Bank Holiday Bus Services

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith 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 minuteWith 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…

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Back to Normal

Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome 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…

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Changes at Xelabus in January

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough 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…

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Festive Services at Xelabus

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis operator is running buses on more days than First Bus over the Christmas period….

Update of the Fortnight

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt 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…

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Xelabus Contract Wins

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver 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…

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Changes at Xelabus – 30th May

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough 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…

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Xelabus from 8th March

Reading Time: 3 minutesXelabus 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 minuteIf 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…

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