Trivia: industrial estates with 7 day frequent and evening services

[Simon75]

Walton industrial estate in Stone , Staffordshire, has a 7 day week every 30 minutes and evening service , three 101 Hanley to Stafford
Are many other examples ?

 

[tjwpsv]

Not strictly an industrial estate as such, but the BMW car factory in Cowley is linked to Oxford city centre by Oxford Bus Company's 11X on a 10 minute frequency for much of the day, 7 days a week.

11X - BMW Car Factory Gate - Oxford City Centre - BMW Car Factory Gate

Timetable for 11X - BMW Car Factory Gate - Oxford City Centre - BMW Car Factory Gate

www.oxfordbus.co.uk

 

[Deerfold]

Not strictly an industrial estate as such, but the BMW car factory in Cowley is linked to Oxford city centre by Oxford Bus Company's 11X on a 10 minute frequency for much of the day, 7 days a week.

11X - BMW Car Factory Gate - Oxford City Centre - BMW Car Factory Gate

Timetable for 11X - BMW Car Factory Gate - Oxford City Centre - BMW Car Factory Gate

www.oxfordbus.co.uk

I caught that bus a couple of times last month. On both occasions I waited around 25 minutes for an 11X around lunchtime. Their app showed buses every 8 minutes, but each time at least two buses counted down to zero but did not arrive. On the second occasion I ended up catching the hourly 11.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Walter industrial estate in Stine , Staffordshire, has a 7 day week every 30 minutes and evening service , three 101 Hanley to Stafford
Are many other examples ?

It isn't exactly an evening service, especially on a Sunday. Last buses are:

• To Stafford 2041 (M-S) 1747 (Sun)
• To Stone 2132 (M-S) 1833 (Sun)
• To Hanley 2047 (M-S) 1833 (Sun)

Cobalt business park in North Tyneside on a SUNDAY gets buses to:

• Killingworth (and Cramlington) every 30 mins day, hourly evenings
• Newcastle, Blyth and Whitley Bay every 4 buses per hour, 2 per hour evenings
  • An extra route goes hourly via another route to Whitley Bay
• North Shields - 6 buses per hour to North Shields, 2 per hour evenings

Cobalt is comprised of two halves (North and South) and so the routes serve different areas but it is a large commercial area

There will be simply tens of examples (if not more) across the country.

 

[SSmith2009]

Leicester Area:

Optimus Point in Glenfield, Leicestershire is served 7 days a week with First Leicester service 13 which runs 6am to 11pm Mon-Sat and has recently had a Sunday service introduced every hour 9am to 5pm.

Braunstone Frith industrial estate &as First Leicester service 14 running frequent buses between 5.30am and 11pm Mon - Sat and 9am to 11pm on Sundays

Magna Park in Leicestershire also has hourly buses on Arriva services 8 (Hinckley to Lutterworth) and X84 (Leicester - Lutterworth- Rugby) then workers service X45 (Leicester to Magna Park) with three daily journeys coinciding with shift patterns.

 

[adrock1976]

Westfield Park along Westfield Road (Cumbernauld) is served by the First Glasgow X3 daily, being as it is on the way to/from Mollins Interchange and Craiglinn.

At the other end of Cumbernauld, Wardpark Ind Estate (Castlecary Road) is served by (now) McGills X37 Glasgow - Falkirk daily, although it does not run late evenings.

 

[NorthernSpirit]

Historically the 278 (Halifax to Dewsbury) sort of served the Armytage Road Industrial Estate in Brighouse hourly 7 days a week. In that it ran along the A644 (Wakefield Road) into/out of Brighouse with the industrial estate immediatley to the south of the A644 when looking on a map, it has on some occations actually ran through the industial estate when there has been roadworks on the A644 (Wakefield Road).

Now there is nothing, considering Arriva who ran the 278 binned the route in 2017 and Yorkshire Tiger replaced it with the 78/X78 (Halifax to Brighouse) and the 262 (Brighouse to Huddersfield via Upper Hopton), however the replacements didn't last long and were soon withdrawn with only the former being partially replaced, the latter being lost completely.

 

[Seagull2006]

The industrial estates around Tewkesbury get a bus every 15-30 minutes, with 2 routes (41 to Cheltenham and 71 to Gloucester) serving the estates for most of the day, and 3 in the evenings when the 42 goes to Ashchurch station instead of Mitton after 5pm

 

[Statto]

38, 38A Mill Park or Eastham Ferry extensions, all operate via Bromborough Industrial Estate, the 38 Monday to Saturday is hourly over this section, 38A Evening & Sunday is hourly throughout.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Believe that the number 19 bus service (Wythenshawe -> Altrincham) has a seven days a week, all day long service via the Roundthorn Industrial Estate (one of South Manchester's most established industrial and commercial areas, according to the commercial blurb, in other words, it's a little tired looking).

Clunky link to timetable....

https://assets.ctfassets.net/nv7y93idf4jq/5EwdZYqp8uhhCcMSIZ0FU4/d733d348b14a82eeb7a222e4a795a214/19_Altrincham_23-SC-0003.pdf

 

[Djb1]

Its not the core destination, but Sharston Industrial estate in Manchester is on the 24/7 43 service (10 minutes daytime, 15 mins sundays, 30 evenings/overnight)

https://assets.ctfassets.net/nv7y93idf4jq/2WBMbNiSvQ6BzuXr398zs/a79fe387ecd94527f99954edaabafb18/43_21-SC-0552.pdf

The estate is also served by the 103 21 hours a day, and the 370/1 every half hour (hourly eves/sunday)

 

[Wolvercoter]

Milton Park near Didcot qualifies with various services including X2, X32, 33 to Abingdon, Didcot, Wantage, Oxford and Wallingford. Evening and Sunday services provided.

 

[WibbleWobble]

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned the daddy of all industrial estates - Trafford Park!

Not 24 hours unlike Sharston, it is served up to 21 hours a day - and served by three modes of public transport.

 

[Flange Squeal]

The Houndmills Industrial Estate in Basingstoke, Hampshire, sees Stagecoach South's route 6 run right through it between around 0530-2300 weekdays, 0700-2300 Saturdays, and 0900-2030 Sundays. Frequency is every 15 mins Mon-Sat daytime, 20 mins Sunday daytime, and half-hourly every evening. It's probably more the fact that it lies between the town centre/railway station and the Winklebury residential area that it sees such a good service though, rather than it being the main draw itself.

The eastern side of the industrial estate also sees the 2 running through up to every 15 mins Mon-Sat 0600-2300, and 20 mins on Sundays 0830-2000, on its way between the town centre and hospital (dropping to half-hourly then hourly in the evenings).

 

[RMcE]

Knowsley Industrial Park in Kirkby has a couple of routes which do a lap along with a number of routes which pass by on or terminate on the South Boundary Road

 

[LiviCrazy]

Maxim Park in Eurocentral is served all day and night 7 days a week by the Citylink 900. Was somewhat surprised myself when the 900 pulled in there after 11 at night.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) at Crick is served by Stagecoach D1 and 96 to provide services throughout the day from 0600 to 2300; Sundays is a smaller affair with the D1 only operating and very much at defined shift changeover times

Similarly, service 55 serves both Swan Valley and Pineham distribution parks between 0600 and 2300 and the hourly daytime service M-S is scaled back to specific shift changeovers on a Sunday