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Yes, we’ve received two copies of the leaflet for the 850. It shows what a good service it is. However the timetable shows a few reductions at shoulder time. The second bus into Wycombe has gone and the half hourly service now starts at 4.30 instead of 5.30. I hope that Carousel make sure that...

Another interesting report, thank you. I agree with much of what you say. Avoid Peterlee, although I don't mind Hartlepool and Sedgefield is very attractive. I also made a point of taking the Easington Village option when I took a bus from Peterlee to Sunderland. I didn't alight when I went...

That’s really helpful. Hopefully more information and timetables will become available in advance of the change dates. Thank you for providing so much good information beyond your own operations.

Apologies for being out of date on Leighton Buzzard, I knew the town services had gone but the other timetables suggest workings from there. There must be a lot of dead mileage at the start and end of the day for the X4/X6 and the X2/X3 from their respective depots. I would have thought it would...

That makes sense. Sue one of the small operators - or DGC's in-house organisation - for £10m and they just go under. Sue Stagecoach and they might have to find £10m. The risk here would be out of all proportion to the benefit of being in business in the county - I don't blame Stagecoach for...

There are timetables now available for at least some of the revised services. It appears that the Leighton Buzzard outstation is used for much of the X2 and X3 plus the truncated X4. The X4 will only run between LB and Aylesbury and at first glance is two buses shuttling back and forth. But...

Yes but that doesn’t cover New Cumnock towards Sanquhar. BusTimes shows Stagecoach still running a single return trip on the 246 from Cumnock to Sanquhar and back starting out at 17.15, the only part of the service formerly run from the northern end. Yesterday this was a BZL, presumably the only...

These are terrible, especially anything which connects the area with the rest of the world! 246 beyond Kirkconnel, only as far as New Cumnock, reduced to 4 a day with no helpful connections to Cumnock, Sanquhar badly affected but at least it has a station 359 to Girvan much reduced 520 to...

Do we know anything about the new X77 into Shrewsbury and the remainder of the T12 east of Newtown - the latter was proposed to be increased to hourly but dependent on Welsh government funding?

Another interesting report from a decent trip round Norfolk. I haven't done the 7 from Norwich via Caister, nor the open-topper, but I've done most of the rest of your trip. Wymondham is attractive but confusing to find your way around the one-way systems and bus routes. I too had an Optare...

So there are new timetables available on Stagecoach's website across the region. Some odd anomalies around Plymouth. The 80, previously Gold, is now improved to run on a 30-minute clockface frequency during the day, although there are some much longer gaps in peak hours, eg Paignton departures...

No the 61 isn’t Bee Network but it will only be £3, it is very scenic. The 394 between Marple and Glossop is better than the 237. Afraid I don’t know on your last question.

The 356 between Oldham and Delph or Uppermill via Denshaw is excellent. Only small buses but great scenery around Denshaw. Agreed on 350 and 184 but 184 goes further out of the city. As a round trip into Derbyshire 237 from Ashton or Stalybridge to Glossop, 61 to Hayfield or New Mills then 358...

Interesting reports on here. @820KDV had a well planned and executed day in Wiltshire with some lesser known routes and workings. The rise of Faresaver over the years from an operator of anonymous white buses to a decent modern fleet and covering a wide area quite comprehensively is a real model...

Some interesting and positive ideas. The Anthorn route is the 93 better known as going to Bowness on Solway. The am peak hour journey was withdrawn not long ago, there is still a pm peak journey. This would be good but it is hard to make much of it for leisure travel. It would be great to see...

I saw that. Never got a chance to travel that one, very sad. The route description still says Dalmellington but no journeys go there. Some other routes look quite severely reduced and some are not yet available.

It has been reported on Roger French’s blog that Cumbria Classic Coaches is to close at the end of September. Very sad - it will almost certainly mean the loss of the wonderful (and quirky) Wednesday only route 572 across the Pennines from Kirkby Stephen to Barnard Castle. The 106 between Kendal...

I remember the 159 and it was a shame when it was withdrawn. Arrivals at Coalville may well have just been from Ibstock but you would expect there to have been some demand from Market Bosworth to Hinckley, it is a lot nearer than Leicester. If it is for school times at Hinckley then great...

What is the point of this service? The 159 was withdrawn a few years ago so any custom will have long since disappeared. The route will be effectively all new connecting places with nothing much in common. In the same area other routes are being withdrawn, eg the 7 between Atherstone and Measham...

I welcome the new services and applaud the way Carousel have built up their network. The improvements in reliability have undoubtedly brought back some passengers who had deserted Arriva. It isn’t entirely clear with these changes what is commercial and what is provided by BSIP funds. Great to...