Route News 2012
Changes to bus services in and around Peterborough in 2012 (latest items first). For older news see the Archive page.
Bus Station maintenance work from January 16th
Due to essential maintenance work, bays will be out of use as follows:
Phase 1 - Jan 16th to approx Feb. 12th: Bays 1a to 10 will be closed. Until 1800 hrs all buses will leave instead from Acland Street coach park. After 1800 hrs (and all day on Sundays) buses will depart from alternative bays at the bus station.
Phase 2 - Approx Feb. 12th to approx Feb 19th: Bays 10a to 20 will be closed. Until 1800 hrs all buses will leave instead from Acland Street coach park. After 1800 hrs (and all day on Sundays) buses will depart from alternative bays at the bus station.
For full details please see the City Council's Route Watch page.
16/01/12
Stagecoach changes from January 15th
Stagecoach are introducing changes from January 15th which mostly affect services to City Hospital, also Citi 8 and services 23/24 to Orton Waterville, Oundle and Thrapston. Details are as follows:
All services to City Hospital (including new route 25 below) will at last be extended to a new bus stop outside the main entrance.
The City Centre to City Hospital section of Citi 7, which runs on Mondays to Fridays (every 20 minutes), will now run direct via Westfield Road and Bretton Gate taking just 10 minutes, instead of via the City Care Centre in Thorpe Road. The latter will be served by a new route 25 which will run from Queensgate to the City Hospital via the City Care Centre (the old route of Citi 7). This will also run on Mondays to Fridays only, but will be every hour off-peak and every 30 minutes in the peaks.
Citi 8 has been allocated an extra vehicle to relieve timekeeping problems. The Queensgate to Parnwell section is rerouted via Broadway and the Regional College on Eastfield Road instead of via the Frank Perkins Parkway, taking 13 minutes instead of 11. This means it will serve the Broadway stop after Queensgate rather than Midgate, and journeys to Parnwell leave Queensgate 2 minutes earlier than previously.
The Queensgate to Cardea part of Citi 8 is given extra running time (19 minutes instead of 15), with the Stanground Corner to Cardea section being increased from 3 minutes to 7, with an 11 minute layover at Cardea instead of only 1 minute.
Route 24 to Oundle now leaves Queensgate 5 minutes earlier off-peak at 20 minutes past the hour and the short-lived extension to start from Peterborough Rail Station has been dropped. A journey at 1735 from Peterborough replaces those at 1700 and 1800. In Oundle, buses no longer extend to St Peters Road or Rockingham Hills but instead reach the Market Place by looping via New Road. The shorter route has enabled the experimental introduction of extra trips between Queensgate and Orton Waterville, which therefore gains a half-hourly service for much of the day. The extra trips are numbered 23 and run via Thorpe Road rather than Oundle Road. Lynch Wood also gets an improved peak hour service on route 23 (including a new 1909 from Lynch Wood), but Thrapston journeys on route 24 are further reduced and no longer run on Saturdays.
One journey on route 36 (Thorney - Peterborough) is extended from and to Holbeach Drove on Mondays to Fridays, leaving there at 0705, and returning from Peterborough at 1745. This is presumably a bus which is outstationed at Fowler's depot there. Journeys terminating in Thorney now loop via Sandpit Road and Park Crescent in order to turn round. A further change is that the 0845 Queensgate to Thorney now runs 10 minutes earlier.
On route 46, the 1645 Huntingdon to Peterborough journey now runs 10 minutes later.
14/01/12
Minor changes updated
Due to being extremely busy at work over the last few months, some changes from the latter part of 2011 were either overlooked or put to one side, as shown below. These have now been updated on relevant pages, except where shown:
From July 3rd Diamond Coaches of Rushden commenced a new Irchester to Peterborough service via Rushden, Raunds and Thrapston. It runs on the first Saturday of each month, and is numbered 203. Full details are available by cliking on route 203 on the Routes page (it's a large pdf file and may take a while to load).
In September there were minor changes to Stagecoach service 24. The 1245 from Thrapston to Oundle became a through journey to Peterborough at 1250, running via Rockingham Hills taking up the existing 1314 departure.
From October 3rd, services operated by Paul James Coaches (part of Veolia) were taken over by Centrebus. As far as Peterborough is concerned, this affected Uppingham to Peterborough service 47 (one journey on Mondays to Fridays only) which now starts and finishes at Oakham, but is otherwise unchanged between Uppingham and Peterborough. The other service taken over is LocalLink 413.
LocalLink services previously operated by Peterborough City Council are now operated by Enterprise Managed Services on behalf of the Council. For the time being they are still shown here as operated by the City Council.
Timings for some LocalLink services have changed and will be rechecked over the next few days.
29/12/11, updated 15/01/12
First Excel X1 to Lowestoft
From January 1st First Excel route X1 has some timetable revisions. Between Peterborough, Norwich and Great Yarmouth the service is unchanged, but the last journey from Peterborough which continues beyond Great Yarmouth to Lowestoft is now earlier at 1444 on Mondays to Saturdays and 1419 on Sundays. The last journey from Lowestoft to Peterborough is now one hour earlier on Mondays to Fridays at 1748 (1648 on Sundays), but the service from Great Yarmouth and Norwich to Peterborough is unchanged.
29/12/11
Rail Fares from January 2nd
Rail fares will be increasing by an average of 5.9% from January 2nd. The summary page of rail fares from Peterborough to London will be updated shortly.
29/12/11