Route News 2024

Changes to bus services in and around Peterborough (latest items first). For older news see the Archive page.

For details of temporary route diversions and changes (due to roadworks, special events, weather etc) see the local Stagecoach page, Delaine's Twitter page, First's Current Issues page for Excel alterations, and Vectare's Twitter page.

Route 29 finishes on Easter Saturday, March 30th

bullet Route 29 from Serpentine Green Shopping Centre to City Hospital via Orton Waterville is being withdrawn, with its last day of operation being Easter Saturday, March 30th. Originally operated by Stagecoach, this 'orbital' service was introduced on March 1st 2021 as an initiative of the Combined Authority Mayor, but has been poorly advertised and poorly used. Operation transferred to Dews Coaches on October 31st 2022, but from the start has been subcontracted to Fowlers.

25/03/2024

Route 6 changes in Hampton from April 14th

bullet Route 6 was given extra running time from October 29th last year in order to serve Hampton Gardens, but apart from the first few days it did not prove possible to serve the main part of Hampton Gardens, and buses have been routed only via Hampton Avenue, London Road and Clayburn Road. From April 14th route 6 will revert to its old route, turning right from Silver Hill into Eagle Way. Departures from Queensgate bus station will not change, but timings from Hampton and Serpentine Green towards the city centre will now be 10 minutes earlier as a result.

bullet The new timetable is available on the Routes page, and there are revised Destination pages for Hampton and Serpentine Green.

25/03/2024

Easter Holiday Arrangements 2024

bullet Good Friday March 29th - Stagecoach East, Excel and Vectare are running a Sunday service; route X4 (operated by Stagecoach Midlands) runs to the Saturday timetable. Delaine 101 Bourne - Market Deeping - Peterborough runs from Bourne at 0730, 0900 then every 30 minutes until 1630; from Peterborough at 0900, 1000 then every 30 minutes until 1730 (no service on route 102). Delaine 201/2 Bourne - Stamford - Peterborough has a Saturday timetable but only runs between 0810 and 1545 from Bourne and between 1000 and 1715 from Peterborough.

bullet Easter Saturday March 30th - Normal Saturday services.

bullet Easter Sunday March 31st - Sunday service on Stagecoach, Excel and Vectare. No service on Delaine.

bullet Easter Monday April 1st - All operators are running Sunday timetables.

15/03/2024

Queensgate Bus Station

bullet From Monday March 4th until Saturday May 11th work will be underway at Queensgate Bus Station to improve the toilets and remove the former kiosk. The works necessitate the closure of Bay 15, so all Vectare services will be departing from Bay 18 instead of Bay 15 during this period.

29/02/2023

Flixbus and National Express

bullet A recent change to Flixbus service 002 through Peterborough (London to Bradford) is that it now only runs on four days per week, namely Friday to Monday. The timings are unchanged, and can be found on the Routes page.

bullet There are also a number of changes to the National Express timetable for route 788, Peterborough to Luton Airport and Heathrow Airport. There are still six daily journeys each way, and details can be found on the Routes page.

29/02/2023

Talk on Peterborough's Trams - March 7th

bullet Not exactly route news, but some of you might be interested in an illustrated talk on Peterborough's trams and tram routes which is happening on Thursday March 7th at 7pm, as part of the local Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) programme. Stagecoach in Peterborough has a direct line back to the Peterborough Electric Traction Company, and in fact the trams operated from what is now the Lincoln Road bus depot.

bullet As well as the trams and the people who ran them, the talk will explore the three tram routes with plenty of photos of Peterborough as it was over a hundred years ago. We will also look at the horse buses that preceded the trams, and the motor buses that replaced them. The venue is St Luke's Church on Mayors Walk, and you can find further details here.

19/02/2023

New Vectare route 25 from 2nd January (and R4 reissued)

bullet Vectare is to introduce a new route from January 2nd running between Queensgate and the Alwalton Hill Industrial Estate, which is situated south of the Orton South Interchange on Fletton Parkway. On some maps the area is also shown as Peterborough Gateway and is home to the likes of the LIDL Regional Distribution Centre, also Amazon's 'DPE2' delivery depot opened in 2021. Like Vectare's existing route 24, new route 25 will run along Oundle Road, and most journeys will also divert into Orton Waterville to serve Church Drive. The handful of journeys that omit Church Drive are numbered 25X, whilst there is also one shortworking to Church Drive numbered 25A.

bullet Remarkably the new service will run on seven days a week, with journeys starting as early as 0520 from Queensgate, even at weekends. There will also be late evening journeys - see the Routes page for the full timetable, also a map of the route.

bullet From the same date the R4 timetable is reissued and will no longer run between Christmas and New Year (including this Christmas) or during August due to low demand. Timings are unchanged as far as Peterborough is concerned, other than a two minute later arrival in Uppingham.

06/12/2023