The bus improvements in and around Gloucester & Cheltenham will start 03rd March 2024. The details are not yet on the Stagecoach website but timetables are on TravelineSW and can be summarised thus:
- 1 (City Centre - Matson): additional journeys are 0010 & 0050 from City Centre and 0026 & 0106 from Matson on Friday and Saturday nights. The 0106 from Matson will be numbered as Service N1.
- 2 (City Centre - Abbeydale & Upton St. Leonard): the 2230 from the City Centre & 2244 to City Centre now show as running Mondays to Saturdays; additional journeys are 2330 & 0030 from City Centre and 2344 & 0044 from Abbeymead & USL on Friday and Saturday nights.
- 8 (Hunts Grove - Brockworth): On Friday and Saturday nights 2323 Quedgeley - City Centre extends to Brockworth and 2315 Brockworth - City Centre extends to Quedgeley. Extra journeys 0015 Brockworth - Quedgeley and 0023 Quedgeley - Brockworth. Introduction of Service N8 (0115 Quedgeley - City Centre & 0115 Brockworth - City Centre).
- 10 (Gloucester - Cheltenham): no timetable changes but introduction of N10 on Friday & Saturday nights: journeys 0115 Cheltenham - Gloucester City Centre and 0107 Lower Tuffley - Brockworth.
- 12 (Gloucester - Quedgeley): extra journeys 0010 from City Centre and 0024 from Quedgeley as well as addition of Service N12 (0110 from City Centre & 0125 from Quedgeley) on Friday and Saturday nights.
- 24 (Gloucester - Coleford) to run to Monmouth on Sundays & Bank Holidays every 2 hours. No extra evening journeys.
- 32 (Gloucester - Newent): extra journeys 2050, 2150 & 2300 from Gloucester and 218, 2218 & 2320 from Newent.
- 71 (Gloucester - Northway): additional journeys 1947, 2047 and 2147 from Gloucester & 1932, 2032, 2132 & 2232 from Northway on Mondays to Thursdays. Extra journeys 2247 from Gloucester and 2332 from Northway on Friday and Saturday nights. Also new Sunday & Bank Holiday service running hourly.
Has anyone heard anything about the proposed S2 to hourly or Carterton to Oxford direct routes that were mentioned at the time of the bsip+ announcement for Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire?
No new timetable for the S2 but the extra journeys would be very useful.
HTIOI,
Dave