Major changes are coming to Stagecoach’s Busway services from 30th August. They’re different from the major developments announced last November but, for some passengers, no less significant.
Retained from that original plan is the switching of routes within the Cambridge city boundary: Busway A services will operate Trumpington Park & Ride/St Ives and travel via Shire Hall and Orchard Park (although inbound services will be diverting via CRC and the Science Park for the next year or so as a result of the Histon Road closure); Busway B services will operate Parkside/ Hinchingbrooke Hospital and go to Cambridge North, then out via the Science Park.
Each route will operate every 20 minutes – hourly on Sundays. The B will continue to operate an hourly service until late evening. As now, single deck vehicles will run on the A, and double deckers on the B.
The existing D and R services will be withdrawn (the R has already been suspended for several months).
All other existing Busway services are cancelled and replaced by non-Busway services. Busway-fitted vehicles will, in future, operate only on the Busway between St Ives Park & Ride and Marley Road or Hinchingbrooke Hospital, and between the two Busway sections within Cambridge.
“Feeder” services (or “rural connections”) will be provided by new services V1-V4 (serving, respectively, Ramsey, Chatteris, Somersham and Boxworth), operating a similar service to the existing “through” workings, but requiring passengers to change at St Ives. Would-be passengers should note that Stagecoach do NOT guarantee these connections. The V4 will be adding a number of St Ives/Fenstanton trips on Saturdays. There’s also a new service V5 providing a an early-morning service from Godmanchester and late-evening return journeys, but this is operated as an extension of existing B trips, and it’s not necessary to change buses.
Huntingdon/Peterborough journeys are replaced by a new hourly Mon-Sat service, 904, operating from St Ives and routed to Huntingdon via Houghton Clock Tower, but skipping the St Ives and Huntingdon estates (which continue to be served by route B).
Cambridge/Royston journeys are replaced by a new 915 service, mostly hourly, operating to/from Drummer Street, skipping the Railway Station and Biomedical Campus and travelling instead down Trumpington Road and Trumpington High Street (connect to an A at the Park & Ride for the “skipped” destinations).
Stagecoach only made this information publicly available on 21st August. But their website has been updated and includes all of the new timetables, a route map and a set of FAQs.
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