Boxing Day 2016's buses

Happy Christmas to all our readers!

We're seeing more bus routes running on Boxing Day than ever before here in the South. Here are the details:

A full Sunday service will be running on Bluestar (except route 6 Southampton-Lymington which isn't running) and Stagecoach (except route 5 Salisbury-Swindon, which won't be running).

More have a Sunday service on routes m1/m2 (first buses 0600), 4, 5/6, 8/9, 13, 14, 16/17, X3, X8 and Breezer 40 & 50 only.

On top of that, we have a skeleton service of special timetables being provided by:

Unilink U1 in Southampton:

First Southampton routes 2, three, 7, 10 and 11:

First Portsmouth/Fareham routes 1, 2, 3, 7, E1 and E2:

Yellow Buses 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, 4b, 14, 5a, 5b and 6 in Bournemouth:

Salisbury Reds R1 and X3:

Activ8 Salisbury-Andover: Stagecoach journeys will run to a Sunday timetable, but Salisbury Reds journeys will not run.

There will be no service on Xelabus, Wheelers or other smaller operators, nor on any other route not mentioned above.