Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the years we’ve seen buses of various colours in carnations and ownerships jostling for space up the Shirley road. On Saturday though that all came to an hour although that all came to an end as First Southampton run…
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First Solent changes in March
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are a number of changes coming up in March with I have already talked about in previous posts. Timetables are now live though, for the The Star 7 and the improving Gosport 9 & 9A, along with other changes…
Updates from Bournemouth
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the more enthusiastic, this will be a round-up, because with the speed of things changing in Bournemouth at Yellow Coaches; I did not want to write something that was almost immediately out of date. So this is the state…
A bit of a late running roundup
Reading Time: 4 minutesPicture: entirely random, but Routemaster buses are still operating in Central London on tourist service A. This runs from Waterloo Station to Piccadilly Circus using three buses on an every 20 minute service. it is operated by Transpora Group’s Londoner…
School Buses Start to Stop
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing on from the impending closure of the Yellow Coaches operation in Bournemouth (albeit not the closure of Yellow Coaches Ltd) there have been some updates of late. I was quite keen for Yellow Coaches and/or XelaGroup to actually tell…
Upcoming Changes at First Solent
Reading Time: 3 minutesNone of the timetable changes at First Solent are particularly major at the moment. Unless you include the new early morning and late night services in the Portsmouth City area, you get the odd change here, the occasional timing point…
Bluestar Timetables Released
Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from the announcement that City Red was leaving Southampton, Bluestar have been on a public relations drive to recruit passengers and drivers to a network of new replacement routes. Go South Coast have now released the timetables for…
Yellow Coaches to Close Again
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you were watching on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, after I received a tip in the morning from an anonymous source, it has now been confirmed that Yellow Coaches are pulling out of Bournemouth. It is a story that you…
New Years Day 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow’s the Head this morning? Wherever you chose to listen to the fireworks from, may I be the last to wish you a Happy New Year – primarily because everyone else did it between 2330 and 0030. Yes, I was…
A Quick Year in Review
Reading Time: 9 minutesWith the New Year soon upon us it is time, of course, to reflect on the 12 months of past and the 12 months of future. Over the last 12 months, I think we have seen how hard it can…