CARLISLE CITY, GRETNA, ANNAN AND DUMFRIES AREA SERVICE CHANGES
TIMETABLE CHANGES
Carlisle city, Gretna, Annan and Dumfries area service changes – 28th February 2011
Stagecoach is making a number of changes to services from the above date, particularly affecting the Carlisle to Dumfries corridor.
Full details are as follows:
62 Morton Park – city centre – Lowry Hill – Asda
Following customer requests, we will be diverting the Monday to Saturday, 2115 hours journey on service 79 (Carlisle – Annan), to operate via Lowry Hill estate.
76 St. Anns Hill – Stanwix – city centre – Botcherby – Durranhill
A revised timetable will be introduced, in order to improve the overall reliability of this service. We are constantly monitoring the reliability of our bus services and believe that this timetable change will ensure that the timetable remains robust in the face of increasing traffic congestion. There will be no change to the frequency of the service at any time of day.
79. 179, 379 Carlisle – Longtown – Gretna – Annan – Dumfries
These services will be revised to become:
79. 179, 279 Carlisle – Longtown – Gretna – Annan
with guaranteed connections at Annan for
379 Annan – Dumfries
In order to ensure that we can continue to effectively operate these bus services, route 79 will be split into two sections, operating Carlisle to Annan and then Annan to Dumfries. Customers should note that they will still be able to purchase through-tickets and in most cases, will not even have to change bus in Annan bus station, as the buses will simply change their number at Annan. All connections through Annan will be guaranteed in both directions.
Following customer requests, we will divert the Monday to Saturday 2115 hours service 79 (Carlisle to Annan), to serve Lowry Hill estate. It will divert from Scotland Road to serve the same loop that our regular service 62 does. Also, the service 79 bus which calls into Asda at 2201 hours, heading back to Carlisle city centre, will now depart Asda a few minutes later, to assist staff who have a shift change at 2200 hours.
In addition to the above, there will be some minor timetable changes to certain journeys and those journeys between Annan and Carlisle that are currently numbered 379, will become 279 instead.
80 Annan town service
The timetable of service 80 will not change, however, in connection with the wider renumbering of the 79/179/379, those journeys shown as 379 in the service 80 timetable, will now be numbered 279 instead.
279 Eastriggs – Annan Academy
This service will be renumbered to 579, as part of the wider changes to the services mentioned above. There are no changes to the timetable.
NEW TIMETABLE BOOKLETS FOR CARLISLE CITY and 79, 80, 179, 279, 379, 579 WILL BE AVAILABLE MID-FEBRUARY 2011.