Stephensons are making some changes to Cambridge/Newmarket services 11 and 12 from 4th September.

There are route revisions within Newmarket to service 11 with minor changes to the timetable to accommodate the new route.

Service 12 has been amended to help with early morning and evening running times and connections at Newmarket with service 112 (Newmarket/Ely).

Revised timetables are available to download from the Stephensons website.

(Thanks to Suffolk County Council for this information.)

Stagecoach are making another round of changes to services in the Cambridge area, taking effect from Sunday 3rd September. As usual, they have posted a summary of the changes, but that summary doesn’t cover everything.

Citi 2. There are minor timetable changes, but the most significant difference is that services are again able to stop outside Cambridge North station, rather than being exiled to “Bay 3”.

Citi 5. Certain journeys on this service are being extended to/from St Ives, utilising the Busway between Longstanton and St Ives. There will be morning peak-hour departures from St Ives, and both morning and evening departures from Cambridge. These departures operate Monday-Saturday. On Sundays there are six departures in each direction that serve St Ives. Note, though, that services will begin or end at St Ives Park & Ride, and will not be serving the Bus Station. There are changes to the timetable throughout the day, not solely limited to the introduction of through services to/from St Ives.

8A (apparently not branded as a “Citi” service). In addition to timetable changes, this is being extended to/from Buchan Street. The implication of this extension is that outbound journeys will call on the opposite side of the roads through Orchard Park from the current route. Until more detailed timetable information is available, this is uncertain.

25. There are minor timetable changes.

Busway A. Short trips between Trumpington and the Biomedical Campus will operate without a break until 4.00 Monday to Friday. All but one of the Histon Road stops that were added to the timetable in recent years are being withdrawn – in future, the only stops served by service A will be at Akeman Street. (The other Histon Road stops will be served only by the Citi 8 and 8A.) And in St Ives, another reversion to previous practice – services will no longer serve Morrisons but operate to/from Marley Road.

F. Two early evening services are being added from St Ives Bus Station to Fenstanton, operating Monday to Saturday and departing St Ives at 6.25 and 6.40.

Links to the revised timetables are available from the Stagecoach website.

Myall’s, the current operator on service 8 (Cambridge-Coton-Madingley-Dry Drayton-Bar Hill and villages to Papworth) are giving up the route at the end of this week. The good news is that there is already a new operator in place and ready to take over – that’s A2B, who run a number of other (mostly rural) services. They will be starting on Monday 26th June and will operate to the existing timetable. But passengers need to be aware that different buses will on the route. And a different team of drivers, of course.

For those who don’t already know, the Anglia & Thames Valley Bus Forum has been, and continues to be, a useful source of information about changes to bus services, praise and (more often) complaints about services, new vehicles coming to the area, and more.

Members of the Forum range through enthusiasts, drivers, ex-drivers and other bus staff, through to senior bus professionals (some members in more than one category).

Until now the running costs of the site (and parallel sites in other areas of the UK) have been met by one founder member of the Forum, Suzy Scott. This is, however, no longer sustainable. If you are in a position to help, please consider donating through her Ko-fi funding link.

Stagecoach are making changes to the majority of its Cambridge area services with effect from next Sunday, 4th June. Most of these changes are designed to address punctuality issues arising from congestion around the city, resulting in longer journey times.

A summary of changes for each affected route is available from the Stagecoach website. And all of the revised timetables are available here.

Citi 1: Peak hour frequency is reduced to 5 services per hour. This means that Fulbourn departures will operate every 24 minutes – more buses than at present, but perhaps less easy to remember their departure times.

Citi 2: In addition to punctuality changes there are a few additional trips between Milton Tesco and Cambridge North operating every evening.

Citi 3: In addition to punctuality changes the Sunday evening journeys to Waterbeach are being withdrawn. (You’d be forgiven for not knowing there were any late-evening Sunday services to Fen Ditton, Horningsea and Waterbeach as they didn’t feature in the October 2022 published timetable.)

Citi 4: One additional Monday-Friday service has been added to the timetable, operating between Cambourne and CRC, via the northern bypass, then onwards to Drummer Street. It will carry the service number 4A.

Citi 6: All Monday-Saturday services will operate 5 minutes later than at present. Sunday services remain unchanged.

Citi 8: In addition to punctuality changes, Rampton will be served by one bus per day Monday-Friday (going into Cambridge in the morning, and home again in the late afternoon).

13: The route around Haverhill will be changing and The Fox no longer served.

X13: An additional Monday-Friday service will operate on this route from Addenbrooke’s at 06.15.

16A: The afternoon departure will leave from Emmanuel Street rather than Drummer Street, and on weekdays will operate 2 minutes later throughout.

131: The route around Haverhill will be changing and The Fox no longer served.

905: In addition to punctuality changes, Saturday morning services will operate only hourly from Cambridge until 11.15 (until 10.05 from St Neots into Cambridge).

PR2 (Newmarket Road Park & Ride): One additional departure from the city centre will operate at 18.00, Monday-Saturday.

PR3 (Trumpington Park & Ride): Changes to address punctuality and congestion issues (omitted from the Stagecoach summary).

PR4 (Babraham Road Park & Ride): Changes to address punctuality and congestion issues.

And three new services are being introduced:

Citi 8A: This new Monday-Saturday service follows the route of the 8 from Drummer Street to the Kings Hedges Road junction, and then continues into Orchard Park. It will operate half-hourly until early evening. There have been reports of a number of Busway A services in the area showing “Bus Full”, and this new service will provide additional capacity.

F: This is a new early-morning service operating a handful of trips from Fenstanton to St Ives (and only in that direction), Monday-Saturday.

X9: Two Monday-Saturday trips are offered in each direction between Cambridge North and Littleport, but bypassing Ely. Northbound it operates early morning, southbound mid-evening. (Do NOT confuse this with an earlier version of the X9 that Stagecoach used to operate, and which did serve Ely!)

A2B are now providing a Saturday service on the St Ives/Bar Hill route, the first time such a service has operated for many years. (The same operator already runs the weekday equivalent.) There are six trips in each direction running to an hourly frequency (with a break for the driver’s lunch).

Unlike the weekday service on this route this one operates as V4 (A2B were already operating the Saturday V4 from St Ives to Fenstanton).

The timetable is available here.

The new service commenced on May 6th – apologies for the lateness of this post.

Stagecoach have announced changes to a number of services, taking effect from Sunday 16th April. They have published a summary of these changes, but this omits what could be important information, depending on your use of these services.

Citi 5. The timetable amendments are more significant than Stagecoach’s announcement might suggest. From 17th April Monday-Saturday services will commence earlier than at present – from Longstanton they will start up at 0510, and from Cambridge at 0615. Saturday evening services, which were withdrawn last October, have been reinstated. The last bus to Longstanton, Monday-Saturday, will leave at 2250, which is a significant improvement on the current time of 2210, although from Longstanton the last bus, excluding Sundays, will be at 2155, slightly earlier than at present. Times have changed throughout the day, Monday to Saturday. Unfortunately, the new daytime departure times from Cambridge – at 20 and 50 mins past the hour – means the Citi 5 mostly duplicates the Citi 6 between Emmanuel St and Girton Corner, as the latter already leaves at XX20 and (peak hours only) XX50. Sunday services are unchanged. The revised timetable mostly offers poor connectivity with the Citi 5 at Longstanton Park & Ride.

Citi 7, 9, 13 and 904: Minor timetable changes are being made (resulting, in most cases, in extended journey times overall). The additional 1815 departure on service 13 to Haverhill and Little Wratting referred to in the Stagecoach announcement operates only Monday-Friday. All departures from Peterborough on service 904 will operate 5 minutes later than at present.

Busway A: There are a number of potentially significant changes in addition to those outlined by Stagecoach. Overall journey times from St Ives are generally extended by 13 minutes (but there’s no change to journeys from Trumpington). Services from St Ives will now start at 0441 (Monday-Saturday). However, evening services will be operating to a revised pattern, one consequence of which is that the last bus to St Ives will be at 2300 (2200 Sundays), some 25 minutes earlier than at present. The last bus into Cambridge will leave St Ives at 2101 (2001 Sundays), which is a full 49 minutes earlier than on the current timetable. The afternoon Trumpington-Biomedical Campus peak-hour “shuttle” has been withdrawn, presumably to allow the operation of the increased frequency along the whole route that Stagecoach mention in their announcement.

Busway B: Overall journey times are generally extended by 12 or 13 minutes in both directions. As with service A, last buses will be departing earlier. On southbound journeys the last bus departs almost an hour earlier than at present, leaving Hinchingbrooke at 2055 (1955 on Sundays) rather than at 2151 (2051 on Sundays). The last bus from Cambridge will be 20 minutes earlier than is currently the case – at 2305 (2205 on Sundays). As the Stagecoach announcement makes clear, there are additional daytime services on Sundays between St Ives Bus Station and Drummer St.

Busway C: This is reduced from 4 services a day (Monday-Friday) to the 2 mentioned by Stagecoach. And no longer serves the Railway Station.

New timetables are available from the Stagecoach website. (except for the Busway, for which a revised version is expected after Easter).