	338 338	Coventry	Exeter/Torbay	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.168	339	Cleethorpes	Westward Ho	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.224	404	PENZANCE	LONDON VICTORIA	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.300	406	Newquay	London Victoria	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.216	501	PLYMOUTH	LONDON VICTORIA	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.223	502	BUDE	LONDON VICTORIA	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.347	503	Penzance Bus Station	London Victoria Coach Station	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.221	504	PENZANCE	LONDON VICTORIA	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.313	530	Newcastle Upon Tyne Coach Station	Paignton Bus Station	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD
PD0000738.177	531	Newcastle	Plymouth	01-Apr-2022	Cancellation Accepted	NATIONAL EXPRESS LTD

There is also one new timetable being introduced this week (from today)

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH0005305.058	118	Okehampton, Railway Station	Tavistock Bus Station	15-May-2022	Timetable variation	DEALTOP LIMITED

Elsewhere…

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10 May 2022

The last days of the Citybus Darts Part Two

The second batch of photos from Mark Bailey of the last few days of Plymouth Citybus Dennis Dart operation, this time the 54 Reg batch

76 Eggbuckland 19th April

77 Keyham 19 April 2022

78 Weston Mill 21 April 2022

Thanks once again to Mark for the photos.

08 May 2022

Devon & Cornwall Transit 2022: Week 18

The weekly look back on what has been published on the Registered Local Bus Services site over the last week. As always click through for more details including timetables and maps.

The main feature this week are a batch of changes for First Kernow’s Day Tripper services based on The Eden Project. The new slimmed down network will operate as routes D1-D5 from 30 May 2022.

Apart from that we have a new timetable for Dartlines 118. The only other notice being a cancellation for an annual even service from Stagecoach

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH1020951.325	21A (21A)	Barnstaple Bus Station	Croyde Bay	12-Jun-2022	To Cancel special event registration (Braunton D Day Events since 2019)	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0005305.058	118	Okehampton, Railway Station	Tavistock Bus Station	15-May-2022	Timetable variation	DEALTOP LIMITED
PH0004983.600	D2	Eden Project Bus Station	Perranporth, Perran Sands	30-May-2022	Variation to route, timetable and stopping places Route will be renumbered D2 (was D3)	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.604	D3	Eden Project Bus Station	Fowey Safe Harbour Inn	30-May-2022	Minor changes to the timetable. Route is renumbered D3.(was D8)	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.601	D4	Eden Project Bus Station	Truro, outside Truro College	30-May-2022	Cancellation Accepted	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.605	D4 D5	Eden Project Bus Station	Looe Tregoad Park/ Polperro Crumplehorn /Lanhydrock	30-May-2022	Routes are renumbered D4 and D5. (was D9,D10) Revised timetable.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.602	D5	Eden Project Bus Station	Lost Gardens of Heligan/ Mevagissey	30-May-2022	Cancellation Accepted	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.603	D6 D7	Eden Project Bus Station	Lost Gardens of Heligan	30-May-2022	Cancellation Accepted	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.606	D11	Eden Project	Padstow Old Station Car Park	30-May-2022	Cancellation Accepted	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED

There are no new timetables coming into operation this coming week.

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