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Changes to the original plans on the Witchway and Burnley to Skipton. Witchway is cut to be Manchester to Burnley only as previously advised, but the timetable slightly changed. But the Witchway north of Burnley will continue via the present route - not via Earby. And the M5 will be retained -...

Lynx - both the company (Norfolk) and services (Bristol). And the bus type! Yorkshire Tiger Swallow Buses (around Waltham Abbey)

Do we know if the tenders are gross cost or net cost? If gross cost then PCB just run the buses and Cornwall can presumably set whatever fares they like on them, but perhaps not if it is grossly subsidised in competition with commercial routes. And it would be daft for evening services to be...

The Falmouth routes to be operated by OTS from 29 March are now on Traveline. Interesting that they have a 35 hourly to Helford Passage competing with and at the same times as First's 35. They also have journeys through to Helston as abandoned by First. The 69 to Mylor Bridge and Flushing is...

I agree there is a caveat that GCB get properly resourced as regards people and vehicles and that must be quite a challenge. But imagine the scenario that, having been asked to prepare for a particular portfolio of work and resourced that with vehicles and manpower, First Kernow register a lot...

So what is the endgame here? First Kernow run buses back from Truro College to provide an hourly inter-peak service on the Lizard. This will carry a lot of fresh air but undermines the GCB route at least in part as either GCB or the council (which is it?) are deprived of the fare revenue they...

OK I hadn’t realised the 93 was tendered. So has a tendered 93 been awarded to GCB that is missing from Traveline then?

I've only just appreciated this. I cannot believe that St Columb Major is to be deprived of its 93 service by First - to allow a more frequent service on the slightly quicker 91 - leaving the town with only the 95 as a regular service two hourly to Truro and Wadebridge. Nothing to Newquay. If...

I bet it has! They do a good job at Traveline putting complicated things together and, while it isn't perfect, its a vital way to present information now councils do so little. I expect they have been busy and will be for a while yet in Cornwall!

I don't know how the rules work but IMHO it wouldn't be right if the subsidy was withdrawn from GCB's Helston-Lizard service on the basis of what First have registered (as currently shown on Traveline). Their L1 is almost all a daytime only service. On schooldays the first bus leaves Lizard at...

That makes sense. I partially withdraw my positive comment about the Traveline timetable here. I have now seen - not realised this before - that the 10 is extended from Wadebridge to Bodmin and Bodmin Parkway and fits in nicely between the 11s basically giving a half hourly service from...

Looking on Traveline today some of the timetables have been updated, but nothing seems to have actually been removed, all the duplications remain. The times for the Go Cornwall 10 and 95 have been consolidated from up to four different sections into one for each route, as often this is not...

Is it too much to hope they might keep some of the existing WW 'deckers for the Burnley to Skipton service? They don't say what this service is going to be called (or numbered), its not the Witch Way and it doesn't appear to be M5 either. Shame that this is being done, halving the buses to...

I wasn't suggesting there was anything improper or untoward. Just that I do not believe the potential traffic can possibly justify three buses every two hours during the day instead of one!

Is the Skipton end of the Witch Way that badly performing? It seems a trunk route from Burnley to Skipton, not covered by a rail alternative, Barnoldswick ought to provide good demand and the X43 is much quicker than the M5. I am pretty sure that not long ago this corridor was even more frequent...

I think this is very sad about the 29. I rode this only last month and reported in this thread many pages ago. My 29 was full and standing - but only between Glastonbury and Street, due to a dearth of 376s. But it had a few passengers across the Somerset levels and several more between Creech...

I’ve just had a chance to look briefly through the Traveline timetables for Go Cornwall and First Kernow from 29 March. There’s a lot to digest. I know there might be changes but I feel rather as though I have moved from the rest of the UK’s cuts, cuts, cuts to a parallel universe where money is...

The 6A from Bude is only a positioning journey for all practical purposes, starting in 'genuine' mode at Launceston. I don't know whether this is commercial or tendered or, if tendered, whether it is Cornwall or Devon. I can't see Go Cornwall running one journey from Launceston to Okehampton and...

An aggressive and interesting timetable planned for the Excel! Some places being cut from 30 minutes to 60 minute frequency, four variations - plus variations on the variations in that some of the "A"s stop for fish and chips in Thorney and some don't. Buses leave Peterborough, Kings Lynn and...

I wasn't suggesting that the Bude/ Stratton outstation would be at risk from the Cornwall tenders. I think Bude puts out 5 vehicles on the 6/6A, 2 on the 71/85, 2 on the 319 and 2 on the 128 & 219. The two on the 128 & 219 might be at risk, I assume these are Cornwall tenders, and the 319 which...