Stagecoach are rerouting service 905 within Cambridge from 18th February. This will mean a change to the stopping arrangements in both directions.
The 905 will no longer serve stops in Victoria Avenue and Maid’s Causeway. Instead it will head into the city centre down Bridge Streeet and Jesus Lane (calling at both stops along this route) before terminating at Drummer Street Bus Station (Bay 7). The same route is followed by trips towards St Neots and Bedford. Passengers for the Grafton Centre, therefore, will need to use the Jesus Lane stops. And the service will no longer be exiled to the Parkside terminus.
The new timetable is available from the Stagecoach website.
Cambridge Area Bus Users (CABU) have been asking for this service to return to Drummer Street for a while (the layout was unsuitable for the coaches that previously used to operate the service). Since the former X5 was split into two portions and double deckers introduced on the 905 there seemed to be no good reason for the service not to return to the Bus Station. The issue appears to have been the allocation of Drummer Street bays on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms. The resolution of this issue to the benefit of service 905 passengers is welcomed by CABU.
[The digital timetable data currently loaded into journey planners and the like shows inbound services continuing to call at the Northampton Street stop, whereas there’s no corresponding stopping point shown on outbound trips. This seems illogical, but attempts to determine what’s actually going to happen on February 18th have so far failed to elicit a clear response. Sorry!]
Subsequent correspondence with Stagecoach East and with transport officers at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority have confirmed that both stops on Northampton Street will be served.
- Castle Street, inbound (NaPTAN 0500CCITY261)
- Castle Street, outbound (NaPTAN 0500CCITY275)
Cambridge Area Bus Users 