Changes to Staffordshire Bus Services in January 2016
Posted on December 24, 2015
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Having subscribed to news alerts from Staffordshire County Council regarding bus services, I always have fancied distilling the news for publication on here, only for the time or inclination needed to prepare the digests never to appear. The emails are split by district so there is some overlap between them. Rather than preserving that, I am going to present a county wide summary here and Traveline should let you in on any new bus times.
From 2016-01-03 Services 1 & 2: Huntington - Walsall (Arriva Midlands)
Revised route and timetable.
Services 3 & 3A: Cannock - Walsall (Arriva Midlands)
Revised timetable.
Service 6: Stafford - Rickerscote (Arriva Midlands)
Revised route and timetable, with Stafford to Doxey to be served by new service 12. Service 6A journeys cancelled and Merrivale Road no longer served.
Service 12: Stafford - Doxey(Arriva Midlands)
New Monday to Sunday service with an hourly frequency on Sundays and a half-hourly one on other days of the week.
Service 24: Rugeley - Brereton (Arriva Midlands)
New half hourly Monday to Saturday service that replaces part of the cancelled X70 service.
Service 26: Rugeley - Etching Hill & Springfields (Arriva Midlands)
New half hourly Monday to Saturday circular service that replaces part of the cancelled 826/828 service.
Service 60: Cannock - Lichfield (Arriva Midlands)
Revised route and timetable. X60 will be cancelled and the Lichfield to Tamworth section replaced by new service X65.
Services 61 & 62: Cannock - Lichfield (Arriva Midlands)
Minor timetable revisions.
Services 70 / 70E: Rugeley - Wolverhampton
Revised route and timetable. X70 journeys will be cancelled, with Brereton to be served by the new service 24, and Wedges Mill and Hill Ridware will no longer be served.
Services 74, 75 & 75A: Cannock - Stafford (Arriva Midlands)
Revised route and timetable, with Beaconside MOD no longer served and 75 terminating in Stafford town centre.
Service 74B: Cannock - Stafford (Arriva Midlands)
Service cancelled.
Services 76 / 76A / 76B: Stafford - Wolverhampton (Arriva Midlands)
Revised timetable.
Services 824 & 825: Lichfield - Stafford (Arriva Midlands)
Revised route and timetable, with 825 now terminating at Stafford Hospital.
Services 826 & 828: Lichfield - Stafford (Arriva Midlands)
Service cancelled, with Etching Hill section replaced by new service 26.
Services 877 & 878: Stafford - Wolverhampton (Select Bus)
Revised route and timetable.
From 2016-01-04 Service 3: Keele - Crewe (First Potteries)
Revised timetable due to roadworks.
Services 8A, 28 & 98: Newcastle - Ball Green (First Potteries)
Revised timetable.
Service 9: Clayton - Biddulph (D&G Bus)
Revised timetable, with 9E evening journeys cancelled and Sunday journeys renumbered to 9.
Service 12: (D&G Bus, Stone - Meir Heath)
Revised timetable, and route around Meir Heath.
Services 13 & 13A: (D&G Bus, Stone - Stafford)
Minor timetable revisions.
Services 14, 14A & 14B: Stafford - Hanley (D&G Bus)
Revised route and timetable, with new 14A and 14B journeys, replacing cancelled X14 and X14A services.
Services 16 & 16A: Hanley - Buxton (D&G Bus)
Revised route and timetable with some Sunday journeys extended to Buxton to replace service X15.
Service 31: Leek - Hanley (D&G Bus)
Revised route and timetable.
Service 35: Newcastle - Chesterton (D&G Bus)
Revised route and timetable, with Meadow Avenue no longer served.
Services 73 & 74: Newcastle - Audley (D&G Bus)
Revised route and timetable. Service 74A will be cancelled, and 74 re-routed to serve Lower Milehouse Lane. Evening journeys 74E will be re-numbered as 74. These are service changes delayed from 2015-11-16.
Services 94 / 94A: Newcastle - Biddulph (D&G Bus)
Revised timetable.
Services 785 / 786: Lichfield - Austrey (Arriva Midlands)
Revised timetable.
Service 842: Stafford - Rugeley (D&G Bus)
Revised Saturday timetable.
Services 877 & 878: Stafford - Wolverhampton (Select Bus)
Revised route and timetable.
Orange ONE: Newcastle - Meir (D&G Bus)
Revised timetable
Services X14, X14A & X14B: Stafford - Hanley (D&G Bus)
Service cancelled and replaced by 14, 14A & 14B.
Service X15: Hanley - Buxton (D&G Bus)
Sunday service is replaced by the revised 16. Monday to Saturday timetable is unchanged.
Service X16: Tamworth to Birmingham (Central Buses)
New Monday to Friday service that replaces the current X73 service.
Service X55: Lichfield - Tamworth (Central Buses)
Revised timetable.
Service X65: Lichfield - Tamworth (Arriva Midlands)
New half hourly Monday to Saturday service that replaces part of the cancelled X60 service.
From 2016-01-10 Service 2: Newcastle - Hanley (First Potteries)
Revised timetable with service 2A journeys cancelled.
Service 3: Hanley - Crewe (First Potteries)
Service spilt with service 3 operating from Hanley to Crewe and the section to Keele operated by the new service 25.
Services 4 & 4A: Hanley - Kidsgrove (First Potteries)
Revised timetable.
Service 6A: Hanley - Blythe Bridge (First Potteries)
Revised timetable.
Services 8A, 28 & 98: Newcastle - Ball Green (First Potteries)
Revised timetable, with additional evening services from Keele on service 98.
Service 25: Keele - Hanley (First Potteries)
New frequent Monday to Sunday service that replaces part of the service 3.
Services 32 / 32A: Hanley - Uttoxeter (First Potteries)
Route change between Spath and Uttoxeter.
From 2016-01-11 Services 74A & S74: Stafford -Huntington - Walton-on-the-Hill - Cannock (Social Travel)
New hourly Monday to Friday service with one S74 journey in each direction serving Brocton village. Start delayed from 2015-11-30.
Service 123: Cheadle Town Circular (Bennetts Travel)
New operator with the same route but a revised timetable.
From 2016-01-17 Service 22: Newcastle - Longton (First Potteries)
Revised timetable.
Services 97 & 99: Newcastle - Wolstanton / Bradeley (First Potteries)
Revised timetable.
From 2016-01-31 Service 18: Leek - Hanley (First Potteries)
Revised Sunday timetable.