Plymouth Citybus Park & Ride services

 Its taken me a bit longer than planned but lets start looking back at Park & Ride in Plymouth over the years. We start by looking at the services operated by Plymouth Citybus.

I have the full service history from when services were registered by VOSA stating from April 2002 

Three registrations involved:

PH0000135.023

PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD

[PR1], MILEHOUSE Bus Depot, , VIA ROYAL PARADE A9

Effective: 15-Apr-2002

Cancelled service - never actually operated

PH0000135.029

PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD

[25 25A 25B], PLYMOUTH Railway Station, , VIA WEST HOE/GRAND PARADE

Effective: 15-Apr-2002

PH0000135.028

PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD

[PR2], MILEHOUSE Bus Depot, , VIA WESTERN APPROACH

Effective: 15-Apr-2002

Although its not obvious on the registration details PR2 was the Coypool Park & Ride while the Milehouse Park & Ride were operated as part of an extended 25 service which previously just served the seafront Barbican loop

Date	Service Number	Details
15-Apr-02	PR1	Registered from Milehouse Bus Depot via Royal Parade A9, but the registration was cancelled and the service never started.
15-Apr-02	PR2	New registration running from Milehouse Bus Depot via Western Approach.
15-Apr-02	25, 25A, 25B	New registration running from Plymouth Railway Station via West Hoe and Grand Parade.
29-Sep-02	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended to formally incorporate Milehouse Park and Ride into the route.
07-Nov-02	PR2	Timetable amended to update operations.
07-Nov-02	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended to establish a daily frequent service.
02-Jun-03	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended.
28-Sep-03	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended under short-notice application (NP2223).
11-Nov-03	PR2	Timetable amended under short-notice application (NP2230).
11-Nov-03	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended under short-notice application (NP2230).
23-May-04	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended.
25-Jul-04	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended (daily frequent service).
14-Nov-04	25, 25A, 25B	Timetable amended (daily frequent service).
21-May-05	25, 25A, 25B, 25LM	Timetable amended; Service 25 was replaced by 25A all week, and a special 25LM route operated for one day on Lord Mayor's Day (21 May 2005), with main route changes taking effect on 29 May 2005.
04-Jun-05	PR2, PR3	Timetable amended; special route PR3 operated for one night only for the Devon & Dorset Regiment City Centre event, while PR2 continued standard operations.
10-Jul-05	25, 25A, 25B, 25R	Timetable amended; special extra route 25R operated for one night only on 16 July 2005 running from Milehouse Park and Ride directly to Royal William Yard.
13-Nov-05	PR2, PR3	Timetable amended to run extra Christmas Park & Ride services, returning to standard schedules on 23 December 2005.
13-Nov-05	25, 25A, 25B, 25R	Timetable amended to run extra Christmas Park & Ride services, returning to standard schedules on 23 December 2005.
28-May-06	PR2, PR3	Service registration officially cancelled.
28-May-06	25, 25A, 25B, 25R	Service registration officially cancelled.

Next time we will look at some of the Citybus Park & Ride buses used on these services