2024 Surrey Tender Results

It's usually a bit later than this that we get to share the yearly Surrey County Council tender results, however the county council have already uploaded the results to their website so we are able to do so now. Thanks to blog reader Manny for the heads up. Most contracts that were put out this …

2024 – the year of the inconsistent timetable?

There are a number of revised timetables being introduced in the New Year that will require passengers to pay particular attention to their new times, be it due to uneven headways on consecutive journeys, or Saturday timetables having different clockface departures to the weekday timetable. Hopefully this sort of thing won't catch on... Fleet wise, …

Late August & Early September 2023 Service Changes

The next week or so will see a whole host of changes to bus services across our area, partly as a result of Surrey County Council tendering which sees Diamond South East lose much of their local stage carriage network, as partly as a result of commercial decisions by operators. The details of these are …

£2 cap operator and route exclusions

UPDATE: The scheme has now been extended for a further three months through April and May to Friday 30th June 2023, with all but one of the below operators now confirmed to be continuing to participate (Mole Valley Connect DRT still unable to confirm despite just one day to go…). Operators who didn't take part …

Christmas & New Year 2022-2023

Below is a summary of how bus services are set to operate in our local area over the Christmas and New Year period. Saturday 24th (Christmas Eve) Normal service, except: Safeguard (last bus 1945 from Guildford), Stagecoach (early finish around 2000), Thames Valley (early finish around 2000 except 703 which runs until midnight) Sunday 25th …

2022 Surrey Tender Results & Service Changes

As reported in our blog post of Tuesday 26th July, full or part operation of 25 individual routes spread over 20 contracts had been put out for tender by Surrey County Council and the bids received. All contracts commence Sunday 28th August, however with the Monday being a Bank Holiday then routes that don't operate …

Safeguard to take on some Stagecoach services & other Surrey tender news

It has been announced on the Stagecoach website that Safeguard Coaches are to take over operation of some Surrey County Council contracted services in Woking from Tuesday 30th August. The routes are as follows: 39A: Woking to Chobham (Mon/Wed/Fri)39B: Woking to Hermitage (Thursday)39C: Woking to Horsell (Tues/Thurs)40: Woking to Ripley (Tuesday)81: Woking to Barnsbury (Mon-Sat)690: …

Christmas & New Year 2021/22

With Christmas Day now just a fortnight away, below are the local service levels covering the Christmas and New Year period. Operators covered by this page: Bear Buses, Buses 4U, Carlone Limited, Compass Bus, Cresta Coaches, Diamond, Falcon Coaches, First Berkshire (including RailAir), Metrobus, Reading Buses (including Green Line), Reptons, Safeguard, Stagecoach, Thames Valley and …

2021 Academic Year Service Changes & Fleet Update

Some of the more major changes to local bus services usually occur in line with the start of the new academic year, although last year these were somewhat less in number than usual, due to the pandemic. This year's have been copied from the Service Changes page and reproduced below, for future reference. Above those …

Sunday Snowday

Having seen the Midands and North of the country receiving seemingly regular bouts of snowfall over the last fortnight, today was our turn to get a bit. Some disruption was caused to bus services running today, but local operators weren't just out running their usual Sunday services. Below are a number of photos showing our …