News Snippets
The Wye Valley AONB are funding a summertime Sunday and bank holiday bus service between Hereford, Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth that serves a part of the lower Wye valley that has not seen a Sunday or bank holiday service for ten years. The operator is First and the route number is 34. The four return journeys between Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth with the first southbound and last northbound ones extending to Hereford for connections with train services. Let’s hope the service gets the support that it so deserves.
Recently, I caught up with an announcement from Ireland’s National Transport Authority about the future of Limerick city’s Colbert Station. It is a joint bus and rail station and the former section does look like an afterthought added to the south of the former. The plan is to move it to the other side of the train station and have it gain a more purposeful look about it. The current bus station then would become a car park and the current car park in front of the train station would be made into a pedestrian plaza. Anything that spruces up what does look a more down at heel part of the city has to help and a disused service station offers some space that can be pressed into service. While the architects’ plans do toy with the idea of building extra floors over the new bus station, that thankfully is an exploration rather than a definite intention. You have only to look at some rail and bus stations in the U.K. to see why that might be a bad idea.
Good Friday services from High Peak Buses will observe the Saturday timetable except for services 1, 11, 14, and 392/393 since these will not operate. Its a Sunday timetable on Easter Monday while other days of the weekend are like any other.
Service 130 between Macclesfield and Manchester is being operated by GHA to a Sunday timetable on Good and Easter Monday. Arriva are providing a normal Saturday service on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday sees the usual timetable for the day of the week with GHA providing the service.
Around the Tees Valley, Stagecoach, Arriva and Go North East are largely running Sunday timetables on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and on Easter Monday. Usual bus timetables apply on Saturday.
Lothian Buses will be operating a Saturday timetable on both Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Go North East have summarised their Easter Weekend services. Most services on Good Friday and Easter Monday do observe Sunday timetables though there are exceptions. Even Easter Sunday sees the same sort of thing while Holy Saturday services run as if it were a normal Saturday.
Stagecoach is operating Sunday timetables on both Good Friday and Easter Monday around Greater Manchester and also about Wigan.
Brighton & Hove buses are operating Sunday timetables on both Good Friday and Easter Monday. Otherwise, it is what you get from them for any weekend.
First Potteries are operating a Saturday service timetable for Good Friday and a Sunday one for Easter Monday. Other days in the Easter Weekend have their usual daily service timetables in place.