SAPPHIRE - Newcastle Upon Tyne to Dinnington

Service updates

• Bishops Stortford Station is about to get better

  Improvements are to be made to bus access and bus stops at Bishop's Stortford Station which will enable us to give a better service to our customers. There will be some temporary disruption over the summer holiday period while the development work is in progress.

• Radio 1 Big Weekend - Middlesbrough Diversion of Services 28, 28A, 29 and 63

  

   

  Passengers are advised that during the Radio 1 Big Weekend festival from Friday 24th until Sunday 26th May, there will be various road closures in affect around Stewarts Park in Middlesbrough.

• Re-opening of Killingworth Road in Newcastle Changes to services 54, X7 and X8 from Monday 20th May 2019

  Killingworth Road in Newcastle will re-open to southbound traffic from Monday 20th May 2019. As a result, there will be some changes to the routes and timetables of services 54, X7 and X8.

• Major weekend roadworks in Strood from 10th May 2019

  

  Major roadworks are taking place in Strood most weekends from 10th May 2019 until the end of July.

  This will result in a series of weekend road closures between 8pm each Friday and 5.30am each Monday and diversions to bus routes 133, 140, 141, 190, 191 and 700.

• Service changes in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear from Sunday 19th May

  There will be changes to some services in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear from Sunday 19th May 2019 to improve punctuality, better match capacity with demand and respond to requests we have received from customers in several places.

• Diversion to service 61 in Almonds Green, West Derby

  From Friday 10th May for approximately 14 days, Almonds Green will be closed from the junction of Muirhead Avenue to the junction of Castleview Road to safely enable Dowhigh Limited to resurface the highway as part of the Better Roads programme of works.

• Stand changes at the Newcastle Haymarket Bus Station from Sunday 19th May

  There will be some changes to stand allocation in the Newcastle Haymarket Bus Station from Sunday 19th May 2019.

• Service changes in the Kirklees area

  There will be changes in the Kirklees area affecting services 202/203, 212, 228, 251, 256, 261 and 271.

• Service changes in the Wakefield area

  There will be changes in the Wakefield area affecting services 104, 105, 212 and TK2.

• Bus services to the Lichfield Bower

  On Monday 27th May 2019, we will be providing dedicated services to the Lichfield Bower.

• Changes to Medway Towns bus times from 11th May 2019

  We will be making changes to the times of some of our services in the Medway Towns to improve reliability and will also separate the service linking Chatham Rail and Bus Stations with Chatham Maritime, the universities and Gillingham Strand from the 190 and 191 to be operated by new Services 1 and 2.

• May bank holiday service changes in Kent & Medway

  There will be temporary changes to services in Kent & Medway due to the May bank holidays on the 6th and 27th May.

  This will affect services 6X, 132, 140/141, 166, 176/177, 483 and 700.

• Service changes in Rhyl

  Service changes in Rhyl will be affecting services 11, 11A, 11C, 11F, 11M, 11X, 12, 35 and 36.

• Changes to some services in Milton Keynes

  There will be changes to services 8/8A, 300/310 and 301 in Milton Keynes from 28 April 2019.

• Changes to services in Selby from Monday 29th April

  We will be making changes to our bus services in the Selby area from Monday 29th April 2019.

• Diversion to service 130 in Cheadle

  Due to a one-way road closure on Manchester Road, Cheadle, from Monday 29 April 2019 for approximately 5 weeks service 130 will be diverted.

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