Bus Service Changes (anywhere in the UK)

[tbtc]

One thing I've never found online is a national collection of bus service changes. There are dozens of places to go for "local" information, but I've never seen one source that covers changes all over the country.

Dunno if this will work, but (as somewhere to start) here are the changes for Stagecoach services in/around Sheffield on 30 October 2011. Feel free to join in

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http://www.stagecoachbus.com/serviceupdatedetails.aspx?Id=3674

Service 25 Bradway – City centre – Woodhouse

There are minor timetable changes in the Woodhouse area.

Services 43 / 43A Chesterfield – Dronfield – Sheffield

Service 43 will see timetable changes throughout the day. These are designed to improve punctuality.
New route 43A will be introduced to provide journeys at peak times up to every 30 minutes between Dronfield and Sheffield and replaces withdrawn service 293. Off peak Monday to Friday it will operate every 60 minutes. Together with service 43 buses will run up to every 15 minutes at peak times Monday to Friday, and 3 journeys an hour off peak Monday to Friday between Sheffield and Dronfield.
The 43A will operate from Hallowes to Sheffield via Hilltop, Coniston Road, Leabrook Road, Longcroft Road, Stubley Hollow and then match the 43 route from Sheffield FC to Sheffield city centre via Meadowhead and Woodseats.
As a result of low usage on the current 293 service, particularly on Saturdays, service 43A will only operate on Mondays to Fridays.
An additional early morning journey on Mondays to Fridays will depart Sheffield for Dronfield at 0525 on route 43.

Services 44 / 44A Chesterfield – Dronfield – Sheffield

There are timetable changes throughout the day to improve punctuality.
A new Sunday service will be introduced on route 44 running every 60 minutes between Dronfield and Sheffield.

Services 50 / 50A Chesterfield – Eckington – Sheffield

The route will be altered with services 50 and 50A operating between Chesterfield, Eckington and Sheffield only. The link to Holymoorside will be covered by new route 84 throughout the daytime, evenings and on Sundays.
During the evening and on Sundays there are timetable and route changes. At these times an hourly bus will run on route 50 from Chesterfield to Sheffield matching the daytime route. The link to Halfway tram terminus is therefore withdrawn, but customers may now travel directly by bus to Sheffield.
An additional journey every hour during the daytime on Sundays is retained between Chesterfield and New Whittington.

Service 52 Woodhouse – City Centre – Hillsborough

This route will form part of the next phase of the Sheffield Voluntary Partnership Agreement – Optio Red.
Service 52 will be jointly operated by Stagecoach in Sheffield and First South Yorkshire with tickets available that can be bought and used on any bus.
There will be a minor route change for Stagecoach journeys with buses running from Hillsborough to Crookes via Heavygate Avenue instead of Heavygate Road. There is no change of route for journeys towards Hillsborough.
There are significant timetable improvements in order to provide a combined 4 minute Monday to Friday daytime frequency between Hillsborough, Sheffield City Centre and Handsworth. An 8 minute frequency will be provided by each operator along the current routes beyond Handsworth to Woodhouse, with Stagecoach buses continuing to serve Woodhouse village centre.
The combined frequency at other times is as follows: Saturday daytime – every 5 minutes, Sunday daytime – every 10 minutes, evenings – every 15 minutes.
On Friday and Saturday nights Stagecoach will operate a new Night Bus service – N52 – across the daytime route every 30 minutes between midnight and about 0400, with last buses from the city centre at 0400 to Hillsborough and 0445 to Woodhouse. Special fares will apply with day and weekly tickets not valid for travel.

Service 87 High Green – City centre – Lowedges

A Sunday service will commence on this route. Buses will run every 30 minutes during Sunday daytimes throughout the route.
As a result, Service 88A will no longer operate between Chapeltown and High Green on Sundays.

Services 88 / 88A Ecclesfield – City centre – Bents Green

On Sundays, all buses will now operate between Chapeltown, Ecclesfield, City centre and Bents Green every 30 minutes. The link between High Green and Chapeltown will still be operated, but by new journeys on route 87 which has been introduced on a Sunday for the first time.
There are no changes on Mondays to Saturdays.

Service 120 Halfway – City – Fulwood

On Saturday mornings the 0445 from Halfway will run earlier and depart at 0437 in order to provide better connections with trains from Sheffield station.

Service 215 Sheffield – Bakewell

The evening journeys operated on service 240 under contract to Derbyshire County Council will be renumbered 215. There are no changes to the timetable or route.

Service 293 Dronfield – Sheffield

This service will be withdrawn due to low usage. New route 43A will provide alternative buses between Dronfield and Sheffield, via Woodseats.

Stocksbridge Supertram Link

A number of new journeys will be introduced on Mondays to Saturdays between 1900 and 2030.
On Mondays to Fridays, there will be extra journeys from Middlewood at 1921, 1938, 2005 and 2025 providing later connections with Supertram.
On Saturdays, there will be an extra bus from Middlewood at 1921. In addition, departures from Middlewood at 1822 and 1903 will extend from Deepcar, back to Middlewood to provide later connections for people heading into Sheffield.

 

[mbonwick]

Depends what you're after.
If you want specific details of changes (like above), then operator or local authority sites are the ones to search.

If you just want to be aware that there will be alterations/cancellations/new service, and aren't bothered about detail, then a VOSA search is useful.

 

[tbtc]

Depends what you're after.
If you want specific details of changes (like above), then operator or local authority sites are the ones to search.

If you just want to be aware that there will be alterations/cancellations/new service, and aren't bothered about detail, then a VOSA search is useful.

I was just thinking about one big source of all this kind of news, with actual information on what has changed (rather than the "revised route and timetable" kind of stuff you get on VOSA, which doesn't really explain *what* has been revised).

Instead of scouring dozens/ hundreds of websites, we could collate local information into one "national" thread?

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Not a bad idea to have a set of links to the most relevant sites.
Will throw in my fourpence ha'penny worth -

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/ LONDON

http://www.intalink.org.uk/ HERTFORDHSIRE

http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/ MERSEYSIDE

http://tfgm.com/ GREATER MANCHESTER

http://www.centro.org.uk/ WEST MIDLANDS

http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/public-transport OXFORDSHIRE

Could be useful to have a catalogue of county and then operator sites as a reference.
The problem is how it varies (the Herts site is prety good but some others are sadly lacking or just have links to operators sites - Kent is now pretty poor in finding certain of the smaller operators timetables).

 

[Harlesden]

Well, as of today, Willesden Junction Station has lost two bus routes which formerly terminated there. The 224 has been re-routed at Harlesden, and the PR2 has been withdrawn completely.

 

[SS4]

http://www.networkwestmidlands.com/ServiceAlterations/alterations.aspx is better for the West Midlands. I would consider a catalogue of links to be a better idea due to the trouble in maintaining a list

 

[harz99]

I was just thinking about one big source of all this kind of news, with actual information on what has changed (rather than the "revised route and timetable" kind of stuff you get on VOSA, which doesn't really explain *what* has been revised).

Instead of scouring dozens/ hundreds of websites, we could collate local information into one "national" thread?

I like the thinking but maintaining such a source will be very difficult with the number of changes to bus services nationally every year.

Probably the best way is still to use the Traveline website and then the quoted operator of the service(s) given and the County/Borough etc. Council websites for any further gen.

 

[Ivo]

I would consider a catalogue of links to be a better idea due to the trouble in maintaining a list

As much as I like the idea of creating a whole list of changes - and I did check the First sites for both Bristol and Essex for information, but none is forthcoming - I have to agree with SS4. There must be 25,000 different routes in England alone; imagine even 10% of them changed on one day. This thread would grow faster than the IEP Debate thread back in March...

Still, if a really important thing happened, say for example the X5 from Oxford to Cambridge was increased in frequency to run every 15 minutes, the Edinburgh 100 was withdrawn or Boris decided to merge the 9H and 15H into one, then I would encourage giving details...

Also, traveline is largely useless. Why call an 0870 number or use horribly difficult to navigate websites (the SW one isn't so bad though, at least it looks attractive on the front page!) when we have a plethora of experts among ourselves? Not sure Mojo would be overly pleased with his website becoming a source of help for bus enquiries though...

 

[Blindtraveler]

QUOTE=Ivo;830685]As much as I like the idea of creating a whole list of changes - and I did check the First sites for both Bristol and Essex for i
nformation, but none is forthcoming - I have to agree with SS4. There must be 25,000 different routes in England alone; imagine even 10% of them changed on one day. This thread would grow faster than the IEP Debate thread back in March...

Still, if a really important thing happened, say for example the X5 from Oxford to Cambridge was increased in frequency to run every 15 minutes, the Edinburgh 100 was withdrawn or Boris decided to merge the 9H and 15H into one, then I would encourage giving details...

Also, traveline is largely useless. Why call an 0870 number or use horribly difficult to navigate websites (the SW one isn't so bad though, at least it looks attractive on the front page!) when we have a plethora of experts among ourselves? Not sure Mojo would be overly pleased with his website becoming a source of help for bus enquiries though...[/QUOTE]



maybe somebody should ask him?

i think its a great idea as long as the date is put at the start of the info your posting. Il certaioly post anything of interest.

Wonder if we can get this as long as the Stagecoach northwest thread, i.e, over 1000 pages? Between it and guess the station thats a lotta posts!

 

[tbtc]

I like the thinking but maintaining such a source will be very difficult with the number of changes to bus services nationally every year

Maybe just stick to the "headline" stuff from bigger operators, dunno.

For example, South Yorkshire only has four big changes a year (plus a small change in September), West Yorkshire services tend to only change on six dates a year - bringing both closer in line with the railway idea. so it'd be fairly easy to list what is changing (or at least give a link to the PTE websites that explain things)

 

[mancnq]

All the national changes in one place might be a bit awkward to navigate. Each region ought to have a comprehensive local site with details of all services though.

Southampton has one that covers all bus companies in the area: Southampton Bus Update

 

[Ivo]

Essex CC's example

 

[First class]

VOSA has the complete list of alterations/cancellations on the site.

http://www.tan.gov.uk/tanen/VOSA_SelfServiceOpBusRegSearch_New.asp

 

[anthony263]

VOSA has the complete list of alterations/cancellations on the site.

http://www.tan.gov.uk/tanen/VOSA_SelfServiceOpBusRegSearch_New.asp

I have found that site to be very arkward to use at times.

 

[Deerfold]

West Yorkshire publish changes in a booklet linked from here:

http://www.wymetro.com/travelnews/ServiceChanges/buschanges.htm

Sometimes the link will not work if there's no changes in the near future but it usually returns.

I'm happy about my changes - I'm getting 2 more (commercial) buses past my house from the end of the month on Mainline 25 out of Keighley - and both nicely timed for if I miss the xx25 services having got the train due in at xx21. I just hope I'm not the only one using them or no doubt they'll disappear.

 

[anthony263]

I have found traveline to be terrible to use and the fact that it is diffcult to understand the timetables, which must be very bad as i can normally read and understand timetables easily unlike a lot of people.

 

[SS4]

I have found traveline to be terrible to use and the fact that it is diffcult to understand the timetables, which must be very bad as i can normally read and understand timetables easily unlike a lot of people.

Agreed, I always use transportdirect.info

 

[Mojo]

Changes to local and cross-border stage carriage services in the City of Bristol are on the TravelBristol website:

http://www.travelbristol.org/content/changes-bus-services

Main changes recently are to the network of orbital routes in Bristol City and South Gloucestershire, the revised network map is here: http://www.travelbristol.org/sites/default/files/City Routes Radial.pdf

I like Traveline as it tells you every single stop that services call at, not just the major stops and timing points.

 

[shinkansen1966]

I like Traveline as it tells you every single stop that services call at, not just the major stops and timing points.

This is why I use Traveline, too. Scarcely use transportdirect.

Plus...

I've recently updated my iPhone to the new iOS5 software. Besides all the useful new features like iMessaging and notification bar, for someone with a car like me, Google maps now has built-in bus times taken from the Traveline which actually works.