On Trains & Buses

Irish Rail has summarised their Easter weekend services. as well as providing full details in a special timetable. Easter Sunday is seeing a lot of alterations with engineering works in place between Dublin’s Connolly Station, Malahide and Howth. Also, commuter services to and from Dublin will be observing a Saturday timetable on Good Friday.

National Express West Midlands are offering a Saturday service on Good Friday and a Sunday service on Easter Monday. Usual Saturday and Sunday services will apply for Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, respectively.

First Manchester has announced its Easter weekend service levels. Aside from a few exceptions such as services 100 (Manchester to Warrington via Trafford Centre) and 184 (Manchester to Oldham and Huddersfield), a Sunday service is on offer on Good Friday and Easter Monday with Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday having usual Saturday and Sunday timetables, respectively.

In the Isle of Man, Good Friday and Easter Monday bus services are following Sunday timetables as well as any journeys marked as applying to bank holidays. Additionally, Hullad Oie also operates and the morning departure of service 4 from Peel is at 08:00. Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday timings are as usual for any other weekend.

Rosso observing Sunday timetables on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday seeing usual bus timings around Rossendale.

Ipswich Buses are running Sunday timetables on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Other days of long weekend are as they usually are.

Transdev Keighley running a Saturday timetable on Good Friday and a Sunday service on Easter Monday. Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday are observing usual timetables. More details are on the bus company’s website.

Yorkshire may be getting a taste of the Tour de France in July but Ireland is having a flavour of the Giro d’Italia in May. As a result, there is a mixture of special additional services and alterations to normal services in Northern Ireland between the eight and eleventh of May inclusive.

Information from Stagecoach North East for services around Newcastle, Sunderland, South Shields, Teeside and Hartlepool.

This is the information from Metrobus: A Sunday service will operate on Good Friday 18th April, Sunday 20th April and Easter Monday 21st April. A normal Saturday service will operate on 19th April.