All Services: Timetable Changes
31st August 2014
Network changes
- New Service 147 is introduced, running an hourly daytime frequency, Mondays to Saturdays, between Worcester, Bromsgrove and Halesowen. The service replaces a number of Service 144A journeys as an extension to that route, operating over the same route between Worcester and Bromsgrove, then running via Sidemoor, Catshill, Wildmoor, Romsley, Mucklow Hill to Halesowen. The service is intended to partly replace Service 007 run by Central Buses, which is withdrawn at this time.
- Malvern to Upton-Upon-Severn Service 41, Service 42, Service 42F, Service 42G, Service 43 and Service 43G are withdrawn with the end of Country Council subsidises. These are partly replaced by extending Service 362, Service 364, and Service 365 to Great malvern.
- Service 363 is ectended to Tewkesbury, and new Service 373 is introduced as a variation over the same route but additionally serving The Graftons and villages between Upton-upon-Severn and Tewkesbury
- New timetable for Service 420. From this time, all Sunday journeys are withdrawn due to the expiry of a Herefordshire Council contract, and times on other days are slightly revised. English Concession Permits are now available to use throughout the 0915 journey from Worcester to Hereford.
- Evening Service 382 journeys are withdrawn due to the expiry of a Worcestershire County Council contract.
- First Midland Red Buses Limited successfully win a 7-year contract from Herefordshire County Council to operate rural services in the Hereford area. New Service 426, Service 437, Service 446, Service 453, Service 454 and Service 477 are all introduced as part of this new contract.
- New School Service S45 is introduced providing a direct journey from Barnt Green, Rednal and Lickey area to South Bromsgrove High School.