STAY AT HOME! They are saying, while singing Happy Birthday with your Hands, Face and Space.
If you must go out between Christmas and the New Year, then it is a mixed bag of services depending on where you are across Hampshire & Dorset. It should be pointed out that none of the companies are advising of service changes based on the hastily revised Tier announcements, so anything that was announced in the weeks approaching Christmas still applies.
Bank Holiday: Monday 28th December
All operators are running a Sunday service across the network. This means that any services that do not run on a Sunday are not running today.
Tuesday & Wednesday
We have a range of Saturday and Weekday timetables across services.
At First Hampshire & Dorset there is a Saturday service across almost all of the region. The only exceptions to that are that services that will run a weekday timetable:
- Service 27 between Havant and Rowlands Castle
- Service 28 and 28A between Fareham, Segensworth and Whiteley
- Service F3 between Fareham and Portchester – running on Wednesday
- Service 6 and 6a in Yeovil
At Stagecoach South the timetables will match those that were running during the Christmas week. It will largely be a Saturday service, most of the exceptions are the same:
Andover: **NEW** Due to a small outbreak of coronavirus within the depot services are now running at a service level similar to March 2020:
* Every 30 Minutes on Route 1
* Every Hour on Routes 3 & 4, 6, 76
* Every 2 Hours on Routes 13, P20
* Reduced number of trips on Routes 7 & 7A, 9 &12, 17
* Normal weekday service on Routes 5, 10 & 11, 15, 66/67, 87, CANGO
* No service on route 85
* Only Salisbury Reds trips will run on Activ8
Basingstoke:
* Route 16 (Steventon) & Route 22 (Sherbourne) will run on their usual days
* Special services run on Route 9 (Alton) and Route 13 (between Whitehill & Haslemere)
Portsmouth:
* Hoverbus runs to a weekday timetable
* Route 38 (Petersfield to Alton) will run to a School Holiday weekday timetable
Winchester: A weekday service operates on:
* Routes 46 & 461 (North Baddesley)
* Route 95 (East Stratton) on it’s usual Mondays and Thursdays
* Route 240 (Ropley to Alresford) on it’s usual Mondays and Thursdays
It should be noted though that the Winchester Park & Ride is back to a Saturday Timetable.
At GoAhead the variety of companies across the group again offer a variety of operations. We can not even really say that it is a mostly Saturday service or otherwise:
Bluestar: A Saturday Service except:
* Weekday timetable on Routes 35 and 36 in Romsey
* Normal timetable on Route 39 to Nomansland on Wednesday
* Normal timetable on Routes T3 and T4 on Tuesday
* Normal timetable on Routes H1 and H2 on Wednesday
Southampton UniLink: A Saturday service, although the U1N nightbus remains suspended
morebus: A Saturday Service, with weekday timetables running on:
* Routes X1 / X2 / X3 / X6 from Bournemouth out to the New Forest, Ringwood and Lymington
* Route X8 from Poole to Blandford
* Routes 38 / 112 / 119 / 191 / 193 through the New Forest (on their relevant days)
* RINGO & CANGO
BU Unibus: The only bus running is a special hourly service on the U3
Salisbury Reds: A normal weekday timetable, except the Activ8 which is a Saturday service.
Southern Vectis: A normal weekday timetable on ALL routes
Damory & Exclesior: Normal weekday timetables
At Yellow Buses there will be a Saturday service running, with the following exceptions:
- Weekday Timetables (due to no Saturday service) run on:
- 18 (for Canford Heath, Waterloo Estate and Broadstone)
- 21 (Bransgrove to Christchurch) d
- 33 (for Boscome, Hospital and Southbourne)
- 36 (Talbot View to University and Kinson)
- 737 (for Aviation Business Park and Bournemouth Airport)
- NO service will operate on the 6h and 31.
At Xelabus
Now…. Xelabus are still running a significantly reduced timetable for the month due to low patronage.
Special Service on Services X6 and X7 to Velmore, Chandlers Ford and Hiltingbury.
Saturday Service
- Service X4 (Hedge End – West End – Colleges – Eastleigh)
- Service X9 (Bishops Waltham – Hedge End – Eastleigh)
- Service X10 (Southampton – Bishops Waltham – Waltham Chase)
- Service X11 (Southampton – Lords Hill)
Weekday Service
- Service X12 (Southampton – Freemantle – Shirley) will run on Tuesday
- Service X15 (Hamble – Hedge End – Fair Oak – Eastleigh)
- Service X21 for Southampton Science Park
- The Bitterne Hoppa will run on Wednesday
NO SERVICE on the X17 on Wednesday
New Years Eve
Most companies are advertising an early closedown in conjunction with their reduced service levels.
First Hampshire & Dorset are continuing their Saturday service, except on the same weekday exceptions as above.
New Years Eve services will again close down around 8pm, which if you were travelling on Christmas Eve are the same times. You can find the details of the last departures in each area at:
Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham
Southampton
Weymouth & Dorchester
Stagecoach South will run the same service on New Years Eve as the rest of the week, but with an early shut down around 9pm.
If you are out partying on New Years Eve evening, Check the Christmas Page.
Most GoAhead bus companies will run through to the end of normal service. There are no overnight extra services for the new year.
On the Southampton Unilink there is an early finish on:
- U1 – last departures are 2105 from Southampton Central and Southampton Airport Parkway
- U6 – last departures are 2035 from NOCS and 2033 from Aldmoor
Yellow Buses run the same timetable as the rest of the week.
Services will finish earlier than usual on New Years Eve and Yellow Buses have reprinted a PDF of all affected services. You can find this PDF here on the Yellow Buses website.
As with Christmas Eve, services will start their last journeys out of Bournemouth between 18:00 and 18:30 – it is the SAME timetable as Christmas Eve.
Beware: The last service from Poole to Christchurch on route 1 is 16:43.
Xelabus will run the same timetables as the rest of the week.
As with Christmas Eve, the Thursday service on the X12 will run, and the last X21 is 1500 from the Science Park.
Please have a safe New Year. I hope that your Christmas went well, that the changes to the rules around gatherings did not cause too many issues, and that you all join us again in January as we continue to keep you up to date on bus travel around Hampshire and Dorset.