Where does my bus stop on Royal parade from 31st August?

From Sunday 30 August 2026, bus stopping arrangements will change on the north side of Royal Parade (stops A9 to A24). These changes allow all bus services to return to Royal Parade. 

Some services will also serve stops at:

Exeter Street Viaduct

Charles Street

There are no changes to the south side of Royal Parade (stops A1 to A7).

•  Stop A9

3 Kingsbridge via Modbury

20 Ivybridge

20A Ivybridge via Plympton

38 Exeter via Buckfastleigh

80 Paignton via Totnes

• Stop A10

1A Sherford via Plymstock

19 Plympton via Plymstock

• Stop A11

2 Mount Batten via Plymstock

48 Wembury via Plymstock

• Stop A12

5 Elburton via Plymstock

5A Elburton via Plymstock

• Stop A13

8 Efford via Laira

9 Efford via Laira

• Stop A14

4 Plympton via Plymstock

4A Hooe via Plymstock

4B Elburton via Plymstock

49 Heybrook Bay via Down Thomas

54 Bovisand (Summer only)

59 George Junction P&R via Sparkwell, Cornwood, Shaugh Prior

91 Totnes via Plymstock (Friday only)

94 Noss Mayo via Yealmpton, Newton Ferrers

• Stop A15

25 Barbican & The Hoe

• Stop A16

27 Derriford Hospital via Lower Compton, Mainstone

28 George Junction P&R via Mannamead, Eggbuckland

35 Ham via Mutley, Pennycross

35A Ham via Mutley, Beacon Park

• Stop A17

61 Transit Way via Milehouse P&R, Honicknowle, Brake Farm

200 Coypool Park and Ride

• Stop A18

41 Southway via Peverell, Crownhill

44 Whitleigh via Mutley, Crownhill

• Stop A19

42B Roborough via Mutley, Crownhill, Derriford

42C Woolwell via Mutley, Crownhill, Derriford

• Stop A20

42 Southway via Mutley, Crownhill, Derriford

42A Tamerton Foliot via Derriford, Southway

42D Tamerton Foliot via Crownhill, Derriford

• Stop A21

1 Tavistock via Crownhill, Derriford, Yelverton

1A George Junction P&R via Crownhill, Derriford

• Stop A22

30 Hartley Vale via Mutley, Mannamead

31 Hartley Vale via Mutley, Mannamead

51 Derriford Hospital via Leigham, Estover

• Stop A23

21 Steer Park via Marsh Mills, Chaddlewood

21A Steer Park via Marsh Mills, St Maurice

• Stop A24

23 Mount Gould

24 Mount Gould

• Exeter Street Viaduct

B1 20, 38, 80, 200

B2 1A, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 4B, 5, 5A, 19, 48, 49, 54, 59, 91, 94

B3 8, 9, 20A, 27, 28, 35, 35A, 61

• Charles Street

C1 1, 1A

C2 42, 42A, 42B, 42C, 42D

C3 30, 31, 41, 44

• Mayflower Street

Services 8, 9, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35 and 35A will continue to operate via Mayflower Street. These services can only pick up passengers travelling to the Community Diagnostic Centre and Royal Parade

If you are travelling beyond Royal Parade, use the relevant stop on: Royal Parade, Exeter Street Viaduct, or Charles Street

Just to make it easier I have a map of the bus stops as I never know their numbers!

Sadly I cant promise Royal Parade will look quite as magnificent as it did in this image from the brilliant Plymouth Cyberheritage collection:

   

BYDs hit the road tomorrow

I am short of time for a full blog post but a few quick notes which may be of interest

BYDs

Plymouth Citybus have a few BYDs electric buses on loan from Go Ahead London and the late news is that some of these are due to go out in service tomorrow - 

There will be 8 BYD's out in service tomorrow! 5 will be on 21/21a from 6am onwards, 3 on 50/51.

Not sure what fleet numbers. (there will eventually be 20 of these in Plymouth!)

Will be interesting to compare these with the Wright Electroliners!

© Matt Bateman (with permission)

Royal Parade

Incessant heavy rain over the last few weeks has meant that unfortunately, work on Royal Parade will not finish in time for Monday 23 February as planned.
The Council and its contractors have been trying to work overnight for the last six weeks to complete the resurfacing work, but persistent heavy weather has hampered efforts.
Resurfacing can be carried out in rain, but constant heavy down pours that have been experienced recently has meant the contractors have not been able to progress.
Instead, the crew is now working to a new timetable of Monday 2 March and all the new bus stop arrangements for Royal Parade and around the city centre will be in place from that date.
Councillor John Stephens, Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Transport said: “We are so nearly there – but the extraordinary levels of rain fall have got in the way.
“We had to set a specific start date as the bus operators needed to plan their routes and inform the traffic commissioner of changes to their services.
“We also had to give people plenty of notice about locations of their new stops as there have been changes. Thank you for your continued patience.”
Next week (beginning 23 February) passengers should continue to use the stops they have used for the last seven months.
The new stops and services are planned to start from Monday 2 March.
The original resurfacing programme had been scheduled to end on 6 February and two further weeks contingency had been pencilled in just in case timings slipped. Unfortunately, this ‘buffer’ has been eaten up by consistently rotten weather.
The weather is still an issue and Saturday overnight works is unlikely go ahead as a result. Another weather front is coming in Monday.
A rare clear day on Sunday means that the east bound Royal Parade will close during the day to allow the crews to crack on with the resurfacing.
The bus operators have been informed and signs are being put in the bus shelters and on the fencing to inform passengers about the new date. Plymotion will also be out and about to talk to passengers.

and finally

The excellent Bus & Train User blog (Roger French) has been to Cornwall. Its well worth a read from someone who knows his stuff!

I popped down to Cornwall on Tuesday to check out some of the county’s bus network following First Kernow’s withdrawal at the weekend.

https://busandtrainuser.com/2026/02/19/24-hours-in-penzance-and-truro/

Terminal changes

I’ll be catching up on recent events tomorrow, but for now here are the service notices from the past week. It might seem like a lot, but with one exception, they all come down to two events:  

• 23 February – new bus stop arrangements on Royal Parade  
• 23 February – temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station  

The odd one out is Stagecoach 93, affected by the destruction of the road at Torcross. This is likely to be a long-term issue, as I can’t see the road being rebuilt anytime soon.

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	Operator
PH1020951.249	1 1A 1S X1	Plymouth	Tavistock	23-Feb-2026	Changes at Royal parade	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.237	3	Plymouth	Kingsbridge	23-Feb-2026	Changes at Royal Parade	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0000135.094	5 5A 806	Elburton	City Centre	23-Feb-2026	Relocate terminal point from Derrys Cross to Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.389	14 18	Penzance	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.095	20A 20B	Royal Parade	Ivybridge	23-Feb-2026	Changes to stopping arrangements on Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.317	20	Plymouth	Ivybridge	23-Feb-2026	Changes to stopping arrangements on Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.100	21 21A	Plympton	Barne Barton	23-Feb-2026	Changes to stopping arrangements on Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.228	22 22A	St Austell	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.006	23 24	CIty Centre	City Centre	23-Feb-2026	Relocation of city centre stops for redevelopment	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.086	25	City Centre	City Centre	23-Feb-2026	Revise terminal point from Royal Parade to Derrys Cross	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.236	36 36A	Truro	St Keverne	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.232	27	St Austell	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.388	32 32A 32B	Truro	Falmouth	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.307	40 40A 40B	Barncoose Hospital	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.304	41	Plymouth	Southway	23-Feb-2026	Relocate terminal point from Union Street to Royal Parade & revise timetable	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.008	42 42A 42D	Royal Parade	Tamerton Foliot	23-Feb-2026	Relocate terminal point from Charles St to Royal Parade & revise timrtable	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.013	43 43A	City Centre	City Centre	23-Feb-2026	Relocate teminal point to Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.183	48	Plymouth	Wembury	23-Feb-2026	Relocate terminal point from Derrys Cross to Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.076	50 51 107	Derriford	Derriford	23-Feb-2026	Relocate stop on Royal Parade (service 51)	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.243	50	St Mawes	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.126	61	Royal Parade	Royal Parade	23-Feb-2026	Relocate terminal point from Union Street to Royal Parade	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.302	84	Trelander Circular	Trelander Circular	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Staton	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.250	85 86	Newquay	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station & roadworks at Crantock	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0000135.413	87 87A	Newquay	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station, and Crantock roadworks	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH1020951.368	200	Coypool Park & Ride	Plymouth, Royal Parade	23-Feb-2026	Changes on Royal Parade	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0000135.255	91 93A 93E 93T	Newquay	Truro	23-Feb-2026	Temporary relocation of Truro Bus Station	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH1020951.238	93 93S	Kingsbridge	Dartmouth	09-Feb-2026	With the A379 closed at Torcross, we have a revised Service 93 Timetable and Route, and a shuttle bus 93S between Kingsbridge and Torcross	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH0000135.149	42C 42B	Royal Parade	Roborough	23-Feb-2026	Relocate terminal point from Charles St to Royal Parade & revise timrtable	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD

As usual you can click through the licence numbers to timetables on the route pages.

Royal Parade Scheme Progress

Plymouth’s Royal Parade improvement scheme is on the home straight with resurfacing work due to start next week as well as completing the sawtooth kerb line and paving around newly installed bus shelters.

Overnight closures next week mark the start of the final phase of this scheme which aims to reduce delays at this key bus interchange by creating more stops, cutting queues and double stacking of buses, making services more reliable and helping to make going by bus a more attractive option than the private car.

The final phase involves nighttime working over the next few weeks to cause as little disruption as possible to the travelling public.

A lot of the city centre has been built on top of concrete slabs, with post war construction debris beneath. When these slabs deteriorate, they rock and crack the road. In areas where the slab condition was bad, contractors have repaired and replaced it with full depth carriageway reconstruction during overnight closures in December.

The next series of closures will see the existing road surface removed (known as planing), a ‘binder course’ installed – which is a new sub surface, top surface and then painting on new road markings. The phases will start at Derry’s Cross and move up to St Andrew’s Cross, with planing starting on Monday 12 January, with further work taking place overnight during the following weeks (more detail to follow soon).

Councillor John Stephens, Cabinet member for Strategic Planning and Transport, said: “I’d like to thank everyone for being so patient while we carry out this scheme. We are on the final furlong and this means there will be overnight work and some disruption, but the end is in sight!

He added: “Resurfacing means we are on the home straight. I don’t want to jinx progress by giving a specific end date, but we are weeks away from finishing.

“Royal Parade is massively important to our bus network – there are over 100 buses every hour and over 9 million passenger journeys from or to Royal Parade every year.

“We are working to improve bus services to make it easier for everyone to get to work, school, shops and businesses or see family and with 25 per cent of households in Plymouth without a car, we need to improve sustainable travel choices.”

The key elements of the scheme include redesigning the road with a shallow saw-tooth layout, increasing the number of bus stops from 12 to 15. It will also prevent double stacking, unnecessary idling and improve air quality.

The new layout will improve bus manoeuvrability and safety by reducing the need for buses to reverse out from stops and allow passengers to get on and off from the pavement.

New, bigger shelters are being installed – two have been completed – two are currently going in and 11 more are coming in the next two months. These will have updated bench seating with armrests and more space for wheelchair users and pushchairs. The green roofs will be installed in the Spring when the weather is warmer for the plants.

The paving design around the shelters includes a dark grey banding which acts as reference point for bus drivers to ensure their doors align with the shelter opening when they stop. A bit further back from the kerbs, there’s more space for buses to use their ‘kneeling suspension’ to lower the bus to the kerb for wheelchair access.

The new toucan crossing which allows cyclists to cross without dismounting is complete and an average speed camera system to replace the static cameras is being installed.

High quality granite paving slabs have now been laid along the length of the pavement on this side of Royal Parade to replace worn and slippery concrete slabs.

Next week will see the planing works and closures will be:

Date	Start Time	End Time	Location/Section	Description of Works	Affected Bus Stops	Closed Pedestrian Crossings	Diversion Route
Monday 12 January	7pm	6am	Royal Parade (Eastbound / Shop side)	Planing works	A9	Outside Theatre Royal	Western Approach, Cobourg Street, Charles Street, Exeter Street
Tuesday 13 January	7pm	6am	Royal Parade (Eastbound / Shop side)	Planing works	A9	Armada Way	Western Approach, Cobourg Street, Charles Street, Exeter Street
Wednesday 14 January	7pm	6am	Royal Parade (Eastbound / Shop side)	Planing works	A9	Not in source	Western Approach, Cobourg Street, Charles Street, Exeter Street
Wednesday 14 January	11pm	6am	Royal Parade (Westbound side)	Planing works	A1 to A8	Armada Way and St Andrew’s Cross	Exeter Street, Charles Street, Cobourg Street and Western Approach
Thursday 15 January	7pm	6am	Royal Parade (Eastbound / Shop side)	Planing works	A9	Not in source	Western Approach, Cobourg Street, Charles Street, Exeter Street

Traffic will be diverted via Western Approach, Cobourg Street, Charles Street, Exeter Street when Royal Parade closes east bound and the diversion will be the opposite way for west bound ie Exeter Street, Charles Street, Cobourg Street and Western Approach. Check with bus operators for services during these times as they may take different diversions.

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