Reading Time: 4 minutesFor one last time this festive season, as some of you are awaiting the snow to fall and others praying that it doesn’t, we look at the seasonal changes for bus services for Friday 2nd January 2026. From tomorrow normal…
Category: Service Updates
Christmas Schedules: Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th December
Reading Time: 3 minutesYes, the picture is AI generated. I know. It is using the Seedream 4.5 generation model if you are interested. In the time of the Christmas lull between Boxing Day and New Years Eve some of us have to fight…
Boxing Day Buses
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow is the food coma? Are you stilling yesterday’s centrepiece into tonight’s curry? We had a lovely and largely quiet day, or rather a quiet afternoon after a pair of hyper-excited children spent the morning among tonnes of discarded wrapping…
Christmas Day Buses
Reading Time: 3 minutesI am currently sat at the computer, having had a few Northern Monk beers from Lidl, wishing you a very Merry Christmas, a Hanukkah Sameach or however you celebrate this time. I have the gammon and turkey, I have the…
Christmas Eve Schedules
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you got your gammon yet? Is it slow cooked in Cola and full of warming sweet brown sugar? This is your LAST CHANCE WARNING that the shops are closing for 36 hours. Go grab the last of the satsuma,…
Christmas Schedules: Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd December
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you are out and about chasing the best Christmas Turkey of the year – there are reduced bus services across most of the region in the run up to Christmas. Remember, remember though, it is still a weekday in…
Stagecoach South Christmas Schedules
Reading Time: 6 minutes<insert a witty ditty here><bah humbug> Stagecoach South have released their Christmas timetables and there are no great shakes (as a wise man to me oft says) although I sometimes wonder whether the sheer size of the operation now should…
January 2026: Stagecoach Basingstoke Changes
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is not unusual for a bus company to make changes to services in January, simply because people come out of the seasonally lower frequencies and then they have a new timetable to come back to. Stagecoach South have decided…
First Solent Christmas schedules
Reading Time: 6 minutesAfter a few days break we are back to the Christmas schedules and thanks to the heads up from Tony, and the prompt email from First Bus, the seasonal schedule changes are upon us. It is not a change that…
First Wessex Christmas schedules
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst Wessex have announced their Christmas schedules for 2025 and with thanks to Tony for the heads up that they have appeared. I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is pretty much the standard…