Kirton Klipper Update

Earilier this month, North Lincolnshire Council cancelled their directly operated 354 'Kirton Kipper' Kirton in Lindsey Town Service, which currently operates around the town on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 0945 and 1109. The cancellation was from April 8th.

Despite no re-registration appearing on the VOSA website (yet), Traveline East Midlands shows that from April 8th, North Lincolnshire Council will continue to operate the 354 to a new timetable, offering 4 journey's at 0945, 1015, 1045 and 1115 from Kirton Barracks, around the town, with some different timing points compared to the current timetable. Operating days will be Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Interconnect 3 April Changes

Traveline East Midlands has the new timetable for Stagecoach Interconnect 3 between Grimsby, Caistor, Market Rasen and Lincoln from April 2nd. The main Monday to Saturday frequency of hourly between Lincoln and Market Rasen with two hourly continuations to Grimsby remains unaltered, with minor changes as follows (punctuality related?):

• The 0645 grom Grimsby to Lincoln will instead depart at 0635 and arrive in Lincoln 5 minutes later than at present.
• The 0655 from Lincoln to Grimsby will instead depart at 0650, but arrives in Grimsby at the same time as present. 
• The 0840 from Market Rasen to Grimsby, and 0840 from Lincoln to Grimsby have extended journey times.

Blog Notice: Stagecoach 'Labels'

With the registration of all Stagecoach services in the region onto the East Midlands license from April, the individual Stagecoach Grimsby Cleethorpes, Stagecoach Hull and Stagecoach in Lincolnshire labels for blog posts will ceased to be used. Instead all Stagecoach bus related posts will be have a generic Stagecoach (Bus) label going forward.

As well as the license changes, the former Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport, Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport and Lincolnshire Road Car operations have become increasingly integrated, including joint operation of routes between depots. Meanwhile branding/names can vary between generic Stagecoach, Stagecoach East Midlands, and local fleetnames.

Thornes 1 Saturday Service to Cease

North Yorkshire County Council's forthcoming service change document notes that from April 14th, the Saturday service on Thornes Route 1 will cease to operate. Currently two Bubwith to Selby and return journeys operate on Saturdays, at 0945 and 1230 from Bubwith, and at 1200 and 1345 from Selby.

In addition on weekdays the 1415 from North Duffield to Selby will apparently cease to run, except there isn't a 1415. I assume North Yorkshire County Council are referring to the 1445.

As a result of these changes, only on Mondays and Fridays does a useful 'shopping' service into Selby remain. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the route is left with just a 0730 Bubwith-Selby and 1625 Selby-Bubwith-Hemingbrough. In addition to these journeys on Mondays a 0930 Holme-Selby and 1345 return also operates, and on Friday a 0945 Bubwith-Selby and 1215 return is provided.

Current Thornes timetable

Arriva Goole-Selby April Changes

Arriva have registered changes to their Goole to Selby services with VOSA from April 15th:

PB0000582/73 - ARRIVA YORKSHIRE LTD, 24 BARNSLEY ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5JX
Variation Accepted: Operating between Selby and Goole given service number 4 effective from 15-Apr-2013. To amend Timetable.

PB0000582/75 - ARRIVA YORKSHIRE LTD, 24 BARNSLEY ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5JX
Variation Accepted: Operating between Selby and Goole given service number 8/356/400/401/41/628 effective from 15-Apr-2013. To amend Timetable.

The services last had minor adjustments in January.

Hornsby 12 Change Details

Traveline East Midlands shows the 25th February change to Hornsby Scunthorpe Town Service 12 sees the 1600 from Scunthorpe Bus Station to East Butterwick operate 5 minutes later than at present, while the 1810 from Burringham to Ashby has a minute's extra running time.

Thanks to the poster who first posted details of these changes.

EYMS 34 April Change

EYMS are altering their service 34 between Market Weighton and Holme on Spalding Moor from April 8th. The service is operated on behalf of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, who have been considering extending the 35 between York and Holme on Spalding Moor, onwards to Market Weighton.

From VOSA:

PB0000328/353 - EAST YORKSHIRE MOTOR SERVICES LTD, 252 ANLABY ROAD, HULL, HU3 2RS

Variation Accepted: Operating between Market Weighton and Holme on Spalding Moor given service number 34H effective from 08-Apr-2013. To amend Timetable.

North Lincolnshire Council cancel two services

North Lincolnshire Council have cancelled two of their three directly operated public bus services, with effect from 8th April. The 58 links Wroot, Crowle and Sandtoft with Epworth on Wednesdays and Fridays, and the 354 provides a Kirton Town Service on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. From VOSA:

 

PB0004332/1 - NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL, PUBLIC TRANSPORT DEPT, F34, HEWSON HOUSE, BRIGG, DN20 8XY

Cancellation Accepted: Operating between Kirton In Lindsey and Kirton In Lindsey given service number 354 Kirton Klipper effective from 08-Apr-2013.

 

PB0004332/12 - NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL, PUBLIC TRANSPORT DEPT, F34, HEWSON HOUSE, BRIGG, DN20 8XY

Cancellation Accepted: Operating between Wroot and Wroot given service number 58 effective from 08-Apr-2013.

Remaining is the college day only 640 from South Ferriby to the Scunthorpe Colleges via Brigg. It is not yet clear if the 58 and 354 will continue operation with private sector operators.

Last EYMS BAe Workers Service Cancelled

EYMS will cancel their last BAe Brough workers service in April, the 612 from Hornsea, which operates via Beverley and Cottingham. From VOSA:

PB0000328/119 - EAST YORKSHIRE MOTOR SERVICES LTD, 252 ANLABY ROAD, HULL, HU3 2RS

• Cancellation Accepted: Operating between Hornsea and BAE Systems given service number 612 effective from 22-Apr-2013.

Stagecoach License, Route and Timetable Changes.

From April 1st Stagecoach have re-registered all Hull depot services on the Cleveland Transit license and all Grimsby depot services on the Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport license, onto the Lincolnshire Road Car license. It was only three years ago the last Grimsby depot Lincolnshire Road Car services were re-registered on the Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport license.

Certain services will also see timetable and route changes from the same date. The below information is taken from VOSA registrations:

Hull:
1 (Hull-Boothferry Estate) - "Minor' timetable change"
10 (Hull Circular) - "Revised Route and Timetable"
15 (Hull-Orchard Park-Kingswood) - "Revised Nightbus"
28A (Hull-Sutton Park-Bransholme-Kingswood) - "Revised Morning Peak Timetable"
32 (Hull-Bransholme) - "Minor Timetable Change"
42 (Hull-Greatfield) - "Minor Timetable Changes"
43 (Hull-Greatfield) - "Minor Timetable Changes"
51 (Hull-Bransholme-Kingswood - "Nightbus Changes"
53 (Hull-Salthouse Road) - "Revised Route and Timetable"
54 (Hull-Bilton Grange) - "Revised Route and Timetable"
110 (Hull-Cottingham) - "Revised Timetable"
677 (Beverley Road-Hull-Cranswick Foods Preston) - "Revised Route and Timetable"

North East Lincolnshire:
3 (Grimsby-Market Rasen) - "Includes Timetable Revision"
8 (Grimsby-New Waltham-North Sea Lane) - "Includes Timetable Revision"
9 (Waltham-Grimsby-Cleethorpes-North Sea Lane) - "Includes Timetable Revision"
16 (Asda-Grimsby-Wybers Woods) - "Revised Saturday Timetable"
45M (Grimsby-Immingham-South Killingholme) - "Includes minor revision to Habrough Services"
51 (Grimsby-Louth) - "Includes Additional Services from Tetney"

Also noteworthy is that the new registration for the 20 is from Riby Square to Europarc. It currently operates from Cleethorpes to Europarc.

NB - Route numbers taken from VOSA registrations, so may not include all variants

Hornsby 12 Upcoming Timetable Change

Hornsby Travel are amending their Scunthorpe Town Service Route 12 from later this month. From VOSA:

PB0001410/1 - HORNSBY TRAVEL SERVICES LTD, 51-53 ASHBY HIGH STREET, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2NB

• Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Scunthorpe BS and Ashfield Caravan Park given service number 12 effective from 25-Feb-2013. To amend Timetable.

EYMS Seeking Boxing Day feedback

EYMS are seeking feedback on their Boxing Day buses from users, and non-users. They are wanting feedback by 17th February 2013 to the following questions:

1. Where do you live?
2. Which bus services do you use day-to-day, and how often? (throughout the year, not just Boxing Day).
3. Did you travel on Boxing Day last year? (either by bus or other means).
4. If you travelled, please give us details about your journey. Where did you go, when and why (i.e. shopping, work, visiting family)? Did you travel by bus?
5. If you didn't travel, was that because you didn't want to, or because you couldn't because your bus service did not run?
6. Which buses would you like to see run on Boxing Day? (Within reason - it is unlikely we will provide a full service across our network as there is not the demand for this).
7. Do you have any other comments on Boxing Day buses?

For more details including the email address to send responses to, click here.

It is good to see EYMS actively seeking feedback, and seemingly with an open mind to enhancing and growing the limited Boxing Day network they have previously provided