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First cut another two major routes in Southampton this Sunday: the 12, which is immediately taken over by competitor Bluestar as an extension to their route 7, and the City Red 2 is chopped in half, surrendering the eastern half (city centre to Thornhill) to Bluestar 18 which First had been...

Two websites you might find useful: Great British Bus Routes.com - does what it says on the time Southampton Bus Update - info on all bus services in Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Winchester and Salisbury.

I'm afraid there is no ticket that is fully valid on both services. As you said, Solent Go is valid on both companies, but isn't valid on the full route of the 64, only for local journeys within Winchester. I was going to suggest the Discovery ticket, but Xelabus no longer issue or accept it...

The Stagecoach Coastliner 700 from Portsmouth to Brighton, described in great detail here, passes near to the following branches of Iceland: Central Portsmouth North End Havant Chichester Bognor Regis Littlehampton Rustington West Worthing Worthing Portslade The Hove and...

One website claimed that First had chosen to exit Southampton by selling to the local independent operator. Alas it wasn't true. First Bristol announced the launch of a triple-decker bus. Any other bus related April fools jokes?

Looks like they'll still be accepting the TfGM Wayfarer which is valid from Manchester as far as Crich on the TP.

You should be OK on those routes. Stagecoach's Discovery page doesn't rule out any particular routes. The same info is provided by the South Downs National Park, who sponsor the ticket, and Surrey County Council. In the list of excluded services, they do mention the Winchester Park & Ride...

I need to travel from Bristol Temple Meads to Shenfield tomorrow and will be using the super off-peak return: here On the return journey however, I might want to come back to Bristol Parkway instead of Temple Meads. The same price is in force when I search from Parkway, but would I be able to...

There's a full report on this at Southampton Bus Update. They ran only one commercial route, the A between Southampton and Hedge End. In addition to that, they ran some tendered routes for Southampton City Council, which Go Ahead's Bluestar are taking over at very short notice from...

I've travelled by train on the continent quite a bit. On the high speed ICE International service between Amsterdam and Frankfurt for example, the announcements are made in three languages: Dutch, German and English. I understand English and German and can usually understand enough of the Dutch...

I've booked some tickets on Northern Rail's website and selected to collect them from Manchester Piccadilly. The journey's not for a few weeks but I forgot to collect them yesterday and won't be back in Manchester for a while. Does anyone know if I might be able to collect them from from the...

The Bugle is reporting that Gwynedd have issued a press release about Padarn. Some routes will be retendered very soon, but others that are already covered by other operators won't.

Mushrooms found growing on First bus in service in Cornwall. First are trying to improve in some areas, with some success, but when things like this happen, it undoes all that good work.

I run both British Bus Bugle and Southampton Bus Update as well as a couple of others. Sorry to hear you're having trouble posting comments. It might be down to your cookie settings. An alternative would be to submit comments by e-mail to the address on those blogs. If you make it clear to...

I'm glad that you're enjoying British Bus Bugle. I run it single handedly, so had to make a decision about what I could cover well given the time constraints and unfortunately that has meant I've been unable to do some of the longer in-depth features that Omnibuses did so well. I am running a...