During the enforced Christmas holiday we hope to see the last few days of busy buses and people taking advantage of the £2 bus fare cap. The service levels that are out and about Hampshire and Dorset vary, so hopefully this won’t turn into a complicated mess.
South Dorset
In Weymouth and the Jurassic Coast, First Wessex are running a largely Saturday service, unless a service is weekdays only; where it will run a weekday service.
Go-Ahead South’s Damory brand will also run a Saturday service, except services 1, 2, 5, 6, 20, CR7, CR8, CR9 will run to a weekday timetable on weekdays.
Bournemouth & Poole
morebus will be running a Saturday service except for the following weekday timetables:
- Bournemouth services 18, 24, 33, 737
- Rural services 38
- New Forest services 112, 119, 120, 191, Ringo
- X-brand services X1, X2, X3, X6, X8
Southampton
Bluestar will run a Saturday service on most of it’s commercial network. Normal Friday timetables will run on the usual group of financially supported services:
- Bluestar 6 through the New Forest to Lymington (or from Lymington…. as it is managed by morebus’ Lymington depot)
- recently acquired Bluestar 21 services through Shirly
- Service 35 in Romsey
- Services H1 and H2 in Hythe
- Romsey and Salisbury routes X7 and X7R
First Solent are running a Saturday service on the X4 and X5.
Isle of Wight
Southern Vectis will run a full Friday timetable.
Fareham & Gosport
First Solent will run a Saturday Service. That is except services affected by the footnote:
First Solent will run a Saturday Service on this day. That is except services affected by the footnote:
If anyone knows where the individual service summaries are then feel free to mention it. The actual Christmas service page has been removed, so they can not be updated there and I am not going through every timetable to work it all out.
Stagecoach South service 69 will run to a Saturday timetable.
Portsmouth
First Solent is running a Saturday service with the exception of some of those footnoted services that are just a game of Guess Who? or rather Guess Which? to which ones might not be running. The Tipner Park and Ride will operate a normal Friday service.
Stagecoach South will be running a Saturday service, except a special service on the 38 between Petersfield and Alton. Service 23 will start up later than usual from approximately 0530.
Winchester
Stagecoach South will run a Saturday service. The exceptions will be weekday service on the 49 & 49h for Bishops Waltham and Hamble, and the Winchester Park & Ride.
Andover
Stagecoach South will be running a Saturday service. A weekday timetable will run on these exceptions:
- Services 7 & 7a to Newbury
- Service 9 to Berry Way and Floral Way
- Circular Service 12
- Service 13 to Vigo Road
- Service 15 to the Anna Valley and Chilbolton
- Service 17 to Middle Wallop and Over Wallop
- Services 66 & 67 in Tidworth & Salisbury
- Service 87 to Salisbury
- Service 5 to Monxton will only operate at 0945 and 1245
Basingstoke
Stagecoach South will run a Saturday service, as well as the weekday timetable for Dummer and Steventon service 16.
Newbury & District will run a Friday service on Flightline 730 & 731.
