Reading Time: 2 minutes With the Bank Holiday weekend upon us, families will be wanting to head to the beach with temperatures reaching a barmy 16 degrees and only some clouds (maybe) – so can you get there by bus (or even train)? I…
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Easter in Southampton
Reading Time: < 1 minute With the next bank of bank holidays fast approaching, bus operators are starting to release their Easter bank holiday arrangements. Take into account, some operators may be making their decisions based on staffing and current COVID levels, so may be…
Back to Normal
Reading Time: 4 minutes Welcome to 2022! If you are back at work today, or back at school, you are probably just grabbing your coffee from the Tassimo (Nespresso is also available) realising that you did not actually iron that shirt or indeed rolling…
Changes at Xelabus in January
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although I have in the past, berated Xelabus quite sternly, for a lack of information and updating their website; they might have changed! This week the Xelabus website has details of changes to some of it’s services from Sunday 04…
Festive Services at Xelabus
Reading Time: 2 minutes This operator is running buses on more days than First Bus over the Christmas period….
Update of the Fortnight
Reading Time: 3 minutes It has been a weird few weeks hasn’t it? Well for me it has, and I have not really been with things as I work hard on the daytime thing and it has meant I have done none of the…
Xelabus Contract Wins
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the last week it was announced that Xelabus has been awarded a number of new contracts for the school season as well as taking on sub-contracts in other parts of the South. Firstly in the shorter term contracts; Xelabus…
Changes at Xelabus – 30th May
Reading Time: < 1 minute Although the pubs are now open, the shops are bursting at the seams and desperate to remain solvent; it might seem strange that some of our local bus operators have not resumed a near-normal bus timetable. Xelabus was one of…
Xelabus from 8th March
Reading Time: 3 minutes Xelabus have announced their service uplift from Monday 8th March. They have not updated their timetables yet, but at least they tried.
Free Travel to Vaccination Clinics
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you had a fleet of vehicles, sat idle because of a lack of customers, you would probably be busy counting the savings in petrol, wear and tear, and trying to work out how to SORN them. Over at Xelabus…