Scunthorpe-Crowle-Goole Improvements

In September 2024, Stagecoach took over operation of tendered services 360 and 361 between Scunthorpe and Goole from East Yorkshire. The previous timetable was optimised for working the services from the Goole end of the route, rather than the Scunthorpe end as Stagecoach are doing. 

On Monday 1st September 2025, Stagecoach added a number of extra journeys to the services, effectively in-service positioning journeys, but many of which genuinely enhance the overall offering. Monday to Friday mornings there is a new 0615 service 360 from Scunthorpe to Goole, providing a 0721 first arrival, previously 0839 first arrival on service 361 from Eastoft or 1100 from Scunthorpe. This journey provides a replacement facility for the 0715 Swinefleet to Goole journey withdrawn in 2019.

There is also a new Monday to Friday 0705 service 361 from Scunthorpe to Eastoft, continuing as the existing 0749 Eastoft to Goole. It would be better if the two journeys were combined into one, but presumably the 0705 is commercial and the 0749 tendered and there are either contractual or financial reasons for the split? The important thing though is that this offers an earlier option for travel from Scunthorpe and Crowle into Goole. It was one of the potential additions I highlighted in 2024. A comment to that post said that my suggestions "all too often come across as frankly bus-spottery in the most contemptuous sense of that term". Seems like Stagecoach agreed with me/had the same idea as me on this particular suggestion at least.

In the other direction, there is a new Monday to Friday 1805 Eastoft to Scunthorpe 361 service, connecting out of the existing 1725 Goole to Eastoft 360 service, as well as a new Monday to Friday 1840 Goole to Scunthorpe route 360 service. This latter journey provides a replacement for the 1835 Goole to Swinefleet withdrawn in 2019. The last service from Goole to Scunthorpe was previously at 1520.

On Saturdays there is a new 0645 Scunthorpe to Eastoft service 361, which continues as the existing 0729 Eastoft to Goole service 361. In the opposite direction, the existing 1745 Goole to Eastoft service 361 continues as a new 1825 Eastoft to Scunthorpe service 361. Notably these two new service 361 journeys are the only ones on a Saturday to service Scunthorpe Hospital.

The Saturday late morning requirement for a second vehicle for the sake of half an hour continues - the 'first' vehicle of the day finishes it's 'tendered operating day' Goole at 1139, but the 'second' starts it's 'tendered operating day' in Goole at 1110. Stagecoach have however the made the associated Scunthorpe to Goole positioning journeys into publicly available service 361's, at 0945 from Scunthorpe and 1145 from Goole. Overall Saturday departures from Scunthorpe are now at 0645, 0945, 1025, 1310 and 1630, and from Goole at 0820, 1110, 1145, 1430 and 1745. 

On Sundays, new journeys have been added from Scunthorpe at 0815, previous first service at 1100, and from Goole at 1820, previous last service at 1535. Both the extra journeys operate as a service 361 meaning the Sunday service goes from three to four journeys each way. It is nice to see the extra journeys operating as a 'normal' 361, rather than taking the quicker option of the A161 between Eastoft and Swinefleet. At those times on a Sunday, it would have been quite understandable had the A161 been chosen.

Not worth a separate post, but also from 1st September 2025, Stagecoach service 90 between Scunthorpe and Crowle gained schoolday only extra journeys from Scunthorpe at 1530 and from Crowle at 1610. There were already Saturday journeys at the same time, thus creating the unusual circumstance of the two journeys now operating Schooldays and every Saturday only - but not on weekdays in School Holidays. The 1530 usefully fills a gap from Scunthorpe to Crowle between 1430 and 1640, but from Crowle runs just ahead of a 361 on schooldays.

Scunthorpe Town Circular Changes

Stagecoach amended their town circulars 1 and 1A in Scunthorpe on Monday 1st September. Previously both clockwise and anti-clockwise journeys had the same number, but now the clockwise circulars are numbered 2 or 2A, with the anti-clockwise circulars remaining the 1 or 1A. Service 2 now starts 30 minutes earlier Monday to Saturday, with a new 0630 departure from Scunthorpe Bus Station. Sunday daytime 1A and 2A journeys now also serve Lakeside Retail Park and Bellingham Road.

Hull to Gunness

Stagecoach service 350 between Hull, Barton and Scunthorpe had some significant changes introduced on Monday 1st September, most notably at the Scunthorpe end of the route.

The 350 was initially given a revised direct route into Scunthorpe via Winterton Road and Brigg Road to Scunthorpe Bus Station, rather than serving Mannaberg Way, Normanby Road and Frodingham Road. As a result, Mannaberg Way became unserved and Normanby Road was left with only a very limited service. However this specific routing was amended on 3rd November due to "customer feedback" to instead operate via Mannaberg Way, Normanby Road, Glebe Road and Brigg Road - i.e. a mix of old and new.

Additionally (since September) from Scunthorpe Bus Station, daily daytime journeys have been extended to Gallagher Retail Park/Tesco Extra (technically in the parish of Gunness, hence the blog title) via Scunthorpe Hospital and Doncaster Road. This provides new direct connectivity from Roxby, Winterton, Winteringham, South Ferriby, Barton and Hull to both Scunthorpe Hospital and the Retail Parks west of Scunthorpe, as well as new access from Doncaster Road in Scunthorpe to Hull. It also means there is now a Hull Royal Infirmary to Scunthorpe Hospital service.

One consequence of this extension is that the morning peak extension of one service to Scunthorpe Station, and of another on college days only to the Scunthorpe Colleges has ended.

There were also two changes in Barton. Most significantly the route around Barton has been reversed. For many years, possibly since the Humber Bridge opened in 1981, services to/from Hull have operated direct to Barton Interchange via Ferriby Road and Fleetgate, whilst services to/from Scunthorpe have operated to the Interchange via Ferriby Road, the Market Place, Pasture Road and Butts Road. Now however the opposite applies, with Scunthorpe bound services operating direct and Hull bound services via the Market Place. The logic here is presumably consistency with the 250 which routes to/from Hull via the Market Place, Pasture Road and Butts Road to the Interchange before continuing to Barrow and Grimsby - the road layout in Barton doesn't allow a service from Hull continuing towards Barrow to route directly from Hull to the Interchange and then serve both the Market Place and Butts Road. So changing the long standing 350 route is sensible and welcome. It also enables improved timetable co-ordination between the 250 and 350 from Barton to Hull. 

Also worth noting is that the 350's remaining Wren Kitchens diversions in Barton were withdrawn as part of these changes; Wren's 'The Nest' facility in Barton is now served by the 255 only, with the 250 available on nearby Falkland Way.

Whilst the headline frequency remains half hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes, approximately hourly Monday to Saturday evenings and two hourly on Sundays, there were some welcome improvements to the timetable. From Scunthorpe Bus Station the first departure to Hull Monday to Saturday is now at 0530 not 0615, arriving into Hull for 0640, previous first arrival 0730. Rather than two fifty minute gaps in morning peak departures from Scunthorpe, there is now just one forty five minute gap, whilst from Hull the previous forty five minute gap in the morning peak is eliminated completely. 

Departures from Hull move from 10 and 40 minutes past the hour to 15 and 45 minutes past, improving Hull to Barton co-ordination with the 250 that leaves on the hour; so a 15-30-15 minute interval rather than 10-30-20. In the evening peak and early evening there are more departures from Hull; rather than 1610, 1645, 1725, 1755, 1835, 1950 and 2050, it is now 1615, 1700 then half hourly to 2000 followed by 2050 - i.e. the daytime frequency applies until 2000.

There is also a new one hour later last departure from Scunthorpe Bus Station at 2220 Monday to Saturday. Monday to Friday this service terminates in Barton, with the vehicle and driver then going on to work the 2320 service 255 from Wren Kitchens; on Saturdays the 2220 runs through to Hull.

For anyone interested, the Monday to Saturday daytime service has gone from three Hull depot and three Scunthorpe depot workings to two Hull depot and five Scunthorpe depot workings; Hull has however gained an evening Scunthorpe service.

On Sundays, the main development was the addition of a 0750 Scunthorpe Bus Station to Barton Interchange and 0824 return, providing a 30 minute earlier Barton arrival but more significantly a two hour three minute earlier Scunthorpe arrival. Otherwise Sunday services have been slightly retimed to provide a perfect hourly service between Barton and Hull when combined with the 250, rather than the previous approximately hourly service.

One final change to the 350 involved stands at both Hull Paragon Interchange and Scunthorpe Bus Station. For whatever reason the 350, plus the 250/255/256, were moved at Paragon Interchange from Stand 10 - near to all the other Anlaby Road/Boothferry Road services - to Stand 34 - in between the 14 to Greatfield and the 75/78/79/X7 to Hedon and Withernsea.

If you are wondering about Frodingham Road in Scunthorpe, a daytime only replacement has been provided (increased to hourly on Sunday daytimes) by revised Scunthorpe Town Services 7 and 8. These no longer serve Scunthorpe Hospital - arguably a swap here with the 350 - instead serving Frodingham Road. The 7 then routes via Ferry Road and Avenue Vivian (replacing the 8) to pick up it's old route on Doncaster Road, whilst the 8 continues it's old route via Foxhills Road.

Personally I would have kept the 350 along Frodingham Road and extended to Gallagher Retail Park via Scunthorpe Station and Church Lane, providing a much improved service for the Station, Church Lane and the southern side of Scunthorpe Hospital, whilst also allowing the 7/8 to continue serving the Hospital. However, overall this package of changes is clearly an improvement, especially with the relatively quick change in November to reinstate a service to Mannaberg Way.

All day service for Clough Road

A very significant increase in buses along the 'mixed-use' Clough Road in Hull took place on 31st August. Stagecoach weekday morning service 7X from Hull Paragon Interchange to Bransholme North Point Shopping Centre (in this direction only) via Beverley Road, Clough Road, Holwell Road, Sutton Road and Sutton Park was replaced by all day daily service 7C, operating in both directions and serving West Carr Lane and Stockholm Road in Sutton Fields Industrial Estate rather than Holwell Road and Sutton Road.

The improvement has been facilitated by reducing the frequency on service 7 between the Interchange and North Point via Beverley Road and Sutton Park, although given the shared sections of route, the only frequency decrease is on Beverley Road between Clough Road and Sutton Road, and on Sutton Road between Beverley Road and Ennerdale Leisure Centre. Service 7 had operated every 15 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes, every 20 minutes Saturday daytimes, every half hour Monday to Saturday evening and Sunday daytimes and every hour Sunday evenings. The 7/7C now operate a combined every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes (half hourly each) and combined half hourly Monday to Saturday evenings and Sunday daytimes (hourly each). Sunday evenings remain an hourly 7 with no 7C. Note that Saturday daytimes increased from every 20 minutes to every 15 minutes over the shared sections of route. All early morning/morning peak departures from North Point operate as a 7, likewise on Monday to Friday evenings. 

Interworked service 8 between Hull Paragon Interchange and North Point via Holderness Road, Salthouse Road, Bellfield Avenue and Spring Cottage was also amended at the same time. Any journey that continues at North Point as a 7C has been renumbered to 8C; the same doesn't apply in the other direction making the 8C a 'one-way' only route.

The Saturday daytime frequency on service 8/8C has also been reduced from every 20 minutes to half hourly, although the 8 is timed to offer a 15 minute frequency over common sections of route with the 11 and 111. Positively, later Saturday evening journeys have been added to service 8 at 2150 and 2250 from Paragon Interchange. On Sundays the 8/8C has been reduced from every half hour to hourly.

Finally the 'closed door' service C241 from North Bransholme to Heron Foods at Melton became a public service renumbered to 7M. It follows the 255/256 route from North Bransholme to Boothferry Road Costello Stadium via Bodmin Road, North Point, Sutton Park, Beverley Road, Paragon Interchange, Hull Royal Infirmary and Fiveways, which is also the same route as the 7 between North Point and the Interchange. From Costello Stadium the 7M operates via Boothferry Estate, Hessle Square and North Ferriby. To show the range of services now available from North Bransholme, Bransholme, Sutton Park and Beverley Road to Hull Royal Infirmary, the MKM Stadium and Fiveways, there is now a Humber Transport summary timetable available here.

Better Links for Kingswood

Stagecoach service 12 in Hull was significantly revised on Sunday 31st August. The route had previously operated between Hull Paragon Interchange, Holderness Road Shops, Gillshill Road, Sutton Village, Noddle Hill Way, Wawne Road and Bransholme North Point Shopping Centre every 15-20 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes, every 15-30 minutes Saturday daytimes, every half hour Sunday daytimes and hourly daily evenings.

Now the 12 has been extended beyond North Point via Bude Road, Kingswood Retail Park, Runnymede Avenue, Barnes Road and Richmond Way to Kingswood Health Centre. New variant 12A has also been added, running from Paragon Interchange to Noddle Hill Way as per the 12, then via a northern part of Wawne Road to Pioneer Way and Kingswood Health Centre. Almost all journeys run as a circular, either a 12 to Kingswood Health Centre returning as a 12A, or vice versa - although based on my observations at Kingswood Retail Park last week, maybe that should be the 12/12A terminus. having the 12 going in two directions seemed to be confusing some passengers.

Monday to Saturday daytimes the 12 and 12A each operate every half hour. Over the combined section of route a 15 minute even interval frequency is maintained from Paragon Interchange, but 12-18 minute intervals exist from Noddle Hill Way back into Hull City Centre. On Sunday daytimes each route operates hourly, with a half hourly combined frequency from Paragon Interchange and a 29-31 minute interval from Noddle Hill Way in the other direction. Daily evening service are an hourly 12 from Paragon Interchange, returning as a 12A - i.e. a one-directional loop around Bransholme and Kingswood.

There are a lot of positives from these changes, with a standardised four buses per hour Monday to Saturday daytimes between Paragon Interchange and Noddle Hill Way, new links to Kingswood from Summergangs Road, Gillshill Road, Sutton Village and Noddle Hill Way, new North Point links from Kingswood and new services for previously unserved Runnymede Avenue/Barnes Road (along with the re-routed 11/111), Richmond Way and parts of Bude Road. 

Customers wanting North Point on the common service 12/12A section of route however now have a detour around Kingswood on approximately half the timetable, as do passengers between Wawne Road and Hull City Centre. The 1941 departure from Paragon Interchange on Saturdays has also been withdrawn without replacement, meaning the hourly evening frequency now begins at 1915 not 2011. Overall there seems to be more gains than losses.

At the same time as the 12A was introduced to Pioneer Way, service 6 was withdrawn from Pioneer Way; rather than operating a Kingswood Health Centre-Pioneer Way-North Bransholme-Kingsbury Way-Health Centre loop, the 6 now operates from the Health Centre to North Bransholme via Kingsbury Way in both directions.

45 Minute Gaps in a Half Hourly Frequency

In recent years, Stagecoach putting sporadic 15 minute gaps in a 10 minute frequency, or 30 minute gaps in a 20 minute frequency Monday to Friday daytimes has become a feature of some timetables in Hull. Presumably this cuts the vehicle requirement down by one and saves a driver or two whilst just about maintaining 'headline' frequencies? 

Stagecoach took things one stage further in their 31st August service changes - 45 minute gaps in otherwise half hourly services on routes 4 to Orchard Park and the 6 to Kingswood. To provide an example, from Orchard Park Tesco the 4 departs at 0900, 0930, 1000 then 1045, half hourly to 1315, then 1400. Again these apply Monday to Friday only - the 4 remains a consistent half hourly frequency on both Saturday and Sunday daytimes, as does the 6 on Saturday daytimes.

Saturday only commuter service?

Here is a little curiosity to come out of Stagecoach's 31st August service changes in Hull. On service 16, the 0730 Paragon Interchange to Siemens 'short' was withdrawn Monday to Friday (first journey now at 0908), but retained on Saturdays. Seems rather odd that a morning peak service to Siemens is being provided on a Saturday only? There is a Monday to Friday only 0700 East Yorkshire service 79 from the Interchange that serves Siemens - is the 0730 a Saturday replacement for that? Or is the explanation something else?

Service 677 Withdrawal

Stagecoach service 677 between Hull Paragon Interchange and Preston Cranswick Foods was withdrawn after operation on Friday 29th August last year "due to low passenger demand". The service offered two journeys from the Interchange at 0500 and 0530 and three from Preston at 0550, 0620 and 1820 - all Monday to Friday only. Services routed via Beverley Road, Clough Road, Leads Road, Ings Road, Holderness Road and Bilton.

Service 33 Extended

Stagecoach extended service 33 between Hull Paragon Interchange, Garden Village, Malet Lambert School, Ings Road, Leads Road, Sutton Village, Howdale Road, Kestrel Avenue, Biggin Avenue and North Point Shopping Centre on 1st September. At peak times only, the 33 now extends via Bude Road and Bodmin Road to Kingswood Retail Park (service 11/111 route), then to Kingswood Medical Centre via Runnymede Lane (service 6 route) and finally to the North Bransholme Hilltop Farm roundabout via the otherwise unserved Diversity Drive in one of the new sections of residential Kingswood.

Off peak, the 33 has been renumbered as 33C - these are just 'short' 33's between Paragon Interchange and North Point, but presumably the 'C' is to make this extra 'clear'. Overall frequency remains hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes, rising to half hourly in the evening peak out of Hull City Centre.

This is a slightly different version of what was suggested in March 2025. At that time the 33C was planned as introduced in September, but the 33 would have operated from Leads Road via Wawne Road to Diversity Drive and Kingswood Medical Centre, then via Richmond Way and Barnes Way to Kingswood Retail Park. The originally proposed 33 would have provided a more direct service to Diversity Drive and to Kingswood more broadly, but at the expense of peak time connectivity to Kestrel Avenue, Biggin Avenue and parts of Howdale Road; North Point would also have been unserved at peak times by the 33.

It will be interesting to see if there are any further changes in Kingswood to provide an all day service to Diversity Drive. The 33 looks to be an attempt to provide an initial service in marginal time via a convoluted route; that may make sense whilst the area is being developed and struggles to justify any more extensive provision, but I'm not convinced it will be viable long term. 

At the same time the 33S schools service from Victoria Dock to Malet Lambert School - with the afternoon return extended to Paragon Interchange - became a Monday to Friday (including School Holidays) 33A between Hull Paragon Interchange, Victoria Dock, Garden Village, Malet Lambert School, Ings Road, Leads Road, Midmere Avenue and North Point, with a 0745 departure from Paragon Interchange and a 1515 service from North Point.

Associated service 34 between Hull Paragon Interchange, Garden Village, Chamberlain Road and the Stagecoach depot on Foster Street gained extra departures at 1415 and 1515 Monday to Friday from Paragon Interchange and at 1445 from Foster Street.

Changes to the 11, 80, 110 and 111

A number of small changes were made to co-ordinated Stagecoach services 11 (Hull-Ings Estate-North Point-Kingswood-Castle Hill Hospital) and 110/111 (Hull-Ings Estate-North Point-Kingswood-Beverley) from 31st August.

In the Kingswood area, both services now serve Runnymede Way, Runnymede Avenue, Barnes Road and Barnes Way, but not Kingswood Leisure Park - with the exception of the early morning and evening service 11's that start/terminate at Kingswood and which now use the Leisure Park to do so, as opposed to the Retail Park previously. Service 6 maintains an 'all-day' service to the Leisure Park.

Service 80 between Hull and Castle Hill Hospital has been renumbered as service 11A, which is very logical as it follows much of the same route as the 11. Personally I would have taken the opportunity to reroute the 11A to follow the 11's route in Cottingham; the 11A's route differences in the village are covered by East Yorkshire Buses. Maybe a good place to note that service 83, also following a similar route as the 11 and 11A/80, has become a 'closed door' service for Wilberforce College students, along with the 81, 82 and 85.

At an individual journey level, Monday to Friday the 1400 service 110 from Hull Paragon Interchange has been withdrawn, as has the Monday to Friday 1623 service 11 from Castle Hill Hospital, the later has ended in favour of the 1610 service 80 being retimed as a 1620 11A. There is a new later departure from Beverley Monday to Friday at 2325 on service 111, previous last service at 2242; the Saturday 2342 service 111 from Beverley is retimed to 2325.

Service 111 operates an hour later on Sundays, with the last departure from Hull Paragon Interchange at 1730 not 1630 (replacing the 1730 service 11 to Kingswood), and from Beverley at 1855 not 1755. Later on Sunday evenings, the 11 has gained a new 2130 journey from Hull Paragon Interchange, filling a 90 minute gap in the hourly evening service. On the negative side, the 2212 from Kingswood Retail Park to Paragon Interchange is withdrawn, leaving the last Sunday service back into Hull as the 2120 from Kingswood Leisure Park.

The 15 becomes a bit more unique.

Until 31st August, Stagecoach service 15 between Bilton Grange and Hull Paragon Interchange almost entirely overlapped other routes, either service 13 around Bilton Grange or multiple other services along Holderness Road. The only 'unique' section was the very short Diadem Grove in Bilton Grange, which is within walking distance of other stops. The main purposes of the 15 were to provide a fast link from Bilton Grange to Holderness Road Shops and Hull City Centre (as compared to the 13), to link Bilton Grange to parts of Holderness Road north of Southcoates Lane (e,g, East Park and Morrisons) and to form part of the wider Holderness Road service provision.

Since Stagecoach's service changes at the end of August, the above still applies, but not quite to the same extent. Rather than operating the same clockwise loop around Bilton Grange as the 13, the 15 now omits the southern most section of Barham Road and instead operates a slightly longer loop around parts of Staveley Road, Hopewell Road and Amethyst Road back to Barham Road. The section of Staveley Road is otherwise only served by hourly route 40 and the section of Hopewell Road now covered was previously unserved. Small change, but better coverage of East Hull and a slightly increased 'purpose' for the 15 - no bad thing as it hasn't recovered back to it's old Monday to Saturday daytime 15 minute frequency prior to the 2022 Stagecoach strikes, instead operating every 20 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes and half hourly Saturday daytimes.

East Yorkshire Tender Wins

East Yorkshire Buses took over a small number of East Riding of Yorkshire Council tendered services with effect from 31st August 2025.

79: Hull-Hedon. Three Monday to Friday journeys previously operated by Stagecoach at 0700 and 1600 from Hull and at 0739 from Hedon. All service 79 journeys are now operated by East Yorkshire.

173: Withernsea-Hedon-Hull. One Saturday 'shoppers' service each way previously operated by Stagecoach at 0930 from Withernsea and 1320 from Hull.

277: Hedon-Hull. One Monday to Friday journey previously operated by Stagecoach, departing Hedon at 1644. All service 277 journeys are now operated by East Yorkshire.

594: Fridaythorpe-Pocklington. One Tuesday 'shoppers' service each way previously operated by York Pullman at 0945 from Fridaythorpe and 1230 from Pocklington.

Pocklington to Askham Bar

Irregular East Yorkshire service 747 between Pocklington, Stamford Bridge and York was revised on 31st August, most notably with the introduction of a weekday peak extension to Askham Bar Tesco. The extension is designed to serve York College but appears to operate year round, so is it also intended to form part of a growing East Yorkshire presence along Tadcaster Road in York, given that East Yorkshire's tendered service 12 has gained extra short journeys here as well?

Monday to Friday the 0720 Pocklington to York Station is extended to Askham Bar, with the 0900 York to Pocklington starting back at Askham Bar. The 1115 Pocklington to York is retimed to 1135, enabling the withdrawal of the 1140 (1145 Thu) Pocklington to Full Sutton 'short'. As a result the 1240 York to Pocklington now operates at 1255, the 1400 Pocklington to York departs at 1410 and the 1525 York to Pocklington at 1535. A new 1617 from Full Sutton to Askham Bar is added to the timetable (omitting Murton), with the 1735 York to Pocklington becoming a 1720 Askham Bar to Pocklington. Finally the Friday 2000 York to Pocklington is replaced by a Monday to Friday 1935 York to Pocklington journey (omitting Murton, Yapham and Bishop Wilton). This extra journey Monday to Thursday gives Full Sutton, Fangfoss and Bolton residents a last departure from York 1 hour 55 minutes later than previously available - as such it is a very welcome addition to the timetable. Friday only journeys at 1840 from Pocklington to York and 2245 from York to Pocklington remain.

Saturdays have far fewer changes. The 1145 Pocklington to Full Sutton 'short' moves to 1200 and the 2000 York to Pocklington moves to 1940. Overall there is now even more slight variance between Monday to Friday and Saturdays than previously. From Pocklington there are departures at 0720, 1135, 1410 and 1840 (Fri) on weekdays, 0725, 1100, 1200 (to Full Sutton), 1400 and 1830 on Saturdays. From York Station it's 0900, 1255, 1535, 1740, 1935 and 2245 (Fri) Monday to Friday and on Saturdays it's 0900, 1235, 1530, 1735, 1940 and 2245. Some variation, especially at peak times, is understandable, but multiple relatively minor differences throughout the day isn't particularly user friendly. 

Sundays are no longer clockface three hourly. The 0930, 1230 and 1530 from Pocklington become 0925, 1230 and 1540 departures. Meanwhile the 1040, 1340 and 1640 from York become the 1040, 1350 and 1655.

Pocklington and Market Weighton gain a Selby link

From Monday 1st September, East Yorkshire Buses operated tendered service 1 between Holme on Spalding Moor and Selby was extended to start back in Pocklington, also additionally serving Hayton, Shiptonthorpe and Market Weighton. The 1 operates one journey each way Monday and Friday, effectively providing a Selby shoppers service, with a 1030 arrival at and 1300 departure from the North Yorkshire town. 

Presumably, at least during school holidays, the vehicle and driver previously had to run 'dead' from Pocklington to Holme, so the cost involved here may well be marginal - but in return, Pocklington, Hayton, Shiptonthorpe and Market Weighton gain a Selby shopping link, and the 1 hopefully gets some extra passengers to improve it's finances. 

Christmas and New Year Bus Services 2025/2026

Here is my annual summary of Christmas and New Year bus services across the Humber Region. It covers the following operators, but not their services outside the region:

• Arriva Yorkshire
• CallConnect
• East Yorkshire (see comments below)
• First South Yorkshire (see comments below)
• First York
• Grayscroft Coaches
• Hornsby Travel
• North Lincolnshire Council (Services 96/97/97A)
• PC Coaches
• Sweyne Coaches (Goole+Howden Hopper)
• Stagecoach
• Thornes Independent
• York Pullman

Sadly East Yorkshire Buses haven't produced their usual comprehensive summary listing all the 'exceptions' to the standard service pattern and I haven't got the time to go through all their timetables route-by-route. As such I can't offer the usual level of detail for them. Presumably it's a case of:

-Less than six day a week services operating as normal on the normal weekdays over Christmas and New Year

-Some extra early morning services.

-Friday and Saturday evening only services not operating Monday and Tuesdays where a Saturday service otherwise applies

I always say "Please check exact details before travelling as I have only summarised here, or for any occasions were publicity is incorrect, or I have made a mistake". That still stands, but is exceptionally important in the case of East Yorkshire Buses and also First South Yorkshire who have taken a similar approach.

If you have any information for other operators, or to correct any details listed below, please post a comment.

Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd December:

Predominantly normal services, with the following exceptions:

• East Yorkshire and First South Yorkshire will provide a Saturday service with some exceptions, please check with the operator for details.
• Stagecoach will operate a Saturday service on North East Lincolnshire services 7, 11 and 12. (Stagecoach's Grimsby pdf timetable states Saturday service on routes 1, 2, 6, 8, 20, 53, 250 and 251, but the Saturday service is identical to the Monday to Friday School Holiday service).
• Stagecoach service 255 (North Bransholme-Hull-Barton Wren Kitchens) will operate five journeys only, at 0700 from North Bransholme, 1705 from Hull and at 0850, 1750 and 2320 from Barton Wren Kitchens. I presume associated service 256 isn't operating, but the Stagecoach Hull pdf summary doesn't explicitly state this.
• North Lincolnshire Council service 96 (Barton-Brigg) will not operate the 1600 Barton-Brigg or 1710 Brigg-South Ferriby journeys.

It is interesting to see East Yorkshire and Stagecoach differ on service levels in Hull, they usually have the same 'base' provision but for two days Stagecoach will be a normal weekday service and East Yorkshire a Saturday service.

Christmas Eve:

Predominantly a Saturday service with an early finish between approximately 1700 and 2000, plus the following exceptions:

• Hornsby Travel, PC Coaches, Stagecoach's Scunthorpe services, Thornes and York Pullman will operate a normal Wednesday service with early finish.
• Stagecoach services 5/5M/5S/45 (Cleethorpes-Grimsby-Immingham), 9/10 (Waltham-Grimsby-Cleethorpes-Humberston), 11A (Hull-Castle Hill Hospital) and 20 (Hull Priory Park and Ride) will operate as normal. Afternoon 11A journeys replace similar timed service 11 journeys.
• Stagecoach will provide extra early morning journeys on selected services in Grimsby and Hull.
• Stagecoach Monday to Friday service 255 (North Bransholme-Hull-Barton Wren Kitchens) will operate four journeys only, at 0700 from North Bransholme, 1705 from Hull and at 0850 and 1750 from Barton Wren Kitchens. Associated service 256 will not operate.
• Stagecoach service 7M (North Bransholme-Hull-Melton) will operate four journeys only, at 0655 from Hull to Melton, 0820 North Bransholme to Melton, 1610 Melton to Hull and 1810 Melton to North Bransholme.
• Stagecoach service 16 (Hull-Siemens) will not operate the 0730 journey.
• North Lincolnshire Council service 96 (Barton-Brigg) will operate as normal except for the 1600 Barton-Brigg and 1710 Brigg-South Ferriby journeys.

Please check with East Yorkshire and First South Yorkshire for any exceptions to a standard Saturday service.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day:

No services.

Saturday 27th December:

Normal Saturday service, except for no evening service on Hornsby service 4 (Brigg-Scunthorpe).

Sunday 29th December:

Normal Sunday service.

Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December:

Predominantly a Saturday service, with the following exceptions:

• Hornsby Travel, North Lincolnshire Council, PC Coaches, Stagecoach's Scunthorpe services and Thornes will operate a normal service.
• Stagecoach services 5/5M/5S/45 (Cleethorpes-Grimsby-Immingham), 7M (North Bransholme-Melton), 9/10 (Waltham-Grimsby-Cleethorpes-Humberston), 11A (Hull-Castle Hill Hospital) and 20 (Hull Priory Park and Ride) will operate as normal on both days, as will service 398 (Belton-Gainsborough) on Tuesday 30th December only. Afternoon 11A journeys replace similar timed service 11 journeys.
• Stagecoach will provide extra early morning journeys on selected services in Grimsby and Hull.
• Stagecoach Monday to Friday service 255 (North Bransholme-Hull-Barton Wren Kitchens) will operate four journeys only, at 0700 from North Bransholme, 1705 from Hull and at 0850 and 1750 from Barton Wren Kitchens. Associated service 256 will not operate.
• Stagecoach service 16 (Hull-Siemens) will not operate the 0730 journey.
• Grayscroft service 25 (Market Rasen-Grimsby) will operate as normal on Tuesday 30th December. For the avoidance of doubt Tuesday only service 28 (Sandilands-Grimsby) will not operate this week.
• North Lincolnshire Council service 96 (Barton-Brigg) will not operate the 1600 Barton-Brigg or 1710 Brigg-South Ferriby journeys.

Please check with East Yorkshire and First South Yorkshire for any exceptions to a standard Saturday service.

New Years Eve:

Predominantly a Saturday service with an early finish between approximately 1700 and 2000, plus the following exceptions:

• Hornsby Travel, PC Coaches, Stagecoach's Scunthorpe services and Thornes will operate a normal Wednesday service with early finish.
• Stagecoach services 5/5M/5S/45 (Cleethorpes-Grimsby-Immingham), 9/10 (Waltham-Grimsby-Cleethorpes-Humberston), 11A (Hull-Castle Hill Hospital) and 20 (Hull Priory Park and Ride) will operate as normal. Afternoon 11A journeys replace similar timed service 11 journeys.
• Stagecoach will provide extra early morning journeys on selected services in Grimsby and Hull.
• Stagecoach Monday to Friday service 255 (North Bransholme-Hull-Barton Wren Kitchens) will operate four journeys only, at 0700 from North Bransholme, 1705 from Hull and at 0850 and 1750 from Barton Wren Kitchens. Associated service 256 will not operate.
• Stagecoach service 7M (North Bransholme-Hull-Melton) will operate four journeys only, at 0655 from Hull to Melton, 0820 North Bransholme to Melton, 1610 Melton to Hull and 1810 Melton to North Bransholme.
• Stagecoach service 16 (Hull-Siemens) will not operate the 0730 journey.
• North Lincolnshire Council service 96 (Barton-Brigg) will operate as normal except for the 1600 Barton-Brigg and 1710 Brigg-South Ferriby journeys.

Please check with East Yorkshire and First South Yorkshire for any exceptions to a standard Saturday service.

New Years Day:

No services (train services will be operating however, in many instances to a normal Thursday timetable apart from early morning services and engineering works related disruption).

Friday 2nd January:

Predominantly a Saturday service, with the following exceptions:

• CallConnect, Grayscroft Coaches, Hornsby Travel, North Lincolnshire Council, PC Coaches, Stagecoach's Scunthorpe services, Thornes and York Pullman will operate a normal Friday service.
• Stagecoach services 5/5M/5S/45 (Cleethorpes-Grimsby-Immingham), 7M (North Bransholme-Melton), 9/10 (Waltham-Grimsby-Cleethorpes-Humberston), 11A (Hull-Castle Hill Hospital), 20 (Hull Priory Park and Ride), 255 (North Bransholme-Barton Wren Kitchens) and 398 (Belton-Gainsborough) will operate as normal. Afternoon 11A journeys replace similar timed service 11 journeys. Presumably the 256 also operates as normal if the 255 does, but again not explicitly mentioned in the Stagecoach Hull Christmas pdf,
• Stagecoach will provide extra early morning journeys on selected services in Grimsby and Hull.
• Stagecoach Monday to Friday service 255 (North Bransholme-Hull-Barton Wren Kitchens) will operate four journeys only, at 0700 from North Bransholme, 1705 from Hull and at 0850 and 1750 from Barton Wren Kitchens. Associated service 256 will not operate.
• Stagecoach service 16 (Hull-Siemens) will not operate the 0730 journey.

Please check with East Yorkshire and First South Yorkshire for any exceptions to a standard Saturday service.

Saturday 3rd January:

Back to Normal

Local Links in Beverley Improved

Local links within Beverley were improved with East Yorkshire's 31st August service changes.

Service 43 between Hull, Beverley Town Centre and Molescroft gained a short diversion via Copandale Road and Scrubwood Lane on journeys from Hull and Beverley, replacing service 526 along these roads. For Copandale Road and Scrubwood Lane, that has meant a service increase from three journeys per day Monday to Saturday, to hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes. A predecessor of the 43, service 122, also used to serve Copandale Road and Scrubwood Lane (in both directions?).

In turn service 526 now operates direct from Beverley Bus Station to Norwood, slightly speeding up journeys for passengers on the remainder of the route.

Temporary Cuts Partly Restored

On 23rd February, East Yorkshire Buses introduced "temporary" frequency cuts to certain routes in the Hull area, due to staff and parts shortages. Service Changes on 31st August partly reversed those reductions.

Service 44 between Hull Paragon Interchange and Cottingham Road remains withdrawn except for two Monday to Saturday evening journeys. Service 45 however between Hull Paragon Interchange, Cottingham Road, Cottingham and Castle Hill Hospital was increased Monday to Saturday daytimes from every half hour to every 20 minutes. On the combined section of route, the 44/45 frequency was every 10 minutes Monday to Friday daytimes pre-23rd February, was reduced to every half hour and since 31st August has become every 20 minutes. Saturday daytimes were every 15 minutes pre-23rd February, then went half hourly and are now every 20 minutes. From the Cottingham Road/Hall Road roundabout to Castle Hill Hospital, the frequency is now higher than before the "temporary" cuts.

Route 51 from Hull Paragon Interchange to Wymersley Road, as well as the 56 from Asda Bilton to Castle Hill Hospital and the 57 from Asda Bilton to Hessle had their Saturday daytime reductions from every 20 minutes to half hourly reversed in full. 

Not so lucky though is the 58 from Hull Paragon Interchange to Hessle which remains at it's reduced Monday to Saturday daytime frequency of every 20 minutes, down from every 15 minutes pre-23rd February.

Are the 44/45 and 58 cuts no longer temporary? Certainly on the 44/45 with the frequency increase to Castle Hill Hospital, it's unlikely the pre-23rd February service pattern will ever return in it's exact same format.

Later Buses For Hornsea

From Monday 1st September, the previous Friday and Saturday only evening journeys on service 25 between Beverley and Hornsea additionally started to operate Monday to Thursday as well. The extra services comprise the 2105 and 2340 from Beverley to Hornsea and the 2150 from Hornsea to Beverley. Previously the last service from Beverley to Hornsea was at 1905 Monday to Thursday and from Hornsea at 1945 (with a later 2020 service 24 over part of the 25 route as far as Leven).

From Bridlington to Castle Hill Hospital

Utilising Bus Service Improvement Plan funding over the past two years, services between Bridlington, Driffield and Beverley - operated by East Yorkshire Buses - have been slowly enhanced, from once to twice an hour for most of the day on Saturdays, to half hourly Monday to Friday daytimes in the 2024 Summer School Holidays and on Monday to Friday year round at the start and end of the day. A big further step forward came on 20th July, again utilising East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Bus Service Improvement Plan allocation.

New service 141 was introduced between Bridlington and Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham. The 141 runs as per the main service 41 from Bridlington to Beverley Bus Station and then along Norwood. It also follows the 41 between Bridlington and Hull along Swinemoor Lane in Beverley, albeit with a diversion into the East Riding Community Hospital. The 141 then serves Lidl and uses Minster Way to Morrisons before operating via the A164 to Cottingham, where it serves Harland Way and Cottingham Green in the village centre before terminating at Castle Hill Hospital.

Service 141 operates hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes, mostly off peak. Notably the first arrival at Castle Hill Hospital Monday to Friday is not until 0945. On Saturdays the service does not operate between Beverley Morrisons and Castle Hill Hospital, reducing the vehicle requirement by 1. Between Bridlington and Beverley the 41 and 141 are perfectly co-ordinated to provide a half hourly service and in the process replacing the previous Saturday daytime extra services on route 41. Connections are available at Beverley onto service 43 to/from Hull.

From a 'big picture' perspective I 'get' the 141 - consistent half hourly service between Bridlington and Beverley six days a week, new links from Bridlington, Driffield and various villages to Castle Hill Hospital, a big improvement to services between Beverley, Cottingham and Castle Hill Hospital via the A164, plus improved access to supermarkets. However two things make me unconvinced about the 'details'. Firstly it takes a convoluted route in Beverley. Are links to Lidl anything more than a 'nice to have'? Could the 41 not divert into the East Riding Community Hospital if there is notable demand from north of Beverley? It's like a Beverley Town Circular has been introduced into the middle of the service. Secondly, that late first arrival at Castle Hill Hospital makes the service useless for any pre-1000 appointments, and for almost all staff commuting unless used in conjunction with other services.

Turning to service 41 and the big improvement was Monday to Thursday evenings, were the Friday and Saturday evening timetable now applies six days a week. In practice that meant a 1955 Bridlington to Hull replacing a 2105 Beverley to Hull, the 2150 Hull to Beverley being replaced by a 2135 Hull to Nafferton (north of Driffield), a new 2252 Nafferton to Beverley and a new 2330 Beverley to Bridlington Morrisons. The Friday and Saturday 2330 from Beverley to Driffield was extended to Bridlington Morrisons at the same time.

Elsewhere on the 41, Monday to Friday the 0720 Hull to Beverley and 0813 Beverley to Bridlington were merged into a 0710 Hull to Bridlington, whilst the 0855 Beverley to Bridlington was cutback to a 0908 Driffield to Bridlington service. From Bridlington the 0610 to Hull became an 0600 Bridlington to Beverley and a 0705 Beverley to Hull. 

On Saturdays the 0630 Hull to Bridlington was split at Beverley, but the 0730 Hull to Beverley and 0811 Beverley to Bridlington were merged into a through service. A new 0841 Beverley to Bridlington was added. The 1702 from Hull to Bridlington was withdrawn, an 'extra' over and above the 'base' hourly service. A new 1930 from Beverley to Bridlington was introduced, filling an approximately two hour gap. In the opposite direction, new 1755 Bridlington to Beverley and 1900 Beverley to Hull journeys commenced. The 1850 Bridlington to Hull became a 1825 Bridlington to Beverley and 2000 Beverley to Hull.

Further changes were made on 31st August 2025. The Monday to Friday 41 0530 and 0600 Hull to Beverley services were withdrawn, partially replaced by a new 0615 Hull to Beverley journey on service 43. The 0600 from Bridlington to Beverley and 0705 Beverley to Hull were remerged into a through service 41. A new 0850 Nafferton to Beverley journey on service 141 commenced, with the 0930 Driffield to Castle Hill Hospital extended to start back in Bridlington. The 1450 service 41 from Bridlington to Beverley became a 1448 service 141 from Bridlington to Nafferton. The 1945 from Beverley to Hull was replaced by a 1950 journey on service 43.

On Saturdays the 0630 from Hull to Beverley has been withdrawn and the 0730 from Hull to Bridlington now starts in Beverley at 0806. The 1835 from Hull to Beverley and 1930 from Beverley to Bridlington were merged into a through service. In the opposite direction, the 0655, 1900 and 2000 41's from Beverley to Hull become 0700, 1900 and 2000 service 43's. Sunday 'short' service 41's between Hull and Beverley also become service 43's.

Can't help but feel the start and end of the day service now very much needs some stability. Presumably these amendments have been largely linked to swapping workings between Hull and Bridlington depots? 

Double Changes for the X45/X46/X47

Over the Summer, East Yorkshire made two sets of changes to their X45/X46/X47 services into York.

Starting with the 20th July changes, and there were three main alterations. Firstly the X45 between Market Weighton, Pocklington and York was extended to start back in Driffield on most journeys, incorporating service 145 between Driffield and Market Weighton and continuing to offer an hourly frequency Monday to Saturday daytimes. Services 145 and X45 were previously interworked offering through journeys at Market Weighton, so in reality this change was just making through working more obvious to passengers, and simplifying the network. The 145's single Market Weighton to Bridlington journey in the Monday to Friday evening peak remains as a X45.

Secondly, using Bus Service Improvement Plan funding, the Friday and Saturday evening only journeys on service X47 between Hull, Beverley, Market Weighton, Pocklington and York started operating on a Monday to Saturday basis. Monday to Thursday from Hull that meant a last departure to York at 2115 rather than 1915, plus a 2250 to Pocklington. From York the last departure to Hull became 2210 rather than 2110, plus an additional 2310 to Pocklington.

Thirdly the routes of the X45, X46 and X47 were amended in York City Centre. In September 2021, the X46 and X47 were amended to operate via James Street and Stonebow, due to congestion at the old Piccadilly stop, a route also followed by the X45 upon it's introduction. Now it's back to past, as the three services are routed via Walmgate to Piccadilly before continuing to/from York Station.

More significant changes came at the end of school Summer holidays on 31st August. Monday to Saturday daytimes the service pattern was amended from:

-1 X45 per hour Driffield-Market Weighton-Pocklington-Dunnington-York

-1 X46 per hour Hull-Beverley-Market Weighton-Pocklington-York

-1 X47 per hour Hull-Beverley-Market Weighton-Pocklington-Wilberfoss-York

Every 20 minutes Market Weighton-Pocklington-York, with a 20-40 minute interval Hull-Market Weighton

To:

1 X45 per hour Driffield-Market Weighton-Pocklington-Wilberfoss-York

1 X45 per hour Pocklington-Wilberfoss-York (these generally start/finish at The Balk in eastern Pocklington - an area with a lot of house building - providing maximum coverage of the town).

2 X46 per hour Hull-Beverley-Market Weighton-Pocklington-Dunnington-York

Every 15 minutes Pocklington to York and every half hour from Hull and Beverley to Market Weighton, Pocklington and York. Market Weighton to Pocklington and York is on a 15-15-30 minute interval.

This is yet further significant growth between Pocklington and York, just 10 months after the corridor went from every half hour to every 20 minutes. Wilberfoss and Barmby Moor get a doubled frequency from hourly to half hourly, as does the East Yorkshire operated service to Dunnington. 

There are reductions into Hull on a Saturday morning, albeit before the main shopping hours. The first arrival is now at 0910 rather than 0748 - earlier services from Beverley into Hull operate on other routes. The 0915 Beverley to Hull is withdrawn and the 0902 Pocklington to Hull truncated to a 0945 Beverley to Hull.

The X47 no longer operates Monday to Saturday daytimes. Two morning peak journeys into York continue, one from Market Weighton and one from Pocklington, serving both Wilberfoss and Dunnington.

Monday to Saturday evenings see fewer alterations. The X47 continues to operate and as per the morning peak, serves both Wilberfoss and Dunnington. The last departure from York, now slightly later at 2320 extends from Pocklington to Market Weighton, giving a 70 minute later last service than previously available. The 2250 from Hull to Pocklington now operates at 2215.

Friday and Saturday evening only variations also returned, with two new York to Dunnington and return X46 'shorts' at 2050 and 2150 from York, and 2120 and 2220 from Dunnington. East Yorkshire now offer an approximately half hourly service from York to Dunnington all day until 2220 Friday and Saturday (plus the later 2320). These evening journeys appear to be interworked with the Friday and Saturday evening only service on the 747.

On Sundays the corridor goes from hourly daytime Hull to York alternating between the X46 and X47, to half hourly daytime Hull to York (i.e. the same frequency as Monday to Saturday), still alternating between the X46 and X47. This means that East Yorkshire are now serving Dunnington on Sundays with the X46. On Sunday's however the X47 does not serve Dunnington, sticking to it's old route via Wilberfoss 'only' - a bit 'messy' to have a different route one day of the week, but serving Dunnington would have a time penalty, and a Sunday only service number would also add complexity.

Overall more impressive growth from East Yorkshire on this corridor. However from Stamford Bridge's perspective, have to hope that the East Yorkshire growth in Dunnington isn't adversely impacting First's route 10 between Stamford Bridge, Dunnington and York too much. There is a little bit of competition built into these developments amongst the genuine growth.

Monday to Saturday services return to Ellerker

The village of Ellerker in the East Riding of Yorkshire regained a six day a week bus service penetrating the village (as opposed to serving the outskirts) on Monday 21st July. The Brough/Elloughton/South Cave local service 558 - operated by East Yorkshire Buses - was diverted via Ellerker on it's three South Cave journeys; these operate as an Elloughton-Ellerker-South Cave-Elloughton loop, before and after providing links around Elloughton and Brough. 

It is worth noting however that whilst three journeys are provided, Ellerker passengers effectively only have one service into Brough, and once service back, able to spend 65 minutes shopping at Brough Aldi, or slightly longer at Morrisons (assuming passengers alight/board on Elloughton Road or Skillings Lane). There is a bit more flexibility on a Wednesday and Saturday, thanks to the afternoon service on route 143 providing an alternative later return option from Brough to Ellerker.

Whilst there might not be much flexibility provided for Ellerker passengers, it's better than just the 143, and the 558 serving the village can be achieved in marginal time.

Hull to Louth

Two of the main longer distance bus services from Grimsby got some 'love' on Sunday 1st June, service 51 to Louth and service 250 to Hull via Barton. 

One of the main elements to the changes was to interwork the 51 and 250 and to formally promote this to the public as a through/same bus Hull to Louth service. On one hand this was a rather 'risky' move, with the risk of delays in Hull impacting services as far away as Louth, and vice versa. However I do wonder if the journey time of each route played a part in the interworking decision? Grimsby to Hull can be done as a four hour round trip, but with little recovery time. Grimsby to Louth is around a two and half hour trip. Combine the two and there is a seven hour round trip time with sensible layover. The interworking means that as well as Hull access from the 51 route, the 250 route gains a link to Grimsby Hospital and Louth.

For a brief historical diversion, this isn't the first time Louth and Hull have been linked. Lincolnshire Road Car's X21 in the 1990's provided such a connection. From a June 1993 Humberside County Council timetable there were five journeys each way Monday to Saturday on the X21 between Cleethorpes and Hull via Grimsby, Immingham and Barton, with one starting back in Louth, operating via Grimsby to Cleethorpes then as per the main route, so serving Grimsby twice in each direction. The 0740 from Louth took three hours to reach Hull, and the 1555 from Hull got back into Louth for 1840. Today the 0745 from Louth reaches Hull at 1050 without serving Cleethorpes, and the 1600 from Hull reaches Louth at 1900, again without serving Cleethorpes.

Back to 2025 and the 51 remained hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes with the new interworking. The first arrival into Louth moves from 0655 to 0630 and the first arrival into Grimsby is at 0753 rather than 0803. Last departure from Grimsby is slightly later at 1840 rather than 1815, and from Louth at 2000 rather than 1930.

The bigger change came to the 250, which went from every 90 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes back to hourly. A very welcome return after cuts in 2023 from hourly to 'hourly with some 90 minute gaps' and then in 2024 to every 90 minutes. The 0550 from Grimsby to Hull that still used the old route via Great Limber and the A15 became a 0515 service via the main route through Ulceby and Barrow. Weekday evening peak services to Hull no longer divert into Wren Kitchens at Barton, but still serve Falkland Way outside the factory. Last departure from Grimsby became 1830 rather than 1750, and from Hull became 2030 rather than 1945. 

The other big improvement was the addition of a two hourly Sunday service to both the 51 and 250. This provided a new Sunday service for Barrow, Thornton Curtis, Wootton, Ulceby, Brocklesby, Keelby, Laceby, Holton Le Clay, North Thoresby, Ludborough, Utterby, Fotherby and Louth, as well as doubling the Sunday service between Barton and Hull from two hourly to once an hour.

Not worth it's own post, but Stagecoach withdrew the Monday to Friday 2235 255 from Hull to Barton Wren Kitchens at the same time; service 350 provides departures from Hull to Barton at 2150 and 2300, so disappointing but not a massive loss.

Finally, the 51 was renumbered as service 251 on 31st August. The 51 had been a longstanding number for the Grimsby to Louth service. My timetable collection shows it was the 551 in 1986 but the Lincolnshire Road Car service had become the 51 by 1989 (Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport also had a service 24 around this time). If the 251 sounds familiar, it was used in the late 90's/early 00's for the Winter Sunday rail replacement service between Cleethorpes and Barton.

Reductions to the 11 and 12 in North East Lincolnshire

Stagecoach services 11 and 12 in North East Lincolnshire were revised on 1st June. Whilst there are some positives, overall it's a cutback. Previously service 11 operated hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes between Grimsby Riverhead Exchange and Waltham via the Grange Estate and Morrisons, whilst service 12 linked Bradley Park and Waltham via Grange Estate, Grimsby Riverhead Exchange, Cleethorpes and New Waltham Monday to Saturday hourly, primarily off peak only.

Service 11 remains operating between Riverhead Exchange and Waltham via the Grange Estate, but now serves Bradley Park instead of Morrisons. The service remains hourly, but the Monday to Saturday morning peak and Monday to Friday afternoon service has been cutback. From Waltham, rather than a departure every 60-70 minutes in the morning peak, there is now a gap between 0640 and 0855. Monday to Friday there is now a gap in departures from Grimsby between 1310 and 1715 and from Waltham between 1355 and 1745.

The section of service 12 between Bradley Park and Grimsby has been withdrawn, replaced by the revised service 11 in Bradley Park - which reinstates earlier and later journeys to Bradley Park but reduces the Monday to Saturday morning/early afternoon frequency between the Grange Estate and Grimsby Town Centre from half hourly combined to hourly. Service 11 and 12 are advertised as through/no change of bus required services at Grimsby Riverhead Exchange, maintaining same bus links to Cleethorpes. Otherwise service 12 is little changed. Monday to Friday the 1427 Grimsby to Waltham, retimed to 1430, now terminates short in New Waltham. There is now a later last departure from Waltham on Saturdays, at 1525, previously 1405.

Gradually Getting Better

Stagecoach North East Lincolnshire service 4 received some small enhancements from 1st June, and will receive a further small improvement next week.

As part of the 1st June changes, additional Laceby extensions were added to the core Cleethorpes-Grimsby-Laceby Road Morrisons service. Monday to Friday the 1630 Cleethorpes to Morrisons was extended to Laceby, with the 1730 Morrisons to Cleethorpes now starting back in Laceby. The Monday to Saturday evening extensions to Laceby were also improved. Rather than just receiving limited early and late evening extenions, into but not outbound from the village, service 4 now extends to and from Laceby approximately hourly service all evening. On Saturday mornings the 0705 Morrisons to Cleethorpes was also extended back to start in Laceby, filling a 70 minute gap in service from the village.

A full Laceby to Grimsby summary timetable is available on the Humber Transport Summary Timetable page.

Then from Monday 1st September, a new Monday to Saturday 0435 from Cleethorpes to Morrisons will commence, an hour earlier than the previous first service.

Blast from the Past

Sunday 1st June saw the return of historic route number 45 between Immingham, Grimsby and Cleethorpes as part of a relatively small but very positive service enhancement. Stagecoach's 45 was renumbered as the 5 on 1st September 2014 to fit in with a wider renumbering scheme in North East Lincolnshire, but is now back alongside the 5 which continues to operate Monday to Saturday daytimes.

Daily evenings the 5 had been operating between Immingham and Grimsby every hour, with a Sunday daytime extension to Hewitts Circus via Ladysmith Road and Humberston Road, meaning that Humberston Road between Weelsby Road and Hewitts Circus had an hourly service Sundays compared to three buses each way Monday to Saturday. When introduced I speculated that operational reasons were behind this, enabling interworking with the 10.

Now the 45 replaces the 5 Monday to Saturday evenings and all day Sunday, operating hourly at all times between Immingham, Grimsby, Ladysmith Road, Clee Road and Cleethorpes Pier. This provides a new evening link from Immingham, Stallingborough, Healing, Wybers Wood and the Willows Estate to Cleethorpes as well as a new evening service for Ladysmith Road and Clee Road. Sunday daytimes, Immingham, Stallingborough and Healing regain a Cleethorpes service, whilst the frequency from the Willows Estate and Ladysmith Road to Cleethorpes and along Clee Road is doubled from once per hour on the 6, to twice per hour across the 6 and 45 (albeit unfortunately at a 15-45 minute interval). 

It is a nice nod to history that the 45 number has returned. However it is out of place compared to the main local routes within North East Lincolnshire being numbered in the 1-12 range, and the only exceptions being the 'also low numbered' 17 and 20. In reality the 45 is the 5 extended to Cleethorpes. There is an argument that using the 5 number could be confusing as one weekday morning service operates from Humberston, Cleethorpes and Grimsby to Immingham via Grimsby Road and Cleethorpe Road rather than Clee Road and Ladysmith Road, although that particular journey is a 5M not a 5.

Improved Service 9

Stagecoach North East Lincolnshire service 9 between Waltham, Grimsby, Cleethorpes and the North Sea Lane terminus (not actually used a terminus these days) gained an hourly Monday to Saturday evening and Sunday daytime service on Sunday 1st June. Unlike the Monday to Saturday daytime service 9 which extends to Hewitts Circus (Tesco Extra), the new evening and Sunday service 9 extends beyond North Sea Lane to the nearby Haven Cleethorpes Beach Holiday Park, supplementing seasonal open top service 17.

Whilst good news for holidaymakers, it's was also good news for other passengers as the Monday to Saturday evening and Sunday daytime frequency on associated route 10 between Waltham and Hewitts Circus was effectively doubled from hourly to half hourly by this improvement, since the 10 shares the vast majority of it's route with service 9, which has been timed at even intervals with the 10. 

Stagecoach's 31st August 2025 Grimsby bus map has a note that the evening and Sunday service to the Haven Holiday Park operates between 1st March and 30th November only, and that Hewitts Circus is not served by the 9 on evenings and Sundays between 1st March and 30th November. My inference from that is that the evening and Sunday 9 will serve Hewitts Circus in December, January and February. I presume Haven is closed during these three months? 

More Buses to Victor Street, Less to Wybers Wood

Stagecoach revised their 1, 2 and 20 services in Grimsby on 1st June. The 'core' remains the 1 and 2 each operating hourly Monday to Saturday daytimes between Grimsby Riverhead Exchange and the Europarc Industrial Estate via the West Marsh area, the 1 serving Lord Street and the 2 Corporation Road.

Service 1 however lost it's extension beyond Europarc to Wybers Wood and instead gained an extension beyond Riverhead Exchange to Victor Street via Victoria Street (Stagecoach Depot) and Cleethorpe Road. Services 1 and 2 now operate as a circular at Victor Street, rather than the 2 performing a short loop via Riby Street to terminate. With the 1 and 2 now sharing start and end points, departures from Riverhead Exchange to Europarc move from a 20-40 minute interval to a 28-32 minute interval between services.

The 20 continues to operate a limited Monday to Saturday early morning and evening service between Cleethorpes, Grimsby Riverhead Exchange, Corporation Road, Europarc and Wybers Wood, but gained a new diversion away from part of the A180 to serve industrial areas along Moody Lane and Gilbey Road. For a small time penalty, the 20 becomes a little more useful.

Service 20 also gained Sunday and Bank Holiday journeys operating at similar times to the Monday to Saturday service - anyone who wants to travel from Cleethorpes to Grimsby at 0500 on a Sunday morning can now do so! Seriously though, if there are factories on Europarc operating seven days a week, then a six days a week bus service isn't very attractive. Whether the 20 actually aligns with Sunday shift patterns I don't know, lets hope it does.

Slightly Quicker to Lincoln - but not all good news

As part of Stagecoach's service changes in North East Lincolnshire on 1st June, most journeys on Monday to Saturday service 53 between Grimsby and Lincoln were re-routed within Grimsby to provide a more direct routing. Previously, with the exception of the first morning morning departure, all service 53 journeys arrived into and departed Grimsby Town Centre via Hainton Avenue and Weelsby Road to Fryston Corner (Grimsby Institute). Now, with the exception of one journey each way on schooldays, all services operate from Grimsby Town Centre to Fryston Corner via Bargate.

The positive side to this is reduced journey times. Previously off-peak Laceby Market Place to Grimsby Riverhead Exchange was timed for 25 minutes, now Laceby Caistor Road to Grimsby Riverhead Exchange is timed for 17 minutes off peak.

On the other hand, the section of Weelsby Road between Hainton Avenue and Fryston Corner is now only served by buses on schooldays. Hainton Avenue retains an hourly Monday to Saturday off-peak service with route 7.

New Goole + Howden Hopper Timetable

As expected, the Sweyne Coaches operated Goole+Howden Hopper/J36 service received a revised timetable recently, with the start date for the amended provision being Wednesday 11th June - exceptionally unusual for a Monday to Saturday service to be amended midweek.

Out goes the frequency of every 25-50 minutes with occasional longer gaps, and in comes a new timetable with services every half hour off peak daytimes (except for a lunch break), approximately hourly at peak times and every two hours in the evening. I haven't had chance to review how this impacts rail connections, but certainly for local travel, it's a much more simple and memorable offering. 

The aim of the new timetable is to reduce the reliance on public subsidy, so hopefully the revised timetable as well as the fare increase introduced at the same time will help achieve that.

Revised timetable.

Original Blog Post on the service introduction in May 2024.

Another tender for 21 Transport

This week (starting on Tuesday 6th May), 21 Transport have taken over the North Lincolnshire Council tendered service 260 between Barton and Immingham from Stagecoach, along with the interworked 254 Barton Town Schools Service. There is no change to the timetable, which operates Monday to Saturday daytimes.

The 260 was launched around 2003/2004 time and was initially operated by North Lincolnshire Council 'in house'. Stagecoach took over from 31st January 2011 until Saturday 3rd May 2025. Between 2017 and 2020 the Saturday service was run as a CallConnect timetabled service, operated by Hornsby Travel.

This is 21 Transport's second tendered public bus service in North Lincolnshire, joining service 60.

Hull returns to the Moorsbus Network

As expected, Hull and East Yorkshire have returned to the Moorsbus network for the first time in a number of years - though many of the 'in between' years had the East Yorkshre Buses Moors Explorer route which was a commercial service rather than a contracted Moorsbus operation. The Moorsbus M1 started today - 4th May - and operates every Sunday and Bank Holiday until 28th September between Hull and Pickering. East Yorkshire Buses are the operator.

In detail the M1 operates from Hull Paragon Interchange via Hull University, Cottingham, Beverley, Leconfield, Hutton Cranswick, Driffield, Wetwang, North Grimston, Norton, Malton and Eden Camp. Historically Moorbuses from Hull, as well as the Moors Explorer, operated direct from Beverley to Wetwang via Bainton. The M1 departs Hull at 0900 and Pickering at 1715, with the driver and vehicle operating between Pickering and Danby during the day.

Changes Coming to the Goole + Howden Hopper

Changes are coming in the future to the Goole + Howden Hopper/J36 service between Goole and Howden, currently operated by Sweyne Coaches. I have reposted the full press release from the Goole Town Deal below which explains their reasoning, though one thing notably missing is an exact date for a revised timetable to be introduced. 

As the Goole Town Deal Board continues to explore the potential to extend the hugely popular Goole + Howden Hopper bus service beyond its initial pilot phase, it has agreed to introduce a revised timetable and increase fares in a bid to make it less reliant on public subsidy.

Almost a year on from the launch of the Goole + Howden Hopper, the Goole Town Deal team has been gathering feedback from local communities to determine how well the bus service is being used, what benefits it brings and how people feel about it. Almost 800 people took the opportunity to share their views as part of a recent consultation exercise and this feedback has been used to develop a revised timetable that incorporates an additional stop at the Ozone Business Park near Howden, where Yara UK’s new £50 million fertiliser factory will open later this year, and another opposite the Tesco supermarket in Goole. Further changes have been made to better align the timetable with train services at both Goole and Howden Stations, and, because there’s lower demand for the service on weekday evenings, only one of the two Goole + Howden Hopper buses will run at those times. This will also make it easier for the buses to be serviced and maintained.

According to the survey results, a large majority of respondents would be willing to pay higher fares to ensure that the service can continue. Therefore, the Goole Town Deal Board has agreed to increase the fare for a single journey from £1 to £2, and the cost of a weekly ticket from £5 to £7. Both fees will still be well below the national bus fare cap of £3 per journey. The timetable and fare changes will be implemented  in due course, following a six-week statutory notice period.

Phil Jones, Chair of the Goole Town Deal Board, explained: “The Goole + Howden Hopper service is currently operating as a pilot project but has proved incredibly popular, with between 5,000 and 6,000 journeys being made each month. Our goal is to ensure that it’s able to continue beyond the lifespan of Goole Town Deal. If we achieve that, there could also be potential to expand the service because the survey showed that there’s a huge appetite for more villages and stops to be served by the Hopper. In the short-term, we’ve tried to accommodate some of these requests for additional stops within the existing route by making changes to the timetable.

“As a Board, we allocated £550,000 of revenue funding to set up the Goole + Howden Hopper service and operate it during the 2024/25 and 2025/26 financial years. With the support of East Riding of Yorkshire Council officers, a further £100,000 of match-funding was also secured. 

“We don’t want the service to simply stop when that funding runs out next year, so we’re exploring alternative sources of funding for the future. However, we’ve been advised that the success of any funding bids that we submit would largely depend on the service becoming less reliant on public subsidy. This means that we need to carefully balance the need to retain an affordable and effective transport service for local people with the need to make the service more self-sustaining so that external funders would look upon it more favourably. We’ll then be able gather more evidence about how it’s used, with a view to working towards it becoming a commercially viable service that local bus operators would be interested in tendering for, which could also potentially be replicated in other areas where we know there’s demand.”

Phil added: “We’re very grateful to everyone who took the time to respond to our survey. It’s clear that people want the Hopper to continue and are willing to pay higher fares to make that happen. We hope that the timetable and fare changes that we’ve agreed will take us one step nearer to securing the longer-term future of the service.”

Launched in May 2024, the Goole + Howden Hopper is funded by Goole Town Deal as part of the £2.4 million Station Hub project, which aims to support Goole’s employment growth and an anticipated increase in the number of visitors to the town centre by creating an enhanced transport hub and arrival/departure experience at Goole Station and connecting with Howden.  It’s also supported by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, whose officers have played a key role in its development. The Goole + Howden Hopper connects Goole Station with major employment sites on the outskirts of town and with Howden Station, which offers regular train services to York, Leeds and beyond, as well as London. The aim is to make people’s onward journeys from Goole Station easier, provide local people with low-cost transport to key employment sites and make the town more attractive to potential investors by improving transport connections for those travelling from major cities across the North of England and as far afield as London.

Two Goole Town Deal-branded buses, each of which seats 19 people, provide the service and they’re operated by local firm Sweyne Coaches. 

 Last year's blog on the service launch is available here.

Back to once a week

Last April the Goole GoFar operated 358 'shopper' route between Holme on Spalding Moor and Goole gained a Wednesday service in addition to it's existing Tuesday service. As off April 1st 2025, the route has been reduced back to Tuesday only.

Coastal Positives and Negatives

For most of the past few years, East Yorkshire's Bridlington to Scarborough via Filey corridor has comprised:

-A year round hourly daily service 12

-An hourly daily 'full route' service 13 from early March to early November

-An hourly daily 'short' service 13 from Filey to Scarborough between early March and early November

In Summer 2023 the Filey 'shorts' were dropped on Sundays, and I seem to recall they were also dropped early on Monday to Saturdays last year at the end of August. This wasn't advertised at the start of the season, so possibly weather related?

Summer 2025 sees more cutbacks 'around the edges'. No seasonal uplifts commenced until Saturday 5th April, a month later than usual. In addition the Monday to Saturday Filey shorts do not commence until Saturday 24th May, and again finish at the end of August.

On a positive note, when the Filey shorts recommence, the first two shorts into Scarborough, and the last two from Scarborough are extended from/to Primrose Valley Holiday Village south of Filey. The 1730 and 1825 from Filey to Scarborough are withdrawn to help facilitate this.

In addition the 2040 and 2140 service 13's from Scarborough to Bridlington and the 2200 service 13 from Bridlington to Scarborough, previously Friday and Saturday only during the Summer, gain a Monday to Thursday service between 27th May and 29th August only. 

On service 14 between Bridlington and Flamborough, the Summer early/mid evening service is operating Monday to Saturday rather than Friday and Saturday only this year. In addition, whilst last year the evening service finished at the end of August, this year no end date has been advertised.

Saturdays to Sledmere

Service 535 between Driffield and Sledmere gained a Saturday service last week (19th April - Easter Saturday), funded by East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Bus Service Improvement Plan allocation. The 535 was previously a Tuesday and Thursday only 'shopper' service operated by East Hull Community Transport, with two journeys journeys in a one way loop operating Driffield-Wetwang-Fridaythorpe-Fimber-Sledmere-Driffield. These are now joined by an East Yorkshire Buses operated Saturday service which also operates two journeys via the same loop, albeit with the afternoon service operating in the opposite direction. The Saturday 535 is timed to connect with the seasonal 200 between Pocklington and Thixendale at Fridaythorpe. 

Significantly Improved Monday to Friday 399

A major enhancement was made to the Monday to Friday Hornsby 399 between Scunthorpe and Doncaster via the Isle of Axholme on Monday 7th April. Previously there were two Scunthorpe to Doncaster round trips every weekday along with two Scunthorpe to Misterton round trips, a Scunthorpe to Epworth round trip, a Belton to Westwoodside journey and a Westwoodside to Scunthorpe journey.

Now the service has been significantly enhanced and simplified, with five roundtrips between Scunthorpe and Doncaster Monday to Friday - clockface every two hours for most of the day - and one additional journey in each direction between Scunthorpe and Westwoodside, extending to Misterton on college days only. (The Stagecoach evening peak service between Scunthorpe and Westwoodside remains as well). Apart from the the morning peak service not serving the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, all journeys are now 'full route' - no more omitting Althorpe Village/West Butterwick/Beltoft and/or Owston Ferry on certain 'contra-flow' journeys.

One notable aspect about the revised 399 is the provision of suitably timed journeys for commuting to/from Doncaster. As a result First service 357 between Doncaster and Finningley no longer has Monday to Friday extensions to/from Epworth via Haxey and Westwoodside. The Saturday peak extensions remain, retimed to run slightly earlier.

Overall a significant improvement has been made for not much extra mileage, There are still the same number of journeys from Epworth to Scunthorpe for example, and only one extra in the opposite direction. Even from Westwoodside to Doncaster it's not a significant increase when taking into account First's 357. However everything is much simplified compared to previously, which taken with a small increase in mileage makes a big difference.

60 to 21 Transport?

Rather quietly - i.e. I can't find a formal announcement anywhere - North Lincolnshire Council tendered service 60 between Scunthorpe and Whitton seems to have passed from Stagecoach to 21 Transport. The service operates Monday to Saturday daytimes on a somewhat variable frequency throughout the day. Stagecoach cancelled the 60 from Sunday 30th March, with 21 Transport registering from Tuesday 1st April. Not quite sure what happened on Monday 31st March. As per bustimes.org, the timetable is unchanged.

21 Transport have a registered office in Goole and currently also operate North Yorkshire tendered services from Foxholes to Malton and Harrogate to Wetherby, with an additional Esk Valley to Whitby tender due to commence next week. Last year they also briefly operated from Horton and Settle in North Yorkshire to Clitheroe in Lancashire - quite the disparate operation!

Twice a Week to Gainsborough

This week the service level on the Stagecoach operated tendered 398 from Belton to Gainsborough via Epworth, Haxey, Owston Ferry and Walkeringham is doubled, as the current Tuesday only service starts running on Friday's as well from 4th April. The service leaves Belton at 0945, arriving in Gainsborough for 1047, before departing back at 1310. I'm guessing this is a Bus Service Improvement Plan funded initiative, but can't find any documents or press releases to substantiate that. 

Peak Time Park and Ride to East Yorkshire

Since I think Summer 2023, the Stagecoach service 20 Priory Park and Ride in Hull has been subsidised by Hull City Council Monday to Friday until 0900 and after 1400. During these times the service is half hourly and operates via the A63, as opposed to operating every 20 minutes via Askew Avenue off peak and on Saturdays when the service is provided commercially. 

It's an odd situation how a park and ride can be commercially viable for just five hours in the middle of the day - it's not an off peak shopping route. Are Stagecoach just doing the minimum necessary to keep access to the Park and Ride for MKM Stadium match day and Hull Fair services?

Also odd, Stagecoach providing a 20 minute frequency commercially pre 0900 on a Saturday when it's a tendered half hourly service at this time on a weekday.

Just to make things even more bizarre, the commercial/tendered split Monday to Friday becomes very apparent from tomorrow - Monday 31st March - as the tendered peak time service passes to East Yorkshire Buses on an initial one year contract (with option to extend) costing £113,802 per annum, funded from Bus Service Improvement Plan funding. East Yorkshire were the only operator to submit a compliant bid and included a "satisfactory quality submission".

I'm not sure this is a good look for East Yorkshire Buses when temporary timetable reductions remain in operation on other Hull routes.

Hull Nightbuses Withdrawn

Tonight - Saturday 29th March (or to be precise, the early hours of Sunday 30th) - is the last night of operation for Hull's nightbuses. They were introduced at the start of December 2023 for an initial three months, funded from Hull City Council's Bus Service Improvement Plan allocation, and have lasted for sixteen months. Their withdrawal is very disappointing, but they have clearly be given sufficient time to try and gain sufficient custom, before 'pulling the plug'.

Impacted are the 0010 and 0110 departures from Hull City Centre on the following routes:

• Stagecoach 5: Hull City Centre to Kingswood Retail Park - last departure to become 2330
• Stagecoach 6: Hull City Centre to North Bransholme - last departure to become 2330
• Stagecoach 8: Hull City Centre to Bransholme North Point - last departure to become 2100 (or similar service 11 at 2330)
• Stagecoach 13: Hull City Centre to Bilton Grange - last departure to become 2330
• East Yorkshire 57: Hull City Centre to Asda Bilton - last departure to become 2325 on associated service 56
• East Yorkshire 58: Hull City Centre to Hessle - last departure to become 2300 (Stagecoach service 2 has a 2330 departure covering part of the route)
• East Yorkshire 104: Hull City Centre to Cottingham - last departure to become 2240 (Stagecoach service 5 has a 2330 to the Avenues, and East Yorkshire service 45 offers a 2310 from Hull to Cottingham)

How Hull proposes to spend Bus Service Improvement Plan Funding

The March 13th meeting of Hull City Council's Economy and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Commission included a report detailing how Hull City Council is proposing to spend it's Bus Service Improvement Plan funding for 2025-2026. Some interesting proposals, especially items 4, 5 and 6.

1. Continuation of frequency Enhancements 

This will see a continuation of the financial support to the bus operators of a minimum 10-minute frequency on all key routes, Anlaby Road, Holderness Road, Beverley Road, and Spring Bank West.  

2. Continuation of Connective Services 

To continue the service links to Castle Hill, Beverley Town Centre, Chamberlain Road. 

3. Continuation of the Marfleet Community Bus

Revenue To continue the service with East Hull Community Transport, providing a community link 3 days per week. 

4. New service to provide a transport link to Clough Road 

Proposal to link with service 8, operating an 8C via Clough Road.  The importance of doing the circular with the 8 would be to increase the locations that Clough Road would be linked too, such as Bransholm, Sutton Fields, Howdale Road.   

5. New Service 12a 

This scheme would see half the service 12 turn right out of Noddle Hill Way and operate via Wawne Rd, Pioneer Way, Medical Centre, Richmond Way, Barnes Way, Retail Park and Bude Rd to Bransholme Centre, forming a loop with the existing 12 route which would increase the buses to Kingswood by up to four an hour.  

6. New Moors bus Service 

Joint funded service with East Riding and North Yorkshire. The service will operate from Hull Interchange to access the Wolds, Pickering, Kirkbymoorside, Hutton le Hole on to Danby. Proposed operating season 3rd May to 28th September 2025 Sundays and Bank Holidays only. One departure from Hull per day at 0900 and returning at 1900.  

7. Discounted Fares 

Focus on set campaigns, care leavers under 19, student travel, Katcard day rider and social support schemes such as Food Bank travel. 

8. Improved Customer Information 

Promotions of joint corridor travel and bus stop information.  

9. Park and Ride Peak Journeys 

To continue the financial support for the peak hour’s journeys for the Park & Ride AM /PM (Monday to Friday).  

10. Bus Priority and Bus Gates 

To identify, design and complete dedicated bus priority and bus gate schemes across the cites key corridors to improve bus services punctuality 

11. Moving Traffic Violation Investment 

For the initial development of the MTV cameras and enforcement scheme for the yellow box junction between Brook Street and Hull Paragon Interchange, to support bus accessibility and improve punctuality. 

12. Real time investment 

To have a city-wide investment programme to identity new locations and replace existing on street Real Time Displays with new improved technology. 

12. Bus Shelter Investment 

Investment for increasing the current council owned bus shelter asset, by purchasing up to 30 new bus shelters that will compliment with 19 bee friendly bus shelters. 

14. Hull Interchange Accessibility 

Investment Focusing on the accessibility for passengers accessing bus services in the Interchange. Improving the information and creating dedicated walkways. 

15. Bus Stop Accessibility 

To improve bus stop accessibility city wide, includes raised bus boarders, TROs, seating, signs and lines. Number of schemes is subject to further detailed designs. 

16. Park and Ride Development 

Improvements to the facilities and new bike parking to support multi modal travel 

17. Pinch Point Investment 

Investment in carriageway improvements that have previously been identified by the Enhanced Partnership as causing pinch points on the bus network which leads to punctuality issues 

18. Community Bus 

In partnership with East Riding Yorkshire Council, purchasing a zero emissions vehicle that can be utilised for public consultation. 

19. Modelling of Key corridors transport gaps 

A review of the current public transport offer, to identify and gaps in the network which supports a social need which would identify scope for future developments, modelling key corridors, Bus Rapid Transit. 

20. Modelling of Transport Hubs 

A project to scope locations for future transport hubs to support active travel and multi modal travel.  

21. Traffic and Travel Traffic Cameras  

Supports the Traffic & Travel Team Project, widen visual access across the cites road network to support improved bus punctuality.  

The report also contained some proposed Stagecoach commercial changes:

6.8. In addition to the proposed funding allocation, Stagecoach have also agreed to operate two services commercially which supports the overall ambitions for increasing access to public transport and increased frequency. Service 15 operating via Staveley Rd to Hopewell Road then via Amethyst Road to Barham Road thus providing a regular service to Hopewell Road. Service 33, will see the contracted journeys that need to service Kestrel Avenue numbered 33C.  The peak time journeys would remain as Service 33's and operate from Leads Rd via Wawne Rd, to Diversity Drive, Medical Centre, Richmond Way, Barnes Way, to Kingswood Retail Park.