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Changes to Crewe bus services in September & October of 2013

Posted on September 5, 2013

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Within the last few days, a number of changes to bus services serving Crewe have been announced. These are coming in three waves, one for each of three bus companies. D&G is first and largely sticks to tweaking times and routes as does First. Arriva sadly are doing a spot of pruning though this is no near as drastic as what was facing us this time last year.

The 22nd of September is when the first batch of changes will come to pass and they are being introduced by D&G. Service 85 from Crewe to Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent) will have two morning journeys starting later: 08:15 at 08:35 and 09:30 at 09:35. The 45/45A service between Nantwich and Crewe will see the 08:22 journey from Marshfield to Crewe start at the earlier time of 08:12. Crewe town services 8, 8A and 9 are seeing some swapping around with 8A replacing the 8 and 9 on some Monday to Friday afternoon journeys. All of these are tweaks compared to what was going on this time last year and any later or earlier starts affect later stopping points on those journeys by the same amount of time.

Next up for adjustment is the 20 service from Crewe to Hanley that is operated by First Potteries from 6th October. Again, these are timing changes apart from withdrawal of the extension to Haslington. Otherwise, it’s a matter of journeys such as the Sunday morning 09:08 arrival at Leighton Hospital seeing tweaks. Some other journeys from Leighton Hospital start three minutes early and more again will see timing changes between Crewe train station and Radway Green. All of this is for the sake of ensuring greater reliability so things most have changed on roads around there recently to necessitate the changes.

On 27th October, Arriva are adjusting services 31/31A between Crewe and Northwich and 6 between Crewe and Shavington. The latter is losing the first Monday to Saturday journey of the day in each direction. Late afternoon journeys on the 31/31A are being thinned out with Monday to Friday post 16:00 journeys from Northwich to two at 16:35 and 17:40. Their equivalents on Saturdays are to become hourly (16:15, 17:15, 18:15). Post 17:00 Northwich journeys from Crewe go down to two from Monday to Friday (17:20 & 17:55) and three on Saturday (17:01, 17:31, 18:31). In all of this, the last journey of the day from Crewe to Winsford escapes unscathed.