Winchester, Eastleigh & Southampton changes from 3rd September

Here's a summary of the changes we know about to bus services in Southampton, Eastleigh and Winchester taking place over the weekend of 3rd September. We have changes on Stagecoach, Bluestar, Xelabus and Wheelers. Click the route numbers below to see the new timetables:


Stagecoach 7 Winchester-Sparsholt: The peak hour extension to Kings Somborne is withdrawn but one journey per weekday will run to and from Salisbury.

Stagecoach 46 Winchester-North Baddesley: College journeys are cut meaning that only 3 or 4 journeys will run on weekdays only.

Stagecoach 64 Winchester-Alton: Minor changes.

Stagecoach 66 Winchester-Romsey: Minor changes.

Xelabus X4 Eastleigh-Hedge End: Minor changes and Sunday service introduced.

Xelabus X6/X7 Eastleigh-Hiltingbury: Sunday service cut back to run between Eastleigh & Velmore only. Other minor changes.

Xelabus X8 Eastleigh-Boyatt Wood: Sunday service replaced by new journeys on route X9.

Xelabus X9 Eastleigh-Bishops Waltham: Sunday service introduced between Eastleigh and Colden Common. Other minor changes.

Xelabus X10 Southampton-Bishops Waltham: Minor changes.

Xelabus X11 Southampton-Lordshill North: Minor changes. New timetable not yet available.

Xelabus X15 Eastleigh-Hamble: Minor changes.

Bluestar 6 Southampton-Lymington: Minor changes to running times.

Wheelers W1 Southampton-Romsey: Curtailed to run between Southampton and Romsey on weekdays only. Abbotswood section and Saturday services withdrawn.

Salisbury Reds X7 Southampton-Salisbury: The 1645 journey from Salisbury will revert to terminating at West Wellow instead of continuing to Southampton. Please note that the last bus from Paultons Park back to Southampton will now be at 1628 instead of 1745.


We'll have another post explaining what's happening over in Bournemouth and Salisbury on that same weekend. There are also more changes happening later in September, which we will cover in due course.

Don't forget your at-a-glance guide to all upcoming changes here.

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Changes in Fareham from 3rd September

First Solent have announced some changes to services from 3rd September.

The biggest change is a slight frequency cut to the Eclipse E1/E2 services between Fareham and Gosport. The combined frequency will be every 6 mins Mon-Sat daytimes. See the new timetable here.

The 28/28A between Fareham and Whiteley also have a new timetable, plus a route change. They will no longer serve Parkway and Solent Business Park, with the nearest stops being on Whiteley Way.

A slight change also to the 7A schools service in Portsmouth.


There are many services changing in our region on the same weekend, which we will cover in subsequent posts. You can always see an at-a-glance summary of all upcoming changes here.

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Changes this weekend 22nd/23rd July

Several changes across the region this weekend. Click the route numbers for timetables. Here are the full details:

Starting in Bournemouth and Poole with changes on More, and Yellow Buses:

• More 60 Poole-Sandbanks - Seasonal frequency increase to half-hourly every day from 22nd July until 2nd September
• More 70 Poole-Bournmouth - Seasonal service runs daily from 22nd July until 2nd September
• More 99 Beach Bus Hythe-Lymington - Seasonal service runs daily from 23rd July until 2nd September
• Yellow C1 Alum Chine-Castlepoint - Frequency increase and open top buses on some journeys
• Yellow P4 Westbourne-Southbourne - New weekday-only route designed to attack More M2's recent extension
• Yellow R1-R3 Royal Line - Minor changes plus open top buses on R2 between Bournemouth and Poole
• Yellow V1-V4 Village Line - V3 and V4 withdrawn. Replaced by additional journeys on V1 and V2. Combined daytime frequency down from 8 buses an hour to 6
• Southbourne S1/S2 in Ringwood had been scheduled to end on 4th August, but the services have already ended, in breach of the statutory 56 days notice of any changes that operators have to give to the DVSA

In Salisbury, the 20 to Blandford, currently run by Dorset County Council, transfers to Damory from Monday.
Salisbury Reds X7 has some minor changes including an additional afternoon journey towards Southampton via Paulton's Park

Winchester has several new timetables on Stagecoach as covered in our previous post.

Changes also to most Stagecoach routes in Portsmouth & Havant as previously covered here.


Big changes in most parts of our region from September - see a summary here.

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Winchester Bus Station closes... for now

Winchester's bus station is being done up, so from today all buses in the city will run from temporary stops on Broadway:

Find more details on the City Council's website.

For live departure times from the temporary stops, click the stop number:
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10

While we're in Winchester, it's worth mentioning that Stagecoach have new timetables on routes 1, 3, 5, 66 and The Spring from 23rd July. Click here for the timetables.

Staying with Stagecoach and they have changes in Portsmouth & Havant from the same date on routes 20, 21, 23, 37 and 39. Full details and timetables here.

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Ageas Bowl event buses to Parkway Station

Between Monday 17th July and Friday 18th August, when there are events on at the Ageas Bowl in West End, First will be running free buses between the venue and Southampton Airport Parkway Station as new route 14.

If you think this route might be of use to you, don't look for it on First's website...

The timetable can however be found on Traveline, but bear in mind that it only runs on certain days and the times are different for each day that it does run. If in doubt, use Traveline's journey planner.

To travel along that route during civilised hours, use Xelabus X4.

See all routes serving West End here.

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Southbourne surrenders... and other stories

We did have a timetable change pencilled in for Yellow R1 (Poole to Bournemouth Hospital) from 21st June, but it looks like that was a false alarm. Yellow Buses do have a few changes however from 23rd July. Full details here. There will be new timetables on routes C1, R1/R2/R3, V1/V2, new route P4 with routes V3/V4 being withdrawn. Click the route numbers for the new timetables.

It's a late start for the New Forest Tour this year, which doesn't launch until 8th July.

Due to roadworks in Salisbury there will be temporary timetables on Salisbury Reds routes X7, X7R and PR15 for several weeks. Full details here.

Southbourne Buses launch their open top route, the S12 between Bournemouth Pier and Hengistbury Head from 1st July. Timetable here.

They're joined on 30th July and 13th August only by an almost identical S12 route operated by Bear Cross Bus. Timetable here.

Back to Southbourne Buses though, and their existing routes S1 and S2 in Ringwood, which have been involved in a rather farcical kerfuffle with More's Ringo services. Southbourne have given up and will pull the plug on Ringwood from 4th August.

23rd July sees timetable changes on Stagecoach in Winchester, Portsmouth and Havant. Routes affected are the 1, 3, 5, Activ8, 20, 21, 23, 37, 39, 66 and Spring. Click the route numbers/names to see the new timetables.

Warsash, Stonehenge & Southbourne

First W2, the Saturday-only shopper service between Warsash and Whiteley got a new timetable yesterday together with a route change to serve more of Warsash. See the new timetable here. The route around Locks Heath differs depending on which direction the bus is travelling in. To make sense of it all, here's the full list of stops served:

Salisbury Reds have revealed their plans to get people to and from Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice. Full details here.

Over in Bournemouth, with More M2's recent extension to Southbourne Crossroads, Yellow P3 is clearly feeling the pressure. It will be suppemented from 23rd July by a new route, the P4 which will run every 20 mins weekday daytimes between Southbourne Crossroads and Westbourne. See the timetable here.

Bluestar 2 half-hourly on Sundays / New timetables

There are changes to Bluestar routes 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12 and 18 from Sunday. See the full details here.

The main change is a doubling of the Sunday daytime frequency on the 2 to every half an hour.

Here are your links to the new timetables:

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2
5
7
11
12
18