Stagecoach are making a considerable number of changes to services in Cambridge and the surrounding area from 1st November. Full details (including links to revised timetables) are available on the Stagecoach website, and there’s also a booklet available for downloading.
The Busway changes are essentially being introduced to:
- provide more capacity (additional services);
- provide additional travel options on the feeder routes;
- improve service reliability (retimings).
Service B is being extended to serve the Railway Station and the Biomedical Campus. As a result, this service will usually be operated by single-decker vehicles. An additional double-decker, peak-time service (Monday to Friday) – service C – will be introduced between St Ives Park & Ride and Cambridge City Centre. Some of these journeys will serve the Railway Station and (during college terms) Long Road Sixth Form College.
Service A will start earlier in the morning (every day) and continue to late evening (Mon-Sat) or early evening (Sun), operate to an increased frequency for much of the time, and extend to/from Trumpington Park & Ride on Sundays.
Service B will operate to/from Trumpington Park & Ride, via the Railway Station and Biomedical Campus, start earlier in the morning (every day) and continue to early evening (Sun), operate to an increased frequency for much of the time, and provide additional evening services between Trumpington and St Ives (Mon-Sat). These services will be operated by single-decker vehicles.
Service C is a new service operating only during morning and afternoon peak times (Mon-Fri). All buses will operate between St Ives Park & Ride and Cambridge City Centre, with some journeys running to/from Cambridge Railway Station and a smaller number to/from Long Road Sixth Form College (via Hills Road, not the Busway) during college terms. This service will usually be operated by a double-decker vehicle.
We have received a query about stopping stopping points in Cambridge.
These have been promptly clarified for us by Stagecoach. (See the comments section, below.)
Secretary, Cambridge Area Bus Users
What this means in terms of overall frequency is that there is a bus between St Ives and Trumpington every 10 minutes, Monday to Saturday daytime, and every 15 minutes on Sundays. Peak hour Monday to Friday services are, of course, more frequent than this. Monday to Saturday evening services now run every 20 minutes between Trumpington and St Ives, and every half-hour in the other direction.
Changes to the feeder services include additional journeys on services 915, V1 and V3 and minor timetable changes on the V3 and V5.
It’s impossible to capture all of the changes in a brief blog post, so would-be passengers are encouraged to read the much longer explanation provided by Stagecoach and to consult the new timetables. The relevant links are provided at the top of this post.
Cambridge Area Bus Users 
We thank Amber, of Stagecoach East, for this prompt response:
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Thanks for raising this Lilian. We will query this with Stagecoach.
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Still a bit confused on the A route. There is a remark that the A will run Histon Road outbound but there are no indications that the A Bus will stop anywhere on Histon Road.
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