Devon & Cornwall Transit 2021 Week 16

The usual weekly look back on what has been published on the Registered Local Bus Services site over the last week. Click on the licence numbers for full details on each route including timetables and maps.

First South West registered a group of service changes for Somerset, one of them, the 30, enters into Devon and has a new timetable already in operation. The KERNOW side of the business has the new registrations for the Discover Exeter and Falmouth Coaster and then three new Newquay based open top services.

Plymouth Citybus made a short notice change to their 23/24 to increase service levels.

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH0000135.006	23 24	CIty Centre, Greenbank, Beaumont Road	City Centre	19-Apr-2021	Reduced timetable for Covid can't cope now retail has re - opened. Frequency increase Monday to Saturday.	PLYMOUTH CITYBUS LTD
PH0004983.490	30	Taunton, Parade	Axminster Railway station	21-Apr-2021	Temporary timetable variation due to Coronavirus Revised timetable to increase level of service on weekday timetables due to change in national lockdown rules	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.615	Discover Exeter	Exeter, St David's Station	Exeter, St David's Station	29-May-2021	New Daily service.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.608	Falmouth Coaster	Falmouth, The Moor	Falmouth, The Moor	16-May-2021	New Daily service.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.612	S1	Newquay, Tresillian Barton, Dairyland	Pentire Headland	29-May-2021	New Daily service.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.613	S2	Trevarrian, opp Travellers Rest	Pentire Headland	29-May-2021	New Daily service.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED
PH0004983.614	S3	RAF St Mawgan	Pentire Headland	29-May-2021	New Daily service.	FIRST SOUTH WEST LIMITED

Looking ahead to previously announced service changes that are happening this week, we have the Somerset 30 and Citybus 23/24 as above but we we also have a couple of changes for Stagecoach which don't trouble the Registered Local Bus Services. At least I think we do…

Licence	Route	Start Point	End Point	Effective	Notes	OPERATOR
PH1020951.038	4 4A 4B	Exeter Bus Station	Axminster Railway Station	18-Apr-2021	We are introducing a slightly revised timetable on our Route 4 buses which connect Exeter with Cranbrook, Ottery St Mary and Honiton. A new stop has been introduced on Younghayes Road in Cranbrook. This is great news for residents of the new houses in this area, as your walk to the stop is now even shorter! Buses which serve the full route, extending on to Honiton or Axminster will now serve Younghayes Road. Shorter trips between Cranbrook and Exeter will serve both Younghayes Road and Shareford Way. Stagecoach have published their new TT on their web site but Traveline still show the January 2021 times	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD
PH1020951.136	21 21A	Ilfracombe or Barnstaple	Appledore or Westward Ho!	18-Apr-2021	A new timetable is introduced to with minor timing improvements to allow for a more reliable service. (18th of April). No new TT published anywhere that I can see. SC own web site links to Traveline TT from january	STAGECOACH DEVON LTD

So the 4 does have a new timetable on the SC web site (at least they say its new but its undated) but Traveline still display the January timetables whilst for the 21 21A services Stagecoach link through to the Traveline timetable dated from January despite promising new times from 18th April. They do say they are minor timing improvements so it may be that the older timetables are still pretty much relevant in which case why confuse people by telling them? It does not help that the announcement on their web site was under the heading for service changes from the 4th April with the 18th mentioned in brackets! It really is next to impossible to track services by Stagecoach at the moment.I do wonder of Stagecoach have issues updating web site.

As has been mentioned in comments FSW have now released new timetables on Traveline for their new services so we will have having a closer look at a few of them this next week