One Service becomes Three Services

Scunthorpe tendered service 10 passed from Stagecoach to Hornsby on Monday 6th October (2025) and underwent significant changes at the same time.

Since Spring 2024, the 10 had operated Monday to Fridays from Burringham to Scunthorpe Bus Station via Ashby Parklands, Burringham Road, Ashby High Street, Lakeside Retail Park, Queensway, West Common Lane, Glover Road, Kingsway and Brumby Wood Lane. Departures left Burringham at 0930 and 1250, and Scunthorpe Bus Station at 1200.

From week commencing 6th October, the 10 only operates Tuesdays and Fridays and from Ashby Parklands to Glover Road runs direct via Scotter Road and West Common Lane. The 1200 from Scunthorpe Bus Station is retimed to leave at 1218, with the 1250 from Burringham withdrawn. 

Ashby and Lakeside Retail Park are now served on Thursdays only (Ashby Market day) as the 10a, operating as per the revised 10 to Brumby Wood Lane then straight down Ashby Road to Ashby High Street and Lakeside Retail Park. The 10a departs Burringham at 0930, returning from Lakeside at 1213.

Monday and Wednesdays see new service 10b introduced, operating as per the 10/10a to Kingsway, then via Gallagher Retail Park (Tesco Extra) to Skippingdale Retail Park. The 10b departs Burringham at 0930 and Skippingdale at 1213.

If some of this sounds familiar, until those Spring 2024 improvements, the 10 only served Scunthorpe Bus Station on Tuesdays and Fridays and Ashby on Thursdays. It's not quite a return to these arrangements as there was no Lakeside served back then, and Burringham only on Fridays, and no service either on Mondays and Wednesdays or to Gallagher and Skippingdale Retail Parks. However the new 10/10a/10b arrangements have certainly taken inspiration from previous long standing service patterns. If the standardised Monday to Friday 10 wasn't working, then the 10/10a/10b seems like it is worth trying.

The 10/10a/10b also says a lot about how dispersed retail destinations have become, both in Scunthorpe, and generally across the country, and demonstrate how it is often very hard to serve them all with a single service.