A summary of forthcoming changes to bus services in Derbyshire (as at 17 March 2010).
New timetables for revised services are published in the Online Timetable Library as soon as possible. Use the link in the information on other websites section below to visit the Library.
From Sunday 14 March 2010
- Service HOP (Notts and Derby "Free Shopper Hopper"): The Derby City Centre hopper service will be withdrawn.
- Service LB69 (Gills Travel): The Ilkeston late-night local service will be withdrawn.
From Saturday 20 March 2010
- Services X52 and X53 (Alton Towers): The Derby to Alton Towers services will re-commence for the summer season, until 31 October.
From Sunday 28 March 2010
- The new Derby Bus Station will open for use, and most buses to and from Derby city centre will commence from within the new station. A few services will continue to depart from stops in nearby streets.
- Services 40 and 41 (Arriva Midlands): These services will have revised timetables.
- Services 44 and 45 (Arriva Midlands): These services will have slightly revised timetables.
- Service 53 (Stagecoach Mansfield): All journeys will run via Scarcliffe, and there will be some minor timetable changes.
- Service PRO (Stagecoach in Chesterfield/Trent Barton "Pronto"): There will be some minor timetable changes.
Easter Holiday bus service arrangements
- Good Friday 2 April: Most bus services in Derbyshire will run to the normal Friday timetables, but a few (mostly in the North-Western part of Derbyshire) will run to special timetables, whilst a number will run to the Saturday times.
- Easter Monday 5 April: Most bus services will run to the Sunday timetables.
- For more details, see the Easter Bus Services item in the related documents section below.
From Sunday 18 April 2010
- Service 392 (Speedwellbus): An hourly daytime service between Glossop and Gamesley will be introduced, running on Mondays to Saturdays.
- Service D1 (Veolia): This Mondays-only service to Bakewell will be revised to call additionally at Heanor, Loscoe and Ripley, with an amended timetable.
- Service D3 (Veolia): The Wednesdays-only service to Bakewell will be withdrawn.
From Sunday 25 April 2010
- Service SKY (Kinchbus "Skylink"): This service will be revised to offer some additional journeys to Leicester, with some minor changes to times. Evening buses will run via Kegworth, and Loughborough Railway Station will no longer be served.
From Sunday 2 May 2010
- On May Day Bank Holiday Monday, 3 May 2010, a Sunday timetable will run on most services.
- NB In addition to the changes listed below, other service alterations are expected to take place on this date. Details will be added here when they are available.
- Service 6·1 (Trent Barton): The 2249 Millers Green to Matlock bus (operated by Stagecoach) will run additionally on Fridays and Saturdays.
- Service 17 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): On Mondays to Fridays the 1640 Matlock to Chesterfield bus will be withdrawn. On Sundays the service will no longer run between Matlock and Ashbourne, with a revised timetable. (The Matlock to Ashbourne section of route will be served by an alternative service.)
- Service 39 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): Some late afternoon and early evening buses on Mondays to Fridays will run a few minutes earlier.
- Services 43, 44 and 44A (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): Service 44A will be extended to serve Chesterfield, and on Mondays to Fridays it will run via Newbold and Sheepbridge Industrial Estate to replace Service 120. A new timetable will be introduced as a consequence.
- Service 50 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): The afternoon service on Mondays to Fridays will be supplemented by the some journeys on Service 99 being extended to Sheffield.
- Service 51 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): The 0645 Chesterfield to Danesmoor bus and the 0718 Danesmoor to Chesterfield bus will run three minutes earlier.
- Services 97 and 98 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): Service 98 will run via Birkinstyle Lane instead of Stonebroom Estate, and there will be some minor timetable changes.
- Service 99 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield): Some late afternoon journeys on Mondays to Fridays will be extended to Sheffield.
- Service 70 (Stagecoach in Chesterfield/TM Travel): On Mondays to Fridays, the 1555 Chesterfield to Mastin Moor bus will be extended to Eckington, and the 1622 Mastin Moor to Chesterfield will be withdrawn cancelled. There will be some other minor timetable changes too. Some Sunday morning journeys into Chesterfield will be extended to serve additional places.
- Service 120 (TM Travel): This service will be replaced by Stagecoach Chesterfield service 44A, which will run at similar times between Chesterfield and Sheepbridge Industrial Estate (on Mondays to Fridays), and extend to Dronfield. The Friday and Saturday late bus from Chesterfield will continue to be operated by TM Travel, but will run as Service 44B.
- Services 236 and 237 (Stagecoach Manchester): These buses will run as “limited stop” services between Ashton and Manchester, stopping only at Ashton Bus Station, Audenshaw (Snipe Retail Park), Droylsden (Market Street), Droylsden (Edge Lane), Sportcity (MCFC), Ancoats (Pollard Street) then all stops to Piccadilly. Between Glossop and Ashton all stops will still be served. The timetable will be unchanged, except that the 0845 Hadfield to Ashton bus will be withdrawn.
- Service B1 (TM Travel): This service will run as an extension to services B2 and B3, but the times will be the same.