Reading Time: 4 minutesThrough frosty lanes the Bluestars roam,Past candle-lit streets and fireside homes,Their headlights gleam through winter’s veil,Soft carols drift along their trail. From Winchester’s spire to Solent’s shore,They carry cheer from door to door,Each journey hums with yuletide grace,As Hampshire dreams…
Tag: southampton
An October Roundup
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 –…
New Bluestar Park & Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutesBluestar have announced that from next weekend, Saturday 21st September, new Park & Ride services for Southampton. The services will be based out of the Adanac Park NHS Park & Ride site, which is used during the week to cater…
New Undergrad Term – UniLink
Reading Time: 2 minutesHot on the heels of the kids going back to school, the new cohort of undergraduates will soon be descending on Southampton as the new university year kicks off. Changes to the UniLink network will take effect from Monday 22nd…
New School Year – Bluestar
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the new school year already feeling like it is next week. Bluestar have confirmed their changes taking affect on Sunday 31st August. There appears to be a lot of Bus Service Improvement Plan funding coming in for services in…
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: Bluestar Bus Service Changes
Reading Time: 5 minutesAn important point of order: Have I really got no up to date pictures from Southampton? The featured image was from march last year! Hot on the heels of our post about changes at First Solent, we come with more…
Thoughts from the Reader: Transport Provision in Hampshire
Reading Time: 2 minutesI received an email from a blog reader between Christmas and New Year. In a similar way that some local newspapers publish letters from their readers, I thought that it might be interesting to try something new for 2025 and…
Bus Times: New Years Day 2025
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Years Day has traditionally been a day where heritage bus owners take to the streets in parts of our area for a range of events. Today is no different except the fact that the Met Office has issued a…
Bus Times: New Years Eve 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo as you can tell, the scheduling for the posts is going, okay. Well, I say okay but last nights came out two hours late as I… did a typo. We fast forward though to the last day of the…