Busway services over the Easter weekend

Stagecoach have announced what bus services they will be running over Easter. Good Friday and Easter Monday will have a Sunday bus service i.e. no evening buses. Easter Saturday and Sunday will have a normal Saturday and Sunday timetable.    Full details here.

Whippet likewise will be running a Sunday service on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Info here.

Christmas and New Year bus timetable alterations

An outline of Stagecoach bus services operating in Cambridgeshire over the Christmas and New Year period can be found here.

Christmas and New Year bus services on the Busway

Details of amended Stagecoach bus times for Christmas and New Year can be found here.

No Stagecoach service at all on 25th and 26th December, and 1st January. Early service finish on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Saturday service will run on 29th and 30th December.

There is no information as yet about Whippet's services over the holiday period on their website www.go-whippet.co.uk .

Easter bus services on busway routes A and B

Stagecoach have announced their amended timetables for the Easter holiday weekend.
See Stagecoach website here.

This table relating to the A and B route reached me by email :

Routes A and B on the Busway will operate the following service:

Thursday 17 April - normal service

Friday 18 April - Sunday service

Saturday 19 April - normal saturday service

Sunday 20 April - normal Sunday service

Monday 21 April - Sunday service

Tuesday 22 April - normal service resumes

More changes to service B timetable

Stagecoach are having to make changes to the service B timetable in order to improve punctuality. In an email today, they say these amendments will be introduced from Monday 5th August, but I assume that should read Monday 6th August. Here are the changes they are making:

• Buses from Peterborough, Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Huntingdon rail station are retimed to leave up to 15 minutes later.
• Buses from St Ives towards Huntingdon will arrive at Hartford and all stops to Hinchingbrooke Hospital up to 3 minutes later.
• Buses are retimed between Huntingdon and Peterborough to give extra time for the journey. All leave and arrive slightly later.
• Evening buses from Huntingdon to Cambridge after 1900 hours and return buses from Cambridge after 2000 hours run 10 minutes later throughout.
• There are no changes to bus times on The Busway track during the daytime.
• There are no changes to route A.

Attached to the email is a pdf of the amended timetable , but it does not yet appear on the Stagecoach website.

Despite what the email says, the revised departures from Peterborough seem generally to be 5 minutes after the current timetable. Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Huntingdon Rail Station departures are 15 minutes later than now. the Peterborough to Huntingdon running time is slowed from 48 to 58 minutes ( 44 to 49 minutes northbound), and Peterborough to Cambridge Drummer Street is now 2 hours 2 minutes ( 1 hour 59 minutes going north).

Evening buses on service B from Drummer Street will leave at 1953 (as now), then 2103, 2133, 2233 and 2333. There are As from New Square (but not Drummer Street) plugging the long gap between the 1953 and 2103  B departures.

I guess they will now have to reprint their recently published timetable booklet!