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…
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Eclipse Diverting off the BRT
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing an increase in bored teenagers, First Solent have taken the decision to remove all Eclipse services on routes E1 and E2 from the Fareham to Gosport busway. This will apply 24 hours a day until at least Monday 8th…
New School Year – First Solent
Reading Time: 3 minutesUpdates: A really badly edited map and details for the new F1 and F2 routes. The new school year is coming, it almost feels like the old school year has just ended! We are less than 56 days to September…
February Strike Timetables at First Solent
Reading Time: 4 minutesNow that everyone has started buying their First Week bus tickets, First Solent have finally released the timetables that they are planning to operate during the upcoming industrial action. Bus drivers based at the First Solent depot in Hoeford have…
February 2025: First Solent Bus Service Changes
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhile in the midst of their industrial dispute, First Solent have announced that they are making some timetable changes to services mostly across Fareham and Gosport. These changes are due to take effect on Sunday 23rd February although with the…
Updates in First Solent Dispute
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirstly, extra services planned this weekend in the strike timetable planned by First Solent. I am not sure whether they have parachuted in drivers from other depots, Hilsea drivers are being offered a really big golden carrot, or whether Unite…
Industrial Action at First Solent – This Weekend
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you hear the news that industrial action has been called, you wait for the inevitable scurry of complaints from customers while a company is busy organising it’s operations. I kept hearing, and seeing, that First Solent had it’s next…
Bus Times: Boxing Day 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutesI hope you all had a great Christmas Day. I hear from the comment on the Christmas Day post that services in the Southampton area were well patronaged at lunchtime, however I was not near a Christmas Day bus route…
Industrial Action at First Solent
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdated 18 December Ahead of the first strike action scheduled by First Solent tomorrow, the timetables and hoped service levels have appeared. If I am honest, I am surprised that there are as many buses planned to run on Hoeford…
Christmas Services at First
Reading Time: 5 minutesSolent’s misty shores Wessex hills draped white with frost Buses wind their way Through Portsmouth, Gosport’s bright streets Festive lights gleam on windows Welcome from another AI generated festive ditty and this time it should be clear, that it is…