A Varied Selection

Its getting a bit busier with a crop of new timetables coming up along with some other odds and ends too:

First Hants & Dorset Ltd

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH0006159.414	X51 X53	Bridport Coach Station	Axminster Rail Station	22-Oct-2023	Timetable variation Jurassic Coaster services X51 and X53 will have a reduced timetable introduced for the winter season.

NC Eastwood – Royal Buses

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH1086607.016	150	Riviera Sands	Royal Square	09-Oct-2023	Cancel: This looks like an old service which was cancelled ages ago (2016?)

Plymouth Citybus – Go Cornwall

We are still getting the September changes trickling through – but most of these are for 29th October. Noting major so far though

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH0000135.187	77 77S	Polperro	Liskeard	04-Sep-2023	Revised route, terminal points & timetable. Timetable revised to provide an hourly headway between Liskeard to Trago Mills when combined with service 11
PH0000135.161	12 12A 12B	Bude	Launceston	29-Oct-2023	Retime 0710 ex Bude to 0705 on Schooldays
PH0000135.162	12 12A 12D 178	Bude	Plymouth	29-Oct-2023	Run 1325 ex Bude via Saltash School at 1521 on School days
PH0000135.227	21	St Austell	Newquay	29-Oct-2023	Revise route and timetable for 1525 ex Poltair School
PH0000135.231	26	St Austell	Bodmin	29-Oct-2023	Revise 1415 ex Bodmin to serve Penair school before St Austell Bus Station
PH0000135.311	36	Plymouth, Royal Parade	Plymouth, City College	29-Oct-2023	To provide additional late journey at request of the College
PH0000135.238	38	Camborne	Helston	29-Oct-2023	Revise time of journey serving Camborne Academy
PH0000135.239	39	Helston	Camborne	29-Oct-2023	Revise times for reliability
PH0000135.159	75	Liskeard	Torpoint	29-Oct-2023	Timetable variation

Roselyn Coaches Ltd

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH1038599.001	Plymouth Argyle	ST AUSTELL	PLYMOUTH ARGYLE	18-Dec-2023	Cancel

Stagecoach Devon Ltd

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH1020951.288	2F	Plymouth Royal Parade	Mount Batten	01-Dec-2023	Annual event service for Fireworks registration cancelled after this years event
PH1020951.289	2F1	Plymouth City Centre	Saltash	01-Dec-2023	Annual event service for Fireworks registration cancelled after this years event

Summercourt Travel Ltd Travel Cornwall

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes
PH1011427.071	454A	Bodmin, Mt. Folly	Bodmin, Barn Lane/ Rock Lane	09-Oct-2023	Cancel. This looks like an old service which was cancelled ages ago?

I have noticed a few other new timetables appearing on Traveline from 29 October too including First Kernow and Stagecoach so i expect to see a few more this coming week

This Next week

Apart from the First H&D X51 noted above there are no other planned new timetables this week

Devon & Cornwall Transit 2023 Week 7

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.

New Notices from this week

NICHOLAS COLIN EASTWOOD

The only new notices this week: Setting up the summer season services for St Ives.

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	Timetable
PH1086607.021	2	St Ives, Trenwith Car Park	St Ives, Royal Square	21-Mar-2023	Timetable variation	tbc
PH1086607.010	2a	St Ives, Royal Square	St Ives, Trenwith Car Park	27-May-2023	Timetable variation	tbc
PH1086607.005	33	St Ives, Royal Square	Higher Penderleath Caravan & Camping Park	09-Jul-2023	Timetable variation	tbc
PH1086607.019	44	St Ives, Royal Square	Trevalgan Touring Park	30-Apr-2023	Timetable variation	tbc
PH1086607.014	55	St Ives, Royal Square	Polmanter	02-Apr-2023	Timetable variation	tbc

No new timetables due this coming week

social media

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— Go Cornwall Bus (@GoCornwallBuses) February 11, 2023

Service 1 Plymouth to Tavistock is still currently diverting from Manadon Roundabout to Crownhill via St.Peters Rd due to the ongoing road closure on Manadon hill. We will be operating this diversion until further notice. pic.twitter.com/0ehfPX2Xrw

— Stagecoach South West (@StagecoachSW) February 11, 2023

Local News

Stagecoach has announced further cuts to its bus services, this time axing vital buses that transport pupils to and from a large Exeter secondary school. As of April 1, the bus operator will no longer be running three buses from different parts of the city to St Peter's Church of England School in Quarry Lane on the edge of Broadfields and Middlemore. [Archive]

The success of a reduced bus fares pilot, the Council’s bus service improvement plan and the results of a pilot project offering care leavers in Cornwall free bus travel were on the agenda for Department for Transport Minister Richard Holden’s visit to Cornwall on Thursday 9 February.  Mr Holden, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, is visiting Cornwall and travelling by bus from Cornwall Airport Newquay to Truro bus station where he heard first-hand about Cornwall’s successful bus fares pilot which, combined with the government’s £2 flat fare single journey scheme, has encouraged more residents to get back on the bus.  [Archive]

Industry News

FirstGroup has reached agreement to purchase Purfleet-based Ensignbus from the Newman family in a surprise deal. When completed, it will include the local bus and contract service operation and 55 vehicles along with the resale and refurbishment business, but not the heritage coach and bus fleet [Archive]

Hundreds more of England’s dwindling bus services could be axed next week with a funding shortfall looming, transport authorities have warned.Labour said the government had “just 10 days to act” before operators start having to cut routes because of the expiry of post-pandemic state support.The bus recovery grant, brought in to keep services running as passenger numbers slowly returned after Covid-19, will run out at the end of March, after an emergency £130m six-month extension averted a similar financial cliff-edge last summer. [Archive]

Devon & Cornwall Transit 2022: Week 21

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.

Bit of an odd bag this week as there seems to be nothing of any substance:

• Taw & Torridge looks like an admin issue more than anything as the new timetable came into place on the 29th May – the new notices presumably just tidy up the old PH0004727/21 licence into PH0004721/22.
• Filers Travel 309 310 – Must be a correction to the new timetable introduced 29th May
• Stagecoach: New timetables backdated to 8th May – there was no mention of any changes to these services at the time by Stagecoach so they cant be anything major!

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH0004727.021	31	Ilfracombe, St James Place Gardens	Woolacombe, Sands	30-May-2022	CANCELLATION: service continues under PH0004727.022	TAW AND TORRIDGE COACHES LTD
PH0004727.022	31	Ilfracombe, St James Place Gardens	Woolacombe Sands	30-May-2022	Variation to timetable. Presume tidy up as PH0004727.022 runs added to this licence	TAW AND TORRIDGE COACHES LTD
PH1066351.019	309 310	Lynton/ Lynmouth, Parracombe, Blackmoor Gate	Barnstaple Bus Station	30-May-2022	Timetable variation - cant see any change from 29th May timetable myself	FILERS TRAVEL LIMITED
PH1020951.052	GREEN	Sowton	Matford Park & Ride	08-May-2022	Timetable variation	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.332	K	Exeter City Centre	Exeter Science Park	08-May-2022	Timetable variation	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.321	L	Exeter South Street	Pinhoe	08-May-2022	Timetable variation	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.105	P	Crossmead	Pennsylvania	08-May-2022	Timetable variation	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.058	RED	Exeter, Paris Street	Honiton Road Park & Ride	08-May-2022	Timetable variation	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.334	UNI	University of Exeter Streatham	High Street and University of Exeter St Lukes	08-May-2022	Timetable variation	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD

Due this coming week

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH1086607.010	2A	St Ives, Royal Square	St Ives, Trenwith Car Park	04-Jun-2022	New timetable published	NICHOLAS COLIN EASTWOOD
PH0004983.490	30	Taunton, Parade	Axminster Railway station	05-Jun-2022	The route will change in Taunton to serve the new health centre, with buses running along Lisieux Way and Blackbrook Way instead of Hamilton Road. There are minor changes to the timetable.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004727.021	31	Ilfracombe, St James Place Gardens	Woolacombe, Sands	30-May-2022	CANCELLATION: service continues under PH0004727.022	TAW AND TORRIDGE COACHES LTD
PH0004727.022	31	Ilfracombe, St James Place Gardens	Woolacombe Sands	30-May-2022	Variation to timetable. Presume tidy up as PH0004727.022 runs added to this licence	TAW AND TORRIDGE COACHES LTD
PH1086607.019	44	St Ives, Royal Square	St Ives, Royal Square	05-Jun-2022	Revised timetable and operating dates for 2022 season. Inc new timetables 5 June 2022	NICHOLAS COLIN EASTWOOD
PH1066351.019	309 310	Lynton/ Lynmouth, Parracombe, Blackmoor Gate	Barnstaple Bus Station	30-May-2022	Timetable variation - cant see any change from 29th May timetable myself	FILERS TRAVEL LIMITED
PH0005305.059	369	Morchard Bishop, Greenway	Exeter, Sidwell Street	30-May-2022	Variation to route, timetable and stopping places	DEALTOP LIMITED
PH0004983.599	D1	Eden Project Bus Station	Newquay Bus Station	30-May-2022	Revised timetable for summer 2022 one journey runs in each direction on weekdays.	FIRST SOUTH WEST 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 (from 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 (from 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. (from 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
PH0004983.486	X22	Taunton, Castle Way	Rockwell Green/ Tonedale/ Tiverton	05-Jun-2022	Minor changes to the timetable on Mondays to Fridays, and on Saturdays buses will run up to every 20 mins. Buses to/from Tiverton and Cullompton are renumbered X22.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED

Its been a busy week on Twitter…

Check these two beauties out! Fresh from our paint shop, and heading out on the road later today, let us know if you spot them! #PlatinumJubilee #proudtoserve pic.twitter.com/g7QZhVcnro

— Stagecoach South West (@StagecoachSW) May 24, 2022

We’re ready to roll. Our latest adventures take us beyond Lynmouth, up to Lyndon and beyond to Ilfracombe. pic.twitter.com/jwicz00aW7

— Marc Huws (@MarcMorganHuws) May 27, 2022

Pretty in pink… pic.twitter.com/wZZpNHhKOC

— Marc Huws (@MarcMorganHuws) May 26, 2022