Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Tis the season to be jolly,But I have a cracking headache,And it’s not a hangover, as I have not been drinking! I know, the seasonal lull of mood and cold weather is in full swing. When you are standing out…
Category: First Hampshire & Dorset
First to Close Southampton
Reading Time: 5 minutesI know. One of the busiest days that I have had in a long time and First Southampton uses it to announce that the City Red operation is closing down. Many of you will have seen me commenting on social…
First Solent at Christmas
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn one of those “RaRe, BeAsT, ThRaSh” moments; I feel a bit Deja vu when I say this, but we have a third occasion in one season’s tidings that I am going to say NEW. We are back with the…
First Southampton at Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutesWould YOU run a bus service for a Boxing Day home football game against another South Coast team?
Fares Up! – Solent Edition
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst Solent increase bus fares. in December.
Fares Up! Wessex Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, if you have hit the eggnog with the latest Government Autumn Statement – then we add logs to the fire as the south’s bus operators have announced that they are putting up bus fares in December. There is a…
Upcoming Changes at First Solent
Reading Time: 3 minutesUpdated 05 November to add timetable information. Updated 08 November as First Solent now have PDF timetables live. Also to note: Additional X5 0740 Warsash to Gosport (for Bay House School) from 04 December. I seem to remember that there…
It was – then it wasn’t – then it was
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing on from the on – off cancellation of a competing small operators service East of Southampton, First Southampton’s City Red 9 service has won a reprieve from Mobday 31st October. Under the arrangement with Southampton City Council, the service…
Changes at First Southampton
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe timetables and details of the changes to the City Reds network have now been published and the newly First South West-d brand will be making these significant changes on Sunday 30th October. It appears, despite the protestations of the…
First Wessex changes in October
Reading Time: 2 minutesMoving from the autumn to the winter timetable, First Wessex have registered a number of changes that have taken effect on Sunday 9th October. Services are taking a bit of a hit this winter which would suggest that First Wessex…