Xelabus at Christmas

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

It was – then it wasn’t – then it was again

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was announced yesterday, Wednesday 12th October, that following on from a period of due diligence the manager who was to buy the Southampton Mini Link operation is no longer going to. As a result, Simon Gard has announced that…

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Southampton Mini Link in Eastleigh

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the long running saga between Xelabus and Hampshire County Council, I have held off from posting this. I hoped that Hampshire County Council took a change of heart, Xelabus realised that Bournemouth has given them enough inspiration to run…

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Fundraiser for a Bus to Chandlers Ford

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing the announcement that Xelabus have registered their cancellation of some services, another independent operator has proffered to get public funding to replace council funding for routes in West Eastleigh. As we have reported previously, Hampshire County Council have had…

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Less Green Everywhere….

Reading Time: 4 minutesTwo updates have been made on 01 August 2022 to reflect Hampshire County Council responding to this article. I posted yesterday. I told you that Hampshire County Council were reviewing tendered bus services and that Xelabus had lodged to cancel…

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Less Green to Hamble?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteXelabus have this week submitted a cancellation notice for their Shopper Connect branded X15 service between Eastleigh, Hedge End and Hamble Square. The two round trips on weekdays, which extend to Barton Peveril College on college days, are currently financially…

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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….

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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