Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing all the changes for the start of the school year, there are a few more tweaks that are in the works that will affect services in the Portsmouth area coming up just before the school half-term break. Portsmouth –…
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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…
New School Year – Stagecoach South
Reading Time: 4 minutesUpdated to include service 77 college day trips and the withdrawal of the 61. 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 though…
First Solent – Strike Suspended
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow last week, there were press reports that First Solent had imposed a pay award on bus drivers based at Hoeford bus depot after failing to make any significant progress in talks. In the last 24 hours though, it appears…
April 2025: Stagecoach Portsmouth timetables
Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week I posted about the changes to the Stagecoach South “Havant and Greater Portsmouth” timetable changes on 6th April, that are bringing in a raft of split and new services to Havant and the City of Portsmouth. There were…
April 2025: Stagecoach Portsmouth service changes
Reading Time: 4 minutesStagecoach South have announced that there are upcoming changes in the Portsmouth and Havant area for many of it’s services on 6th April 2025. Some of these changes are in partnership with Portsmouth City Council and funded by the Bus…
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…