STAGECOACH South West have announced that a new bus service that will provide a direct connection between Dartmouth, Totnes, Newton Abbot and Exeter.
From January 19, 2015, the X64 extension to Dartmouth will give residents direct connections to Totnes, Newton Abbot and Exeter up to every hour from Monday to Saturday. There will also be a later evening journey from Exeter bus station which will depart at 7.15pm travelling to Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton.
Michael Watson, Managing Director of Stagecoach South West, said: “I’m really excited about the changes to the X64 and being able to offer our customers a direct connection between Exeter and Dartmouth.”
From the same day, new timetables for Stagecoach Gold and the X46 are also being introduced. These will provide an hourly Sunday service on Stagecoach Gold and improve reliability for those travelling between Torquay and Exeter on the X46.
As a result of the introduction of the enhanced X64 timetable, Stagecoach Gold will no longer serve Dartmouth with existing key morning and evening connections transferred to the new X64 timetable.
The Stagecoach Gold Sunday service between Torquay, Totnes and Plymouth will also increase to every hour.
Mr Watson added: “It’s also great to see Stagecoach Gold continue to go from strength to strength. Since it launched, over a million passengers have ‘gone Gold’.”
A new X46 timetable is also being introduced, with the service retimed to take into account delays caused by the construction of the South Devon Link Road and Splatford Split widening. To accommodate this, buses during the daytime will no longer serve Paignton or Paignton Sea Front. Frequent connections between Torquay and Paignton are available on the Hop12, 22 and Stagecoach Gold instead. The X46 will continue to serve Paignton at the start and end of the day for commuters into Exeter.
He added: “Our X46 bus service provides an important connection for commuters between Exeter and Torquay and, whilst the current roadworks will improve things for everyone – including us – in the longer term, they are currently impacting on our service reliability. Shortening the route to the core section between Exeter and Torquay will address this and our Torbay bus network will ensure customers can still easily travel onto Paignton.”
There were Pointer Dart's out on both the D and S Exeter city routes tonight. Also due to the infamous Bickleigh Bridge being closed for roadworks, buses on the '55' routes to and from Tiverton were being diverted via the M5, with a shuttle service from Exeter to Bickleigh on the usual route - Solo WA04 TXL (47096) was on said shuttle.
a Dart on the H yesterday daytime as well. (I don't know whether the D + H routes are interworked or whether the diagrams keep them seperate)
I also saw that solo heading towards Tiverton yesterday and thought it was a little different!
An "Exeter" E400 has snuck down to Torbay and is on the 12. It's been confusing a fair few drivers due to its different start up and button layout.
Seats are rubbish as well
19093-5 came down from Exeter with the X64 but seem to be used generally on Torbay services. Seats may be tired but they were regularly used on the X38?so can't be bad buses.
Any ideas as to why Stagecoach have a Versa running around Exeter? Must be a right bugger maintaining a fleet of 1!
SourceAs of Monday 23rd March, Stagecoach West will be operating a service between Gloucestershire and North Bristol up to every hour.
The Belles Express will serve Waterwells Park & Ride, Aztec West, MoD Abbey Wood and the University of West of England; and at off peak times will also serve Cribbs Causeway.
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Wow, its a long time since a Gloucester-Bristol service ran.
Wow, its a long time since a Gloucester-Bristol service ran.
December 2000 apparently - one of those services I never did As has been said, it doesn't serve Bristol City centre and at two hours long, I doubt the old 308 had many end to end patrons!!
Font of all things Stagecoach (M Bonwick) stated that some of the former X5 B7Rs were heading to Stagecoach West for a new service - would appear this is it. Bit of a risk but let's hope it works
I'd heard they were for a Bristol service.
Well, actually....