DaveHarries
Established Member
Ah I wasn't aware of the interworking. In that case perhaps they might drop Carterton completely given that it isn't short of buses to / from Oxford and perhaps 6bph from somewhere like Carterton is overdoing it a bit. Saying that I don't know what the passenger flows were like in normal times. I guess we will know more in the next few weeks.The 853 was run by an independent operator for years from the Cheltenham end and Stagecoach simply took it over from there, nothing to do with Witney. This proposal is clever as the running time from Carterton to Burford and then on to Cheltenham is just an hour so they can run a two hourly service with just one extra vehicle extending the S2. There will have to be some other changes though as the S2 and H2 interwork at Carterton. I suspect it will run via Carterton but perhaps not the present loop.
Dave