Stagecoach X62 February Change

Stagecoach have today registered with VOSA to amend the timetable of service X62 (Hull-Brough-Goole-Leeds) from mid-February:

PB0001484/266 - LINCOLNSHIRE ROAD CAR CO LTD, PO BOX 15, DEACON ROAD, LINCOLN, LN2 4JB
Variation Accepted: Operating between Hull Interchange and Goole given service number X62 effective from 15-Feb-2014. To amend Timetable.

PB0001484/267 - LINCOLNSHIRE ROAD CAR CO LTD, PO BOX 15, DEACON ROAD, LINCOLN, LN2 4JB
Variation Accepted: Operating between Goole and Casstleford given service number X62 effective from 15-Feb-2014. To amend Timetable.

PB0001484/268 - LINCOLNSHIRE ROAD CAR CO LTD, PO BOX 15, DEACON ROAD, LINCOLN, LN2 4JB
Variation Accepted: Operating between Castleford and Leeds Coach Station given service number X62 effective from 15-Feb-2014. To amend Timetable.

Stagecoach re-register Europarc Service 20

Stagecoach have today re-registered tendered service 20 between Cleethorpes, Grimsby and the Europarc industrial estate that they had cancelled with VOSA with effect from 1st January.

PB0001484/297 - LINCOLNSHIRE ROAD CAR CO LTD, PO BOX 15, DEACON ROAD, LINCOLN, LN2 4JB

• Registration Accepted by SN
• Starting Point: Cleethorpes
• Finish Point: Europarc
• Via:
• Service Number: 20
• Service Type: Normal Stopping
• Effective Date: 02-JAN-2014
• Other Details: North East Lincolnshire Council have requested that we continue to operate this previously expired Tendered Service.

 

1E: Second Time Lucky?

EYMS have confirmed that at the request of Hull City Council tendered services 1A (Hull-Sibelius Road) and 1C (Kingswood-Hull-Sibelius Road) will be replaced by service 1E (Mizzen Road-Hull-Sibelius Road) from Monday 20th January.

This change had originally been planned for September - see this blog post for full details of what was planned - but was then cancelled less than a week before the change was due to be introduced.

EYMS Services Christmas and New Year 2013-14

EYMS Service Plans this Christmas and New Year:

Christmas Eve - Normal Service with early finish
Christmas Day - No Services
Boxing Day - Hourly Daytime Service on Routes 34, 56, 64C, 66 - and new for 2013, Routes 115 and 154
Friday 27th - Saturday Service, except a Normal Friday Service on Routes 195, 199, S1, S2 and S3 and No Services on Routes X36, 106, 107, 143, 160 and 162
Saturday 28th - Normal Service
Sunday 29th - Normal Service
Monday 30th - Saturday Service, except a Normal Monday Service on Routes 195 and 241, and No Services on Routes X36, 106, 107, 160 and 162. Some Evening Journeys on Services 75 and X47 will not operate
New Years Eve - Saturday Service with early finish, except a Normal Tuesday Service on Routes S2, 195, 196 and 198 and No Services on Routes X36, 106, 107, 143, 160 and 162.
New Years Day - No Services

Stagecoach Hull Area Services Christmas and New Year 2013-14

Stagecoach service plans for the Hull area this Christmas and New Year period:

Christmas Eve - Normal Service until 2000. Any journeys due to start after 2000 will not operate
Christmas Day - No Services
Boxing Day - Special Services, See Below
Friday 27th and Saturday 28th - Normal Saturday Service including Nightbuses
Sunday 29th - Normal Service
Monday 30th - Saturday Service including Nightbuses
New Years Eve - Saturday Service until 2000, LinQ 1+2 operate to almost normal Saturday timetable plus special Nightbus timetable, see below
New Years Day - No Services

Boxing Day:
Hourly Daytime Service on Routes 1, 2, 28B (No service to Kingswood), 30C (North Bransholme-Hull via Sutton Road and Leads Road), 32, 41A (via Holderness Road via Newbridge Road), 43, and 51. Some extra journeys will operate on Routes 30C, 32 and 51
Half Hourly Daytime Service on Routes 13/13A, 14 and 15
Plus Football Routes 31F, 43F and 51F

New Years Eve:
Nightbus N2 operates from Hull at 0030, 0100, 0130 and 0200
Nightbus N2 operates from Hessle at 0055 and 0125
Nightbus N15 operates from Hull at 0055 and 0155
Nightbus N15 operates from Kingswood at 0130
Nightbus N43 operates from Hull at 0030, 0100, 0130 and 0200
Nightbus N51 operates from Hull at 0100 and 0200
Nightbus N51 operates from Kingswood at 0121

If my notes are correct there are no major changes to Boxing Day services this year except for the 30 serving Leads Road. New Years Eve sees a reduced evening service; last year journeys ran post 2000 on routes 1, 2, 15, 31, 43, 51 and 54 whereas the only evening service post 2000 this year will be on LinQ 1+2. The Nightbus network is altered to reflect route changes to the year round Saturday Nightbus network

Stagecoach Grimsby Area Services Christmas and New Year 2013-14

Stagecoach service plans for the Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham areas this Christmas and New Years period:

Christmas Eve - Normal Tuesday Service with early finish
Christmas Day - No Service
Boxing Day - Hourly Daytime Services on Routes 9A (including New Waltham), 13, 14 and 46
Friday 27th - Saturday Service, except Normal Friday Service on Routes 1, 2, 20 and 25
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th - Normal Service
Monday 30th - Saturday Service, except Normal Monday Service on Routes 1, 2, 20 and 25
New Years Eve - Saturday Service with early finish except Normal Tuesday Services on Routes 1, 2 and 25. Normal Tuesday Service with early finish on Route 20
New Years Day - No Service

The above service pattern is the same as last year.

Stagecoach Scunthorpe Area Services Christmas and New Year 2013-14

Stagecoach service plans for the Scunthorpe area this Christmas and New Year period:

Christmas Eve - Normal Tuesday Service with early finish
Christmas Day - No Service
Boxing Day - No Service
Friday 27th-Monday 30th - Normal Service
New Years Eve - Normal Tuesday Service with early finish
New Years Day - No Service

Compared to last year, the hourly Boxing Day service on Scunthorpe Town Services 31A and 32A will not operate, which is sadly a backwards step in service provision. I presume the services were poorly used last year?

Scunthorpe Hospital Service Changes February 2014

Hornsby Travel are revising services 9 and 90 in February; service 90 is operated under contract to North Lincolnshire Council. The below is taken from Traveline East Midlands.

Serrvice 9 currently provides a 20 minute frequency Monday to Saturday daytime between Scunthorpe Bus Station and Scunthorpe Hospital, operating on an anti-clockwise loop serving Cliff Gardens outbound from Scunthorpe Bus Station and Church Lane inbound. While primarily a hospital shuttle service, it does serve some residential areas. From Saturday 1st February however the Saturday service is severely cutback. Instead of a 20 minute frequency, services will now only operate from Scunthorpe Bus Station at 0845, 1045, 1145, 1345 and 1445, serving the Scunthorpe Hospital Main Entrance at 0855, 1055, 1155, 1355 and 1455.

Additionally a limited number of extra journeys will be provided by revised service 90 between Scunthorpe, Crowle and Luddington. All Saturday journeys will now operate via the hospital grounds, as opposed to stops outside the hospital on Cliff Gardens. These depart Scunthorpe Bus Station at 0720, 0915, 1215, 1515 and 1725, and have slightly revised times towards Crowle/Luddington as a result. In the return direction journeys from Luddington/Crowle have revised times of up to 10 minutes later than at present, and serve Scunthorpe Hospital Main Entrance at 0825, 1020, 1320, 1646 and 1830.

As a result new departure times from Scunthorpe Bus Station for the combined 9/90 will be 0720, 0845, 0915, 1045, 1145, 1215, 1345, 1445, 1515 and 1725. From the main entrance of Scunthorpe Hospital departures will be at 0825, 0855, 1020, 1055, 1155, 1320, 1355, 1455, 1646 and 1830. It should also be noted that there are other services available from between Scunthorpe Bus Station and Cliff Gardens to supplement the 9/90 that operate via the hospital grounds.

Weekday services on route 90 are unchanged, while weekday service 9 has a new 1845 departure between Scunthorpe Bus Station and the outpatients department on Cliff Gardens only.

LinQ Changes

Last Saturday (30th November), Stagecoach in Hull altered their Saturday night LINQ service that commenced on 7th September as a circular service; between 1800 and 2100 operating clockwise from Clough Road via Holwell Road, Sutton Road, Cavendish Road, Ings Road, Holderness Road, Witham, George Street, Alfred Gelder Street, Carr Lane, Ferensway, Princes Avenue and Newland Avenue back to Clough Road, and from 2130 operating anti clockwise. The frequency was every 10 minutes until 2300 then after a few 'short journeys' between Clough Road and Hull the anti-clockwise service resumed on a 50 minute frequency until 0130.

The circular route is now no more. The LinQ service now operates from North Point via two alternative routes to Holderness Road, Witham, Alfred Gelder Street, Carr Lane, Hull Interchange (journeys from North Point only), Spring Bank, Princes Avenue and Newland Avenue to Clough Road Mecca Bingo. The focus remains on connecting East Hull to the City Centre and the Avenues nightlife, with 6 services an hour from North Point departing between 1800 and 2100 (an even interval 10 minute frequency operates from Holderness Road onwards. Then from 2130 and 2300 a 10 minute frequency operates from Clough Road back to North Point until 2300, followed by 2310 and 2320 Clough Road to Alfred Gelder Street short journeys then a half hourly Clough Road to North Point service between 2330 and 0200 - an improvement on the previous 50 minute service.

Between North Point and Holderness Road, services operate alternatively via Midmere Avenue, Howdale Road, Dunvegan Road and Salthouse Road as LinQ 1 or via Wawne Road, Sutton Road, Gillshill Road, Cavendish Road and Ings Road as LinQ 2. While Ings Road was on the original LinQ route the other areas were not, thus the new routes provide a greatly enhanced Saturday evening/night service to these areas - most notably for Salthouse Road who's previous evening service comprised a solitary 2340 Hull-North Point journey on service 10, 6 hours after the previous departure at 1740.

These changes certainly seem to be an improvement, more buses post midnight, more areas served, easier early evening connections to other services by now serving Hull Interchange. Interesting the circular services has gone; I guess there will be a lot of 'dead' running between Clough Road and North Point though maybe Stagecoach want the option of running to/from their depot on Foster Street on some journeys instead?

I had been sceptical about whether the LinQ service was the best option to improve Saturday evening/night services in Hull, and had thought improving existing services would be a better option, creating a more simple network, and I still think that would be better. However that could mean using more resources as it would need enhancements to the 10, 15, 51 and maybe the 32/32A  and 53 as well. Not for the first time it's a question of network simplicity versus resource efficiency.

Stagecoach's changes do however 'deal' with one point I had raised back when the service was introduced in September:

Stagecoach are also hoping other East Hull travellers will catch existing services to connect with the LinQ, but if so, then why not just promote existing connections available at Paragon Interchange? Is it really so inconvenient to travel into the City Centre en-route to the Avenues? On a cold rainy night wouldn't it be better to wait in an undercover staffed Interchange than at an exposed on-street bus shelter?

Now some key areas of East Hull no longer need to connect to access the LinQ, which I think can only help the LinQ's future. And I still can't fault Stagecoach for trying to improve Saturday evening/night services. It's a commendable initiative.

EYMS January Changes

EYMS have today applied with VOSA to amend the following registrations from 27th January 2014:

 

152/153: Hull-Anlaby-Brough-South Cave

155/155A: Hull-Brough-South Cave-Howden-Goole

X4: Hull-Brough-South Cave-Market Weighton-York

X55/X56/X57 Petuaria Express: Hull-Brough-(South Cave)-Howden-Goole

Arriva 4 January Change

Arriva registered a variation to service 4 between Selby, Howden and Goole with VOSA earlier this week:

 

PB0000582/73 - ARRIVA YORKSHIRE LTD, 24 BARNSLEY ROAD, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5JX

Variation Accepted: Operating between Selby and Goole given service number 4 effective from 27-Jan-2014. To amend Timetable.