07 August 2022

Devon & Cornwall Transit 2022: Week 31

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.

Plenty to report this last week with another large batch of service alterations in Cornwall for Plymouth Citybus from 4th September 2022

We also have a few cancellations by Stagecoach for tendered Plymouth City services which it seems have gone to Citybus although their registrations have yet to come through.

As usual click through for more details. I am slowly adding the new timetables to each page as they come through.

 Licence Route Start Point End Point Effective NotesOPERATOR
PH0000135.260 1 Penzance Lands End 04-Sep-2022 Cancelled.
All journeys operated by Go Cornwall Bus will be withdrawn and operated by Cornwall by Kernow
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.171 11 Plymouth Wadebridge/Padstow 04-Sep-2022 This service will now run as Service 11 all the way through between Plymouth and Padstow. The timetable has been amended slightly to improve reliability PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.162 12 12A Bude Plymouth 04-Sep-2022 Reduce frequency between Callington and Launceston & revise timetable.
Hourly service between Plymouth and Callington maintained
Service between Callington and Launceston reduced to 2 hourly
Service between Launceston and Bude maintained at 2 hourly
Services 11, 12 and 72/A provide 3 buses per hour between Plymouth and Saltash (Monday to Saturday)
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH1020951.302 19 Plymouth, Royal Parade Plympton 04-Sep-2022 End of tender. STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.303 31 Plymouth, Mayllower Street Pennycross 03-Jan-2021 Mondayd to Fridays except Bank Holidays, Hourly Service STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0000135.268 36 St Keverne Truro 05-Sep-2022 Revise timetable. Change times for Helston school PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH1020951.287 36 Plymouth Derrys Cross City College 04-Sep-2022 Cancellation. STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0000135.237 37 37A Helston Town Helston Town 05-Sep-2022 Revised times to fit with Helston School. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.238 38 Camborne Helston 05-Sep-2022 Revised timetable to fit with revised times for Helston School PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.239 39 Helston Camborne 05-Sep-2022 Revised timetable to fit with revised times for Helston School & additional positional journeys. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.240 39A 39M Camborne Penzance 05-Sep-2022 Withdraw 39H journeys. Add positional journeys & revise timetable. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.241  45 45A Troon Pool 04-Sep-2022 Cancelled.
Withdrawn and destinations covered by services 36/40/46/48/49
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.242 46 Camborne Truro 04-Sep-2022 Cancelled.
Withdrawn and destinations covered by services 36/40/46/48/49
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.308 46 Camborne Illogan 04-Sep-2022 New Service.
Hourly service between Illogan, Pool Tesco, Pengegon and Camborne, replacing part of the former Services 46 and 47
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.274 48 Troon Barncoose Hospital 04-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points, route, service number  & timetable .
48 Evenings and weekends only. Due to low passenger numbers, this will run between Redruth to Troon via Camborne. Anyone wanting to travel to Truro will be able to take the T1 from Redruth
49 New service operating hourly between Redruth, Portreath, Pool, Camborne and Troon, replacing the existing Service 47
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.243 50 St Mawes Truro 04-Sep-2022 Revise timetable for changed schoolday at Penair school and to improve connections with service 51 at Tregony. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.247 58 Newquay Town Service Newquay Town Service 05-Sep-2022 Revise timetable.
Journeys are retimed to run slightly later
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.164 72 72A 171 Plymouth Polperro 04-Sep-2022 This service will operate a revised timetable for the winter period
This service will no longer serve Hannafore Point, which will be covered by Service 77. Registration now includes service 171
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.163 73 St Cleer Polperro 04-Sep-2022 Extend route to St Cleer (church) or Pensilva.  Reduced service between Tregoad & Polperro. Revise route, terminal points & timetable. Service between Polperro and Tregoad via Looe will be returned to an hourly service PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.165 74,174 Callington, Pensilva, St Cleer Liskeard 05-Sep-2022 Revised timetable.
Service has been revised to run from Callington to Pensilva only

Links for students going to and from Liskeard College have been maintained

The section of route between Pensilva and Liskeard will be covered by Services 236/237
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.187 77 Liskeard Looe 05-Sep-2022 This service will end in Liskeard and will not carry on to Menheniot. Due to extremely low passenger numbers Menheniot will no longer be served

This route will run via Hannafore Point to replace service 72
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.160 79 79A 174 Tavistock Callington 05-Sep-2022 Add service 174 Kelly Bray - Calstock & 79A with direct jurneys between Calington & Gunnislake. Revise timetable
Additional journeys running direct between Callington and Tavistock have been introduced following requests from passengers. This service will be reviewed if passenger numbers do not increase
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.302 84 Truro Truro 05-Sep-2022 Timetable Change PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.250 85 Truro (Chellew Road or BusStation) Newquay 05-Sep-2022 Revised timetable including pm journey from Penair School
Timetable has been slightly retimed to improve reliability
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.252 88 Redruth, Blackwater, Goonhavern Newquay 05-Sep-2022 Revised route in Redruth to avoid low bridge. Current 88S built into standard 88 service. On schooldays, morning journey serves St Day & Vogue. Route and timetable varied accordingly. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.209 89 Bodmin Truro 05-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points and timetable.
Route has been revised and will not go through Roche and St Dennis due to low passenger numbers. There will be a faster route through Summercourt, Victoria and St Columb Major

Roche and St Dennis will be covered by Services 21 and 26
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.278 89 Bodmin Truro 05-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points & timetable.
Route has been revised and will not go through Roche and St Dennis due to low passenger numbers. There will be a faster route through Summercourt, Victoria and St Columb Major

Roche and St Dennis will be covered by Services 21 and 26
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.257 95 95S Bude Newquay 04-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points: Camelford to Newquay. Additional journeys beween Wadebridge or St Columb Major and Newquay. Add Service 95S serving Blackcross & Tretherras School.
Will run via Crackington Haven to replace Service 94 and will extend from St Columb Major to Newquay

Improved connections at St Columb Major for Service 89 to Truro

Replaces evening service 93 between Newquay and St Columb Major

This service, with Services 21 and 91, will provide a 20 minute service between Newquay and St Columb Minor
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.277 96, 96S, 96A, 96B Bodmin Wadebridge 05-Sep-2022 96 will now only operate between Wadebridge, Camelford and onto Bodmin, replacing Service 55

Journeys between Camelford and Launceston are renumbered 97
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.276 97 97S Camelford Launceston 05-Sep-2022 Renumber service to 97 or 97S & revise timetable.
New service number to replace Service 96 from Camelford to Launceston
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.282 112 Callington Community College North Hill 05-Sep-2022 To run from/to North Hill instead of Minioons. To change terminal points, route and timetable accordingly. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.189 172 Milehouse Callywith College, Bodmin 05-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points: Torpoint (Ferry) to Bodmin (Callywith College) & revise route & timetable accordingly. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.192 176 177 178 76A 179 Launceston Callywith College 05-Sep-2022 Withdraw service 76. Service 176 extended to Lifton in the morning. Service 179 added. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.191 179 Gunnislake Callywith College, Bodmin 05-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points: Tavistock (bus station) to Launcston (Westgate St). Revise route & timetable accordingly. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.193 180 Bude Callywith College, Bodmin 05-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points: Kilkhampton to Camelford. Revise route and timetable accordingly. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.310 183 Camelford Bodmin, Callywith College 05-Sep-2022 New Service PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.309 185 Newquay Bodmin (Callywith College) 05-Sep-2022 New Service PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.219 186 Indian Queens Bodmin (Callywith College) 05-Sep-2022 Revise terminal points, route and timetable to start/finish at Indian Queens. PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH1020951.235 200 Coypool Park & Ride Plymouth Royal Parade 04-Sep-2022 End of tender. STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0000135.303 235 Callington Launceston 04-Sep-2022 Cancelled.
This was a trial route and will be withdrawn due to low passenger numbers. Passengers can still use Service 237
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.267 236 237 Launceston Liskeard 05-Sep-2022 236 Revise route & timetable.
Revised route between Liskeard and Upton Cross. All journeys via North Hill

Saturday service between Liskeard and Pensilva is replacing Service 74

Most journeys will run via Darite and Pensilva replacing Service 74

No service to Bathpool as no passengers used this part of the route
237 This service covers areas around Rilla Mill, Linkinhorne & Coads Green replacing Service 236 and providing links to Launceston and Liskeard
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.273 425 426 North Petherwin Attarnun 05-Sep-2022 Revise route & timetable.
Returned to previous timetable due to passenger feedback
PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD

There are clearly a lot more coming through for Cornwall from the same weekend as new timetables are appearing for First Kernow. I am sure these will be coming through over the coming days.

There are no changes due this coming week

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20 comments:

  1. Interesting that the 200 Coypool P&R is cancelled, is this also being picked up by PCB?

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    1. No sign of it so far! New registrations are starting to appear for the Oakleys services and the Stagecoach 36. probably more to follow

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    2. Stagecoach don't seem to know what they're doing or what they want to do. To be honest PCB is no better but in the long run maybe it would be better to have just one big operator and several smaller ones doing the odd job work.

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    3. No replacement for 200..... I suspect as it was cut so drastically and supported at the end by PCC it is not financially viable. 101 is also withdrawn replacement will be enhanced service 1 every 10 mins George to town... every 2nd one will provide 20 min service to Tavistock. I believe PCB 61 will divert to serve milehouse

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  2. Now stagecoach have lost the 36 service, they should put the deckers on their 3 service from Plymouth to Dartmouth, there's so much potential in this route for tourism as the views from a double decker are spectacular.

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    1. Stagecoach abandoned regular use of DD on 3 as too expensive! Agree should be for tourism & capacity.

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  3. What about an open top service from Dartmouth to Kingsbridge, best coastal views in the country

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    1. Dident first try this using a grampion leyland in the 90s.
      Has the 31 been cancelled or renewed but with new timetable

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    2. First tried it one year only as route 393 back in early 2000s

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  4. Any news on the Gold service?

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    1. Yes, the new Gold timetable is on Traveline. The route is withdrawn between Torquay and Paignton but otherwise existing frequency is maintained.

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    2. I think Gold will continue every 30 mins in general Plymouth to Paignton only and not serve Torquay.

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    3. Also speeded up not serving Totnes Westonfields anymore

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  5. They'll be pleased

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  6. Any reason why it is not going westonfields as it always picks up loads of people and is a very good service with the gold service, the 88 is a complete waste of time finishes by 6pm no one is going to use that rubbish service, I think they do it to get people back in their cars, first bus did this a route works well customer s get the bus runs regularly and late into the evening then they decide to change it and then no one catches it and then they reduce the service and because they cut the service they have lost all those customers and lost lots of money

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    1. Not role of fast interurban route to provide local estate service into town & smaller buses used on 88 better suited to roads there. Not particularly busy section of route delaying through passengers. Cuts Gold resources safeguarding overall route.

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    2. I had feared for Gold as passenger numbers didn't seem to be recovering that well after the pandemic, but it has started picking up now. My impression is that it is poorly used between Paignton and Torquay (except when there is a gap on the 12). Also there seem to be few using the service in Westonfields who would not be catered for by the 88 extension, especially as the loop can be operated in the time that the buses currently have for layover in Totnes. These changes will allow a couple of buses and some drivers duties to be removed from the route to cut costs, which will enable the core service between Paignton and Plymouth to continue at existing frequencies.

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  7. Is it just me but are both Stagecoach and Citybus leaving it very late to tell customers about pretty major changes and cancellations due in 3 weeks time?

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    1. I agree with you there. Citybus are usually pretty good but this time seems to be a lot slower. I do wonder if there are still a few changes to be ironed out to try and fill some gaps. Hopefully we will find out the full picture very soon

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