Tuesday 27th December (Substitute Bank Holiday)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFirst Bus Most First Bus subsidiaries across Hampshire & Dorset are running a Sunday service today. There are a very small number of exceptions to that rule though: Go South Coast Most of the buses across Bluestar, morebus and Southern…

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Boxing Day 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesHappy Full National Football Programme While Eating the Rest Of Last Years Turkey day! I know, the tradition of the rich boxing up presents to give to the poor, and giving their servants the day off to feast on Christmas…

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Christmas Day 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesHo! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas. However you choose to celebrate the big day – this year we are on the Isle of Wight – I hope that you are having the festive season that you can enjoy. It feels like…

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Christmas Eve 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor all of you that are racing home for Christmas, the best of luck. Having seen the press about rail services this week, almost all rail services will be closed from 3pm on Christmas Eve. The bus services in the…

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Christmas in Wessex

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…

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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…

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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?

Stagecoach at Christmas

Reading Time: 4 minutesStagecoach are running a pretty much expected service level over Christmas…. with one exception

Xelabus at Christmas

Reading Time: < 1 minuteXelabus have announced their Christmas service levels.

more(bus) C-words

Reading Time: 2 minutesHere comes Breezer bus, here comes Breezer bus,Running fast through Dorset’s lanesVixen and Blitzen and all the engineersSunk the Ferry Again I know, I know – it does not quite work and far from a few fat reindeer sinking the…

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