July 2016
The new development is by the roundabout just north of Braxells Farm.
Some are already completed, so from Monday Xelabus launch a new route, the X5, which will connect the new development with Hedge End Railway Station.
The new development is right next to the Braxells Farm bus stop. Initially, it will only run at peak hours:
It enables residents of the new homes to catch the bus to Hedge End Station in time for these trains. You can also connect there for First 8 and Xelabus X9.
Just down the road from the development at the Pear Tree pub is where Bluestar 3 terminates.
The stops at Braxells Farm are also served between the peaks by Xelabus X15, which has a new timetable (with only minor timing changes) from Monday:
Fantastic!!Bluestar are running a Saturday service on most routes on Good Friday!!about time!
ReplyDeleteFirst are increasing the price of their Millbrook and cityred 10 weekly tickets to £6 from Thursday!
ReplyDeleteWatch blue Star leave theirs at 5 pounds just to rub firsts nose in it for starting the silly price war.
DeleteYellows are on Twiiter "We've been in Ringwood promoting our B4 Bourne Line service.
ReplyDeleteCatch a bus to Bournemouth for just £2.40 or even cheaper with a Glocard!"
That fare's a little less than half More charge, but would any sensible person want
to take about 1 hour 20 getting there against 33 with More's X3, or less with X6?
Well Summer is coming, so they could catch some poor tripper.
Do Xelabus still have the 2010 E200's that were ex NAT Group, Cardiff does anyone know?
ReplyDeleteThursday's NP notice saw more changes for yellow buses from 30 April, some are already on Traveline.
ReplyDeleteThe new routes are an extended C1 incorporating part of 20 to Castlepoint.
D1 will run from Christchurch to Poole incorporating the 33 and the Poole section of the 20.
H1 replaces the 18 from Bournemouth to Broadstone.
U8 replaces the 36 from Kinson via Bournemouth to Branksome Heath.
Quite a lot of journeys are being cut this time and many routes will start later in the morning and finish earlier in the evening.
DeleteIn the case of the H1 and U8, they are more a case of renumbering (but on a new registration), rather than a replacement.
DeleteNice tidying up of the subsidised part of the network by Yellows here. The C1 brings back much of the classic "Super Route 17" and will be more sustainable then the current short route. U8 explains the gap in numbering, and I guess the "H" in "H1" stands for Heath which makes a lot more sense then some of the naming. But D1? At least it returns a no-change link between Poole and Bournemouth (something that either Yellows or W&D had provided for about 30-odd years until Jan) but surely that should be P4 or R5? Do we really need yet another line? Is it "D" for District? If so that's the most nonsensical "line" yet!
ReplyDeleteD1 is short for Dolphin Line 1.
DeleteIt is actually the Dolphin Line.
ReplyDeleteSo the bus that goes nearer to Christchurch Priory than any of the Prioryline buses, and goes out of it's way more to serve RBH than any of the Royalline buses, is named D1 as the only member of Dolphinline. Presumably because it serves the Dolphin Centre, just like R1/R2 of Royalline (amongst others) already do. Great system guys! Not unnecessarily confusing at all...
DeleteThey appear to have made a complete hash of their revamp and now compound their errors. All operators that make wholesale changes are showing is that they have fundamental problems in their business. First in Southampton have made this mistake frequently and continue to suffer as a result. The public like stability.
DeleteAh I wondered when the go ahead fan club would appear.
DeleteRe post at 17.37 on 22 March 2017:
ReplyDeleteIn my post at 08.46 on 19 March 2017 - I explained how the 4 existing numbered (tendered) routes were moved across into the Alpha range.
The January 2017 Dolphinline booklet listed solely the 20 - Castlepoint - Bournemouth - Poole (Dolphin Centre).
The northern section of the 20 to Castlepoint in April will become part of an extended C1 to Alum Chine. What goes around comes around - this was once route 24.
As has been said D1 is the sole Dolphinline route, now linking the 33 to the Poole section of the 20. The 33 was in the January Prioryline leaflet.
Presumably this is to answer critics that no route went from Poole to Christchurch - but what a tortuous route and it does not serve Poole Hospital.
There are currently eight timetable booklets B, C, D, H, P, R, U and V, three only contain one route - C, D and H. Morebus has one timetable booklet for the whole area and it will fit in a jacket pocket.
The D1 will serve Poole Hospital, just the back entrance along Parkstone Road.
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