What's Happening to the 8? 355 Returns

Back in September you may recall Arriva service 8 between Selby and Goole was diverted via Hook on Wednesdays and Fridays, replacing the 355 Airmyn-Hook-Goole service. However from mid-Aprilthe 355 will return. Today the following registration appeared on VOSA:

PB0004001/13 - EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL T/A FLEET MANAGEMENT & PASSENGER TRANSPORT UNIT, UNIT 10, ANNIE REED ROAD, BEVERLEY, HU17 0LF

• Registration Accepted by SN
• Starting Point: AIRMYN VILLAGE
• Finish Point: GOOLE, BOOTHFERRY ROAD (TESCO)
• Via:
• Service Number: 355
• Service Type: Normal Stopping
• Effective Date: 17-APR-2013
• Other Details: Wednesday and Friday only One journey in each direction

I presume this will operate via Hook. What is surprising is that despite changes to the 8, which is a North Yorkshire County Council tendered service, the journeys from Hook appear to still be operating - so why the need for the 355 to return? Below is the description of the changes to the 8 as detailed by North Yorkshire County Council in their service change document.

"Most journeys will now be operated by Utopia. The 1224hrs Selby to Goole is replaced with 1335hrs Selby to Drax, the 1435hrs Selby to Drax is withdrawn, the 1635hrs Selby to Drax school holidays is retimed to 1600hrs. The 0810hrs Drax to Selby school holidays is retimed to 0847hrs, the 0927hrs Drax to Selby is withdrawn, the 1330hrs Goole to Selby is replaced with a 1402hrs from Drax to Selby. The route in Goole is amended to serve the Hospital on inward journeys. There is no change to the school day service from Pollington to Selby College and return."

 

Applying the above to the weekday timetable (is the Saturday timetable unchanged?), the 8 will retain the folllowing journeys:

 

0835 Pollington-Selby (School Days)

0847 Drax-Selby

0922 Selby-Goole (via Hook on Wednesdays and Fridays)

1030 Goole-Selby

1122 Selby-Drax (Mon, Tue, Thu)

1122 Selby-Goole Tesco (Wed, Fri)

1150 Drax-Selby (Mon, Tue, Thu)

1221 Goole Tesco-Selby via Hook (Wed, Fri)

1335 Selby-Drax

1402 Drax-Selby

1600 Selby-Drax (School Holidays)

1635 Selby-Pollington (School Days)

 

As you can see the Hook journeys appear to be unaffacted, based on the details provided by North Yorkshire County Council. However if so, why the need for the 355? And if the above is correct Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays will have just one, pretty useless, journey to/from Goole arriving at 1014 and departing 16 minutes later. I don't think the final details of what is happening are yet in the public domain