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Free Travel to Vaccination Clinics

13 January 202113 January 2021 HantsBusxelabus

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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Xelabus Changes Today

11 January 20212 March 2021 HantsBusExpired, xelabus

Reading Time: 3 minutesXelabus confirmed over Christmas that when the schools went back last week – okay, when schools did a day in school last week – that they would not be returning to anything near a normal service. When the new national…

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Changes Cancelled at Xelabus

26 December 202020 January 2021 HantsBusExpired, Service Updates

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing the recent Government announcement, I am not surprised to see that Xelabus have decided that now is not the time to restore their service. This means that they will be running a reduced service across parts of their network…

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Christmas Buses – Monday to Wednesday

21 December 202020 January 2021 HantsBusExpired, Seasonal Services
A Christmas header wallpaper

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s Christmas Week! We are all busy panic buying the last cauliflower, because obviously they come from abroad, queueing outside Costa at 5am to get the coffee to get through the 6am queue at Sainsburys, and then getting the bus…

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Changes This Weekend

7 November 202020 January 2021 HantsBusExpired, Service Updates

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe were almost promised no significant changes to bus services over this shorter second Lockdown darcy the pandemic. there are some changes announced this weekend though which are partly planned and partly due to an unplanned shortage of drivers. To…

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Southampton Bus Changes – 30 August

30 August 202020 January 2021 HantsBusExpired, Service Updates, Uncategorised

Reading Time: 3 minutesSouthampton slowly returns to a normal bus service following COVID, this is the current state of the bus service in the city.

Xelabus to Return to NORMAL service Bank Holiday

12 August 202020 January 2021 HantsBusExpired, Uncategorised

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSmall Eastleigh operator Xelabus have published their bus service information for the end of the month and it’s good news. A full “pre-covid” timetable resumes as part of their service changes. You may have noticed before that Xelabus was different…

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Welcome to the Hants Bus Blog

6 August 20208 August 2020 HantsBusUncategorised

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s always strange to start writing a new blog from a blank canvas. Over the years I have followed the Southampton Bus Update on Blogspot as the author has covered service changes, bus controversies and put to bed some of…

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About Hants Bus

Hants Bus is a poor replacement for the Southampton Bus Update that has been gracing Blogspot since 2009.

Mostly talking about changes to your buses across Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight; we will also touch on transport policy, a little nostalgia, and even a little bit of calling the less professional operators to account….

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