Substantive bus service withdrawals post-Covid

[johncrossley]

Nah, trust me, Italy is even worse. And Greece...

Buses seem pretty comprehensive in urban areas in Italy, and fares are cheap. They also allow you to change between different modes of transport using a single ticket like in most of Europe. That's not the case in the UK. Maybe a different story in rural areas. Britain has historically spent money on rural buses to keep them going but ignored city buses, which are (were?) supposed to be self-financing.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Where you did you get that idea? It has long had one of the worst reputations in Europe. Nowhere else in western Europe and probably most of the rest of Europe funds buses less.

Nah, trust me, Italy is even worse. And Greece...

Not exactly on topic (but from experience, there are exemplars in Western Europe - Netherlands, Germany but also less impressive when you look at other areas like Spain and Portugal).

Much of the issue in the UK is a toxic mix of increasing costs, a massive shortage of drivers, and a shift where 20% of passengers have disappeared.

 

[SouthEastBuses]

Buses seem pretty comprehensive in urban areas in Italy, and fares are cheap. They also allow you to change between different modes of transport using a single ticket like in most of Europe. That's not the case in the UK. Maybe a different story in rural areas. Britain has historically spent money on rural buses to keep them going but ignored city buses, which are (were?) supposed to be self-financing.

I have lived in Italy for half of my life so far.

Buses are ok in cities. Reasonably frequent with fairly priced integrated tickets. But most of the time, they rarely bother turning up, sometimes without notice. I have once been victim, in Naples, of a bus not turning up without notice, and I was forced to get the metro as a result.

Rural areas, a completely different story. Buses effectively only exist to transport students into school, even in large villages which have a population of 4,000-5,000 and usually use step entrance coaches that don't have wheelchair access. Whilst in the UK, all local services always use low floor accessible buses, and as it rightly should be so.

Now the UK isn't perfect, absolutely. Dual doors almost completely absent outside of London, Brighton, York, Bristol and Bath, even in big cities like Birmingham and Manchester, leading to increased dwell times making journeys inefficient. But at least the buses do turn up and are reasonably frequent. Ok, they're no use for rural routes, but necessary on city.

Integration does exist in the UK however. Nottingham for example has the £5.60 Robin Hood ticket which allows travel on any bus, tram and train in the city. Bristol also has something similar for about £8, can't remember what it's called tho.

 

[johncrossley]

Integration does exist in the UK however. Nottingham for example has the £5.60 Robin Hood ticket which allows travel on any bus, tram and train in the city.

Daily and longer tickets like that exist throughout the UK. Nottingham is nothing special in that regard. But there is almost no integration for single tickets. With a few exceptions, you can't even change buses without getting another ticket.

 

[SouthEastBuses]

Daily and longer tickets like that exist throughout the UK. Nottingham is nothing special in that regard. But there is almost no integration for single tickets. With a few exceptions, you can't even change buses without getting another ticket.

I'm pretty sure everywhere in Europe, if not the whole world, is like that. If you need to use more than one bus then you buy a day or multitrip ticket which allows you to travel on any bus you want or need to catch

 

[johncrossley]

I'm pretty sure everywhere in Europe, if not the whole world, is like that. If you need to use more than one bus then you buy a day or multitrip ticket which allows you to travel on any bus you want or need to catch

You can certainly change buses in Italian cities on the same single ticket. Certainly the ones I've been in. The typical rule in much (most?) of Europe is that a single ticket allows you unlimited travel for a certain time period, maybe 60 or 90 minutes.

 

[SouthEastBuses]

You can certainly change buses in Italian cities on the same single ticket. Certainly the ones I've been in. The typical rule in much (most?) of Europe is that a single ticket allows you unlimited travel for a certain time period, maybe 60 or 90 minutes.

This exists in the UK too, or at least at my local bus company (Go Ahead Metrobus Crawley).

You can buy a 60 minute ticket (albeit on mobile only)

 

[johncrossley]

This exists in the UK too, or at least at my local bus company (Go Ahead Metrobus Crawley).

You can buy a 60 minute ticket (albeit on mobile only)

That's a very exceptional case. London is of course another example. But that only started a few years ago. And some people here want to scrap the so-called "Hopper Fare" to save money. You still can't change from bus to tube on a single fare, unlike Italian cities.

 

[RT4038]

Where you did you get that idea? It has long had one of the worst reputations in Europe.

Worst reputations to whom exactly? Europhile bus enthusiasts?

You can certainly change buses in Italian cities on the same single ticket. Certainly the ones I've been in. The typical rule in much (most?) of Europe is that a single ticket allows you unlimited travel for a certain time period, maybe 60 or 90 minutes.

Changing buses without buying another ticket for single fares is not exactly the main factor of comparisons between bus systems. One factor possibly. Inter alia, coverage, frequency, information provision, comfort, capacity, fare levels (in the round), reliability are others too. The UK does not do too bad on many of these.

 

[SouthEastBuses]

Worst reputations to whom exactly? Europhile bus enthusiasts?

Changing buses without buying another ticket for single fares is not exactly the main factor of comparisons between bus systems. One factor possibly. Inter alia, coverage, frequency, information provision, comfort, capacity, fare levels (in the round), reliability are others too. The UK does not do too bad on many of these.

Exactly. Italy and Greece are much worse than the UK. And I say it from a person who has lived in Italy for half of his life, and has visited Greece at least 4 times in his entire life

 

[RELL6L]

First Worcester not Stagecoach.
Stagecoach don't have any services in Birmingham and haven't for many years and of course neither do First anymore.
NXWM 144A runs Longbridge - Bromsgrove only.
Diamond Walsall - Lichfield 35's last day is today I think, X16 Birmingham - Tamworth estates was yesterday.

On the other hand NX enhance the 28 from every 15 mins back to every 12 from early October.

Thanks, yes there were a couple of errors. Thanks to great work by @Typhoon this list is now in alphabetical order of operator:

Operator & route	Between	Outcome	Funded
Arriva Kent 155	Chatham to Maidstone, hourly through service	Still runs Chatham to Borstal, rest cut back to school journeys, very occasional shopper bus
Arriva Kent 308	Gravesend to Sevenoaks, every 90 minutes	Reprieved, operated by Redroute to same times	Kent
Arriva Midlands North 544/546	Shrewsbury to Little Lythe / Pulverbatch, combined hourly	Temporary reprieve, unchanged	Shropshire
Arriva Midlands North 738/740	Knighton to Ludlow, 4 times a day	Reprieved temporarily	Shropshire
Arriva Midlands North 9	Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth, hourly	Temporary reprieve, unchanged	Shropshire
Arriva North East 86	Bishop Auckland to Toft Hill, hourly	Replaced by Rural Link 87	Durham
Carousel 103	Amersham to Rickmansworth, hourly	Partly replaced by Arriva 335/336, four journeys to Amersham	Bucks, Herts?
Carousel 103 (again)	Beaconsfield to Amersham, hourly	Withdrawn, diverted instead from Beaconsfield to Slough
Carousel 40	High Wycombe to Thame, hourly	Being continued by Red Rose, mainly commercial
Centrebus 19	Melton Mowbray to Nottingham, two hourly	Withdrawn
Centrebus 9	Stamford to Oakham	Replacement Rutland minibus R9, reduced	Rutland
Centrebus RF1	Melton Mowbray to Corby, hourly	Replacement from Blands R1, reduced to 7/8 journeys	Rutland
Diamond 15	Tamworth to Hurley, hourly	Reprieved, renumbered 76B	Partnership with Warwickshire
Diamond 247	Redditch to Evesham via Alcester, hourly	Reprieved, reduced frequency and different route Redditch-Studley	Partnership with Worcestershire
Diamond 35	Walsall to Lichfield, hourly	Withdrawn
Diamond 52	Redditch to Kidderminster, hourly	Reprieved	Partnership with Worcestershire
Diamond X20	Solihull to Stratford, hourly	Replaced by Stagecoach X20, hourly	Warwickshire
East Yorkshire 45	Market Weighton to Driffield, two hourly	Token service, mostly withdrawn, through links to day trip in Bridlington lost.	E Yorkshire
East Yorkshire 55	Elloughton to Gilberdyke, hourly	Retained off peak, all peak service to Hull withdrawn	E Yorkshire
First Potteries Kingfisher (32)	Hanley to Uttoxeter, hourly	Being replaced by D & G Buses
First West of England 126	Wells to Weston Super Mare, hourly	Proposed to withdraw
First West of England 173	Bath to Wells, hourly	Proposal to withdraw reversed by First
First West of England X2	Bristol to Yatton, hourly	Proposed to withdraw
First West of England X5	Bristol to Weston via Portishead & Clevedon, hourly	Temporary reprieve announced between Portishead and Worle
First Worcester 144	Bromsgrove to Longbridge (& Birmingham), hourly	Temporary NXWM service 144a Bromsgrove to Longbridge every 70 minutes	Worcestershire
Go Cornwall	Some other more obscure services introduced in 2020 have been withdrawn	Most were probably never going to be sustainable.
Go Cornwall 11	Liskeard to Bodmin Parkway, hourly	Reprieved, mostly hourly, temporary. Now back to hourly throughout (Sep 22)
Go Cornwall 46,47	Village routes between Redruth & Truro, hourly	Withdrawn, some local replacements
Go Cornwall 74	Liskeard to Callington	Very substantially reduced between Liskeard and Pensilva except school times
Go Cornwall 76	Launceston to Bodmin	Withdrawn, was experimental, probably never a good idea.
Go North East 25	Chester-le-Street to Langley Park, 30 mins	Replaced by Weardale 725, hourly	Durham
Go North East 30 & 31	Stanley to Quaking Houses 2bph, East Stanley 1bph	Replaced by J H Travel, same times	Durham
High Peak Transpeak	Derby to Matlock, hourly	Reprieved, continues unchanged	Derbyshire
Hulley X57	Snake Pass, Ladybower to Glossop, two hourly	Withdrawn. Maybe a special case as introduction was so recent.
Kinch 2	Loughborough to Leicester via Sileby, hourly	Reduced to Loughborough to Sileby only, approx every 80 minutes
Metroline 84	Barnet to St Albans via Potters Bar, 30 minutes	Reprieved between Potters Bar and St Albans by Sullivan, withdrawn Potters Bar to Barnet	Hertfordshire
Stagecoach Cumbria 93/A	Carlisle to Bowness on Solway, 5 journeys	Reprieved	Carlisle and Allerdale councils
Stagecoach Devon 1	Tiverton to Cullompton via Uffculme, hourly	Replaced by Stagecoach & Dartline funded service 373	Devon
Stagecoach Devon 4	Cranbrook to Honiton half hourly, Axminster hourly	Replaced by Stagecoach funded services 44/44A, reduced frequency	Devon
Stagecoach Devon 9A	Seaton to Lyme Regis, hourly	Partly replaced by Axe Valley Mini Travel service 378, 2-5 journeys per day	Devon
Stagecoach East 41	Bedford to Northampton, currently 90 minutes	Still running every 90 minutes
Stagecoach Manchester	Many other routes	More info to follow, but high likelihood of replacement by TfGM
Stagecoach Manchester 237	Ashton under Lyne to Glossop, every 20 mins	Only just announced – from October, may not be the full picture
Stagecoach Manchester 358	Stockport to Marple, New Mills, Hayfield, hourly	Only just announced – from October, may not be the full picture
Stagecoach N Lancs 80,81	Lancaster to Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton, hourly combined	Reprieved within Lancashire by K Lonsdale Coach Hire in different format, token replacement in Yorkshire	Lancashire
Stagecoach Oxford 200	Banbury to Daventry hourly	Reprieved temporarily, extended to Jan 2023	Oxfordshire & Northamptonshire
Stagecoach South / Reading 7	Aldershot to Reading, hourly, connecting at Hartley Wintney	Withdrawn. Some remains Aldershot to Fleet and Hartley Wintney, Reading Buses have covered Reading to Riseley, both much reduced
Stagecoach South East 11	Canterbury to Westwood, 5 journeys	School and one off-peak journey reprieved, to be confirmed	Kent?
Stagecoach South East 7	Canterbury to Herne Bay via Hoath, hourly	Withdrawn between Canterbury and Hillborough (Herne Bay)
Stagecoach South East 33	Margate to Ramsgate via Kingsgate	Withdrawn as of 29/08/2022
Stagecoach South East 37	Margate to Broadstairs via Westwood	Withdrawn as of 29/08/2022
Stagecoach South West 92	Totnes to Dartmouth, roughly two hourly	Reprieved, similar timetable	Devon
Stagecoach West 32,132	Newent to Ross & Ledbury, each two hourly	Withdrawn except school journeys to Ross. Gloucester to Newent remains
Stagecoach West Scotland 101/101A/102	Edinburgh to Biggar, hourly, 4 journeys to Moffat and Dumfries, tendered	Reprieved until March 2023	Scottish Borders?
Stagecoach West Scotland X34/36	Glasgow to Ardrossan, hourly	X36 temporary reprieve, hourly Glasgow to Dalry, 2 peak journeys Ardrossan	SPT / Scottish government?
Stagecoach Yorkshire 53	Mansfield to Sheffield via Clowne, 6 journeys	Reprieved
Travel Wright	All services ceased, not sure if anything was commercial or substantive.	Some been taken over. 367 Newark to Collingham and beyond remains, Gem Mini Travel. Some lost?
Trent Barton 141	Nottingham to Hucknall, Mansfield, Sutton via villages, hourly	Reprieved by Nottinghamshire for a year, Stagecoach running	Nottinghamshire

 

[ivanhoe]

Kinchbus Loughborough are struggling . Cuts to No 2 and Skylink Derby which are omitting villages (Long Whatton &Disewortj) from next month. No 2 will no longer run to Leicester, terminating at Sileby.
Villages such as Sileby,Barrow and Cossington lose their Leicester connections Post COVID is really affecting Kinchbus

 

[ElBoiii]

In October last year the X10 from Barnsley to Leeds had its frequency reduced to peak only. TravelSouthYorkshire really needs to sort themselves out.

https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/getmedia/c90660f9-bdee-46af-876a-145c5cac9ef9/X10-Barnsley-valid-from-30-October-2021-(PDF-557kb).pdf

 

[NorthernSpirit]

In October last year the X10 from Barnsley to Leeds had its frequency reduced to peak only. TravelSouthYorkshire really needs to sort themselves out.

https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/getmedia/c90660f9-bdee-46af-876a-145c5cac9ef9/X10-Barnsley-valid-from-30-October-2021-(PDF-557kb).pdf

Personally that X10 should be replaced with an extended X17 (currently Matlock to Barnsley), as the current X10 is nothing more of a shell of its former self.

 

[RELL6L]

There appear to be some First cuts in West Yorkshire on the horizon. Looking at the registration details on BusTimes these could include the X84 between Otley and Ilkley and the 308 between Honley and Holmfirth. The West Yorkshire forum suggests some deeper cuts but they aren't on here (eg 539, 571 also the 615/6/9 network west of Bradford) and also the X98/99 expected to go to Transdev as noted on that thread. Too early to be sure though. There were lots of cuts mooted in Manchester that haven't yet seen the light of day.

 

[Robertj21a]

Kinchbus Loughborough are struggling . Cuts to No 2 and Skylink Derby which are omitting villages (Long Whatton &Disewortj) from next month. No 2 will no longer run to Leicester, terminating at Sileby.
Villages such as Sileby,Barrow and Cossington lose their Leicester connections Post COVID is really affecting Kinchbus

It's the ongoing lack of drivers that is killing Kinchbus. Very poor reliability.

 

[NorthernSpirit]

There appear to be some First cuts in West Yorkshire on the horizon. Looking at the registration details on BusTimes these could include the X84 between Otley and Ilkley and the 308 between Honley and Holmfirth. The West Yorkshire forum suggests some deeper cuts but they aren't on here (eg 539, 571 also the 615/6/9 network west of Bradford) and also the X98/99 expected to go to Transdev as noted on that thread. Too early to be sure though. There were lots of cuts mooted in Manchester that haven't yet seen the light of day.

I'd be suprised if Transdev aren't eyeing up the 173/174 too to further their way into Wakefield. As for the First West Yorkshire cuts, the services that are likely to be binned would be the short workings e.g. the 308 shorts between Huddersfield and Honley could be lost but the full length route retained. Unless First WY are looking at merging routes to try and make use of what they have already got.

 

[Ken H]

This crew shortage isn't a new thing.
This from 1950 Halifax corporation transport timetable. This is the text in the message:

DUE TO SERIOUS STAFF SHORTAGE IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO CANCEL CERTAIN SERVICES WITHOUT WARNING. THIS WILL APPLY PARTICULARLY ON SATURDAY EVENINGS

 

[Statto]

This crew shortage isn't a new thing.
This from 1950 Halifax corporation transport timetable. This is the text in the message:

Indeed, after an 11 week long strike at Liverpool Corporation in 1968, quite a few services remained suspended (some services ended up being withdrawn) until well after the PTE took over, because of staff shortage, as a lot of staff left during the strike.

Imo, operators are allowed to put up an emergency timetable, & should do so, put up a timetable for the services that they can operate, it's not good to have long gaps (sometimes 3 hour gap) in the timetable because of short notice cancellations, because their is not enough staff to operate the service, Stagecoach have done this on Merseyside, & most services go back to the normal timetable from next week, other operators should follow suit.

 

[Ken H]

Indeed, after an 11 week long strike at Liverpool Corporation in 1968, quite a few services remained suspended (some services ended up being withdrawn) until well after the PTE took over, because of staff shortage, as a lot of staff left during the strike.

Imo, operators are allowed to put up an emergency timetable, & should do so, put up a timetable for the services that they can operate, it's not good to have long gaps (sometimes 3 hour gap) in the timetable because of short notice cancellations, because their is not enough staff to operate the service, Stagecoach have done this on Merseyside, & most services go back to the normal timetable from next week, other operators should follow suit.

Trouble is available crew numbers is volatile. A burst of drivers testing positive for covid can decimate rotas. Difficult to plan.

 

[Statto]

Trouble is available crew numbers is volatile. A burst of drivers testing positive for covid can decimate rotas. Difficult to plan.

Fair point, but if operators know they're not going to operate a service in advance, they should publish a timetable for a service that they can operate, i'm not saying if drivers go down ill tomorrow or something, maybe if operator knows they're not getting drivers to operate the full service for at least a couple of weeks or more

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Fair point, but if operators know they're not going to operate a service in advance, they should publish a timetable for a service that they can operate, i'm not saying if drivers go down ill tomorrow or something, maybe if operator knows they're not getting drivers to operate the full service for at least a couple of weeks or more

Even when you do that, there's no guarantee that it comes through. Transdev are still losing journeys despite the revised timetables in Harrogate.

 

[RELL6L]

I'd be suprised if Transdev aren't eyeing up the 173/174 too to further their way into Wakefield. As for the First West Yorkshire cuts, the services that are likely to be binned would be the short workings e.g. the 308 shorts between Huddersfield and Honley could be lost but the full length route retained. Unless First WY are looking at merging routes to try and make use of what they have already got.

Arriva in Yorkshire also show cancellations for the 405 Selby to Doncaster and 408/409 Pontefract to Doncaster from 3 October, with a new service 51 covering the common areas between Norton and Doncaster (miles from any Arriva depot!). These would be significant losses if they were all withdrawn. The difficulty of course with funding these is that they cross the boundary between South and West Yorkshire where a lot of services have been cut as neither council wishes to subsidise - look how little crosses the boundary apart from the trunk route from Barnsley to Wakefield and some buses into Hemsworth from the south west - very little into Denby Dale or Holmfirth from the south and almost nothing from South Elmshall to Doncaster. So perhaps the future is bleak here...

 

[DaventryRabbit]

As of last Sunday Stagecoach Oxford Route 200 (Banbury to Brackley, every 30 mins inc eves and Sundays) has been cut by half and the Sunday Service withdrawn. No changes to Route so the smaller villages eg Middleton Cheney and Chacombe are still served.
Locals are furious about the lack of notice they were given. School Children are having 2 hours added on to their day and One Person sats he will now have to pay £25 for a Taxi each night as there are no longer any Buses home for him as he finishes Work at 7pm...

 

[ChrisC]

Arriva in Yorkshire also show cancellations for the 405 Selby to Doncaster and 408/409 Pontefract to Doncaster from 3 October, with a new service 51 covering the common areas between Norton and Doncaster (miles from any Arriva depot!). These would be significant losses if they were all withdrawn. The difficulty of course with funding these is that they cross the boundary between South and West Yorkshire where a lot of services have been cut as neither council wishes to subsidise - look how little crosses the boundary apart from the trunk route from Barnsley to Wakefield and some buses into Hemsworth from the south west - very little into Denby Dale or Holmfirth from the south and almost nothing from South Elmshall to Doncaster. So perhaps the future is bleak here...

Can the route from Barnsley to Wakefield really still be described as a ‘trunk route’? It was cut to just hourly earlier this year and there are no buses in the evening on the route.

 

[RT4038]

As of last Sunday Stagecoach Oxford Route 200 (Banbury to Brackley, every 30 mins inc eves and Sundays) has been cut by half and the Sunday Service withdrawn. No changes to Route so the smaller villages eg Middleton Cheney and Chacombe are still served.
Locals are furious about the lack of notice they were given. School Children are having 2 hours added on to their day and One Person sats he will now have to pay £25 for a Taxi each night as there are no longer any Buses home for him as he finishes Work at 7pm...

Perhaps the complainants should be getting on to their local councillors, as I don't believe either Northamponshire Unitary authorities, or Oxfordshire, subsidise much in the way of bus services......

 

[RELL6L]

As of last Sunday Stagecoach Oxford Route 200 (Banbury to Brackley, every 30 mins inc eves and Sundays) has been cut by half and the Sunday Service withdrawn. No changes to Route so the smaller villages eg Middleton Cheney and Chacombe are still served.
Locals are furious about the lack of notice they were given. School Children are having 2 hours added on to their day and One Person sats he will now have to pay £25 for a Taxi each night as there are no longer any Buses home for him as he finishes Work at 7pm...

That is poor, this (it is the 500 not the 200) used to be a very busy route. It is mainly double deckers now but the lack of an evening service to Brackley and any Sunday service will reduce its attractiveness still further.

Can the route from Barnsley to Wakefield really still be described as a ‘trunk route’? It was cut to just hourly earlier this year and there are no buses in the evening on the route.

Maybe not! It used to be...

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

As of last Sunday Stagecoach Oxford Route 200 (Banbury to Brackley, every 30 mins inc eves and Sundays) has been cut by half and the Sunday Service withdrawn. No changes to Route so the smaller villages eg Middleton Cheney and Chacombe are still served.
Locals are furious about the lack of notice they were given. School Children are having 2 hours added on to their day and One Person sats he will now have to pay £25 for a Taxi each night as there are no longer any Buses home for him as he finishes Work at 7pm...

Think you mean the 500 (the 200 is Banbury to Daventry). I can recall perhaps 6/7 years ago that it was a 20 min frequency; I used to work locally and stay in Brackley (pre Covid) and I was surprised that there was a commercial evening service, and I'm kinda surprised there's still one if only to Middleton Cheney.

Northampton won't pay for anything other than with section 106 funding. Oxfordshire are only marginally better. Arguably Banbury depots' best route.

 

[ElBoiii]

Personally that X10 should be replaced with an extended X17 (currently Matlock to Barnsley), as the current X10 is nothing more of a shell of its former self.

The X17 is long enough already (requiring a changeover in Sheffield or Chesterfield to use the full route). Maybe bring back the X32 or whatever it was called from Sheffield to Leeds?

 

[43055]

Thanks, yes there were a couple of errors. Thanks to great work by @Typhoon this list is now in alphabetical order of operator:

Operator & route	Between	Outcome	Funded
Arriva Kent 155	Chatham to Maidstone, hourly through service	Still runs Chatham to Borstal, rest cut back to school journeys, very occasional shopper bus
Arriva Kent 308	Gravesend to Sevenoaks, every 90 minutes	Reprieved, operated by Redroute to same times	Kent
Arriva Midlands North 544/546	Shrewsbury to Little Lythe / Pulverbatch, combined hourly	Temporary reprieve, unchanged	Shropshire
Arriva Midlands North 738/740	Knighton to Ludlow, 4 times a day	Reprieved temporarily	Shropshire
Arriva Midlands North 9	Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth, hourly	Temporary reprieve, unchanged	Shropshire
Arriva North East 86	Bishop Auckland to Toft Hill, hourly	Replaced by Rural Link 87	Durham
Carousel 103	Amersham to Rickmansworth, hourly	Partly replaced by Arriva 335/336, four journeys to Amersham	Bucks, Herts?
Carousel 103 (again)	Beaconsfield to Amersham, hourly	Withdrawn, diverted instead from Beaconsfield to Slough
Carousel 40	High Wycombe to Thame, hourly	Being continued by Red Rose, mainly commercial
Centrebus 19	Melton Mowbray to Nottingham, two hourly	Withdrawn
Centrebus 9	Stamford to Oakham	Replacement Rutland minibus R9, reduced	Rutland
Centrebus RF1	Melton Mowbray to Corby, hourly	Replacement from Blands R1, reduced to 7/8 journeys	Rutland
Diamond 15	Tamworth to Hurley, hourly	Reprieved, renumbered 76B	Partnership with Warwickshire
Diamond 247	Redditch to Evesham via Alcester, hourly	Reprieved, reduced frequency and different route Redditch-Studley	Partnership with Worcestershire
Diamond 35	Walsall to Lichfield, hourly	Withdrawn
Diamond 52	Redditch to Kidderminster, hourly	Reprieved	Partnership with Worcestershire
Diamond X20	Solihull to Stratford, hourly	Replaced by Stagecoach X20, hourly	Warwickshire
East Yorkshire 45	Market Weighton to Driffield, two hourly	Token service, mostly withdrawn, through links to day trip in Bridlington lost.	E Yorkshire
East Yorkshire 55	Elloughton to Gilberdyke, hourly	Retained off peak, all peak service to Hull withdrawn	E Yorkshire
First Potteries Kingfisher (32)	Hanley to Uttoxeter, hourly	Being replaced by D & G Buses
First West of England 126	Wells to Weston Super Mare, hourly	Proposed to withdraw
First West of England 173	Bath to Wells, hourly	Proposal to withdraw reversed by First
First West of England X2	Bristol to Yatton, hourly	Proposed to withdraw
First West of England X5	Bristol to Weston via Portishead & Clevedon, hourly	Temporary reprieve announced between Portishead and Worle
First Worcester 144	Bromsgrove to Longbridge (& Birmingham), hourly	Temporary NXWM service 144a Bromsgrove to Longbridge every 70 minutes	Worcestershire
Go Cornwall	Some other more obscure services introduced in 2020 have been withdrawn	Most were probably never going to be sustainable.
Go Cornwall 11	Liskeard to Bodmin Parkway, hourly	Reprieved, mostly hourly, temporary. Now back to hourly throughout (Sep 22)
Go Cornwall 46,47	Village routes between Redruth & Truro, hourly	Withdrawn, some local replacements
Go Cornwall 74	Liskeard to Callington	Very substantially reduced between Liskeard and Pensilva except school times
Go Cornwall 76	Launceston to Bodmin	Withdrawn, was experimental, probably never a good idea.
Go North East 25	Chester-le-Street to Langley Park, 30 mins	Replaced by Weardale 725, hourly	Durham
Go North East 30 & 31	Stanley to Quaking Houses 2bph, East Stanley 1bph	Replaced by J H Travel, same times	Durham
High Peak Transpeak	Derby to Matlock, hourly	Reprieved, continues unchanged	Derbyshire
Hulley X57	Snake Pass, Ladybower to Glossop, two hourly	Withdrawn. Maybe a special case as introduction was so recent.
Kinch 2	Loughborough to Leicester via Sileby, hourly	Reduced to Loughborough to Sileby only, approx every 80 minutes
Metroline 84	Barnet to St Albans via Potters Bar, 30 minutes	Reprieved between Potters Bar and St Albans by Sullivan, withdrawn Potters Bar to Barnet	Hertfordshire
Stagecoach Cumbria 93/A	Carlisle to Bowness on Solway, 5 journeys	Reprieved	Carlisle and Allerdale councils
Stagecoach Devon 1	Tiverton to Cullompton via Uffculme, hourly	Replaced by Stagecoach & Dartline funded service 373	Devon
Stagecoach Devon 4	Cranbrook to Honiton half hourly, Axminster hourly	Replaced by Stagecoach funded services 44/44A, reduced frequency	Devon
Stagecoach Devon 9A	Seaton to Lyme Regis, hourly	Partly replaced by Axe Valley Mini Travel service 378, 2-5 journeys per day	Devon
Stagecoach East 41	Bedford to Northampton, currently 90 minutes	Still running every 90 minutes
Stagecoach Manchester	Many other routes	More info to follow, but high likelihood of replacement by TfGM
Stagecoach Manchester 237	Ashton under Lyne to Glossop, every 20 mins	Only just announced – from October, may not be the full picture
Stagecoach Manchester 358	Stockport to Marple, New Mills, Hayfield, hourly	Only just announced – from October, may not be the full picture
Stagecoach N Lancs 80,81	Lancaster to Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton, hourly combined	Reprieved within Lancashire by K Lonsdale Coach Hire in different format, token replacement in Yorkshire	Lancashire
Stagecoach Oxford 200	Banbury to Daventry hourly	Reprieved temporarily, extended to Jan 2023	Oxfordshire & Northamptonshire
Stagecoach South / Reading 7	Aldershot to Reading, hourly, connecting at Hartley Wintney	Withdrawn. Some remains Aldershot to Fleet and Hartley Wintney, Reading Buses have covered Reading to Riseley, both much reduced
Stagecoach South East 11	Canterbury to Westwood, 5 journeys	School and one off-peak journey reprieved, to be confirmed	Kent?
Stagecoach South East 7	Canterbury to Herne Bay via Hoath, hourly	Withdrawn between Canterbury and Hillborough (Herne Bay)
Stagecoach South East 33	Margate to Ramsgate via Kingsgate	Withdrawn as of 29/08/2022
Stagecoach South East 37	Margate to Broadstairs via Westwood	Withdrawn as of 29/08/2022
Stagecoach South West 92	Totnes to Dartmouth, roughly two hourly	Reprieved, similar timetable	Devon
Stagecoach West 32,132	Newent to Ross & Ledbury, each two hourly	Withdrawn except school journeys to Ross. Gloucester to Newent remains
Stagecoach West Scotland 101/101A/102	Edinburgh to Biggar, hourly, 4 journeys to Moffat and Dumfries, tendered	Reprieved until March 2023	Scottish Borders?
Stagecoach West Scotland X34/36	Glasgow to Ardrossan, hourly	X36 temporary reprieve, hourly Glasgow to Dalry, 2 peak journeys Ardrossan	SPT / Scottish government?
Stagecoach Yorkshire 53	Mansfield to Sheffield via Clowne, 6 journeys	Reprieved
Travel Wright	All services ceased, not sure if anything was commercial or substantive.	Some been taken over. 367 Newark to Collingham and beyond remains, Gem Mini Travel. Some lost?
Trent Barton 141	Nottingham to Hucknall, Mansfield, Sutton via villages, hourly	Reprieved by Nottinghamshire for a year, Stagecoach running	Nottinghamshire

Not sure if these are worth adding to the list for Midland Classic going off this PDF:

https://www.midlandclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Revised-services-5.9.22.pdf?fbclid=IwAR37GDbYiBdYBahSC8QaSPlrv1-uVV5VLZbNXEvMrO6Vv9JK9AEEidWF4AE

9 - Burton - East Midlands Airport believe the Ashby Airport section would of gone. Retained no changes with support from Derbyshire country council.
401 - Burton - Uttoxeter - Retained with minor changes with support from Derbyshire & Staffordshire country council's.