Tuesday 31st March 2026 As we march into April, here's the usual round up of this month's unblogged miscellany and we begin with some.... …Great news from Arriva Arriva has announced it's launching a brand new website and app "with improved functionality and exciting new features". At last, the baffling and nonsensical timetable presentations I've... Continue Reading →
Sunday 29th March 2026 I left you in yesterday’s Part 1 arriving in Wick at 11:24 on Wednesday morning following a three hour, three minute coach journey with ember from Inverness costing £2, after journeying up to Inverness from Hassocks on Tuesday taking four hours and 32 minutes with Thameslink, easyJet and ScotRail costing £51.49... Continue Reading →
Saturday 28th March 2026 This week saw Transport Scotland begin its twelve month £2 fare cap 'pilot' for all bus journeys across the Highlands (as well as Moray, Argyll and Bute). It follows the launch of the same £2 cap in the Shetland Isles on 30th January, in the Western Isles from 23rd February and... Continue Reading →
Thursday 26th March 2026 We're nearly at the terminus for this series and heading towards the final stretch of track brings us to North West England and a look at two very different places which both offer passengers a choice of two stations on two different lines. Burscough is a village in Lancashire and Marple... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 24th March 2026 Another example of Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) funding being put to good use by kick starting long lost bus links commenced in Shropshire at the beginning of the year. New route 340, operated by D&G Bus, now links Whitchurch and Market Drayton with Wellington in Telford & Wrekin. Both Whitchurch... Continue Reading →
Saturday 21st March 2026 (*What started off as a fortnightly series looking at all Britain’s 23 bus routes numbered 99 was soon corrected to 24 such routes when a reader kindly pointed out my summary of what was to come had missed Arriva’s 99A/C in Telford and in another update we’re now up to 25... Continue Reading →
Thursday 19th March 2026 At a meeting of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority's Transport Committee in January, a recommendation was made to the Combined Authority Board to approve the withdrawal of five funded bus routes (13B, 19A, 65, 117 and 129). In the grand scheme of things they're fairly minor league routes and indeed the... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 17th March 2026 CCB31, Cuckmere Buses' latest vehicle in the fleet wearing a special gold 50th Anniversary livery. (Photo courtesy Philip Ayers/Cuckmere Buses) 2026 is a very special year for Cuckmere Buses. The long standing East Sussex community bus operator, based in the village of Berwick, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. That's an incredible... Continue Reading →
Saturday 14th March 2026 And no, it's not TfL's circular routes R5 and R10 in Orpington (each running every two and a half hours) nor is it the twice a week route 969 between Whitton and Roehampton Vale. It's the once a week, one return journey, route R17 that runs between Carpenders Park and Hatch... Continue Reading →
Thursday 12th March 2026 When I last wrote about First & Last Mile (FLM) in May 2022 the then fledgling Oxfordshire Community bus operator hadn't long been running but readers may recall I came away from travelling on its two new routes impressed with the number of passengers it had already built up from restoring... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 10th March 2026 I'm pretty sure this route 99 will be one of the least used to be featured in this year's fortnightly series looking at all Britain's 25 bus services bearing that route number. And it's not as though it's a rural bus route either. More the case the original reason for its... Continue Reading →
Sunday 8th March 2026 Unsurprisingly my take on the strange goings on experienced as a passenger in Chelmsford on Friday drew a record number of comments to yesterday's blog and in case readers don't have the time to read through them all, here's one from someone who contacted me with extensive knowledge of the background,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 7th March 2026 You’d think a local authority receiving welcome news from a reputable bus company, with a track record of delivering quality bus services, it intended to run a tendered bus route on a commercial basis would bite their hand off and be hugely grateful for a consequential potential saving to the public... Continue Reading →
Thursday 5th March 2026 Regular readers may recall my write up of the autonomous bus trial in West Cambridge last summer as well as an abortive journey to travel on the second route introduced in south Cambridge just before Christmas when the bus was running in manual mode. It's been a patient couple of months... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 3rd March 2026 The competitive knock about between bus companies in the Home Counties ratcheted up another notch yesterday when First Bus launched a swipe against Carousel in the shape of two new express routes linking Uxbridge with High Wycombe and Slough. The first runs direct between Uxbridge and High Wycombe via the M40... Continue Reading →
Sunday 1st March 2026 It comes to something when passengers wanting a bus timetable book showing all the bus routes operating across a county have to turn to the Omnibus Society to find out what runs when and where in a printed format. But that's exactly what's happened in Powys where the South Wales and... Continue Reading →
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