Go Cornwall Bus Network Update - September 2023

1 year ago Wed 26th Jul 2023

We are making changes to our Cornwall network from 3rd September 2023.

Key highlights include:

  • An update to Callywith College network
  • Service 72 will be re-numbered to 10
  • Service 11 is reduced to two hourly between Plymouth and Bodmin Parkway

There will also be a revised network of services around the Liskeard and Wadebridge area and the re-numbering of some sections of our current routes.

There will be changes to First Kernow and Stagecoach which will be available soon.

There are no changes to Travel Cornwall, OTS or Hopley's coaches.

Timetables will be available in due course so please keep an eye out on our socials.

 

List of changes:

Route

Change

Operated by

T1/T2 – The Tinner

Revised timetable will be introduced during the daytime Mondays to Saturdays.  Certain journeys will call at Hayle Community School

These changes affect First Kernow Services, Go Cornwall Bus operated journeys will remain unchanged

U1/U1A – Coast to Coast

The service will remain split at Truro until the 1st October due to the ongoing roadworks on the A30.  Also, from the 3rd September on schooldays the 0720 Falmouth to Newquay journey will be retimed to 0700 and operate via Richard Lander School.  The 1420 Newquay departure will depart at 1415 on schooldays and will also call into Richard Lander school on its way to Truro

First Kernow

U2 – Cornwall's Copper

The 0745 Falmouth to Cambourne journey will depart at 0730 on schooldays and run via Redruth School.  The 1455 Barncoose Hospital journey will additionally call at Redruth School on schooldays and operate 15 minutes later from Redruth to Falmouth.  The 1605 departure from Falmouth will depart at 1620 weekdays

First Kernow

U3

No planned changes

First Kernow

2/2A

TBC

Stagecoach SW

5/5A

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

6/6A

TBC

Stagecoach SW

8

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

 

9

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

 

10

Renumbering of service 72. Revised timetable to provide an hourly headway between Plymouth and Trerulefoot with service 11.

An hourly headway will operate between Widegates and Polperro with service 73

Go Cornwall Bus

 

11

A revised timetable will be introduced providing an hourly headway between Plymouth and Trerulefoot with service 10.  A reduced two hourly service will operate between Trerulefoot and Bodmin Parkway Station. An hourly headway will operate between Liskeard and Trago Mill with service 77. 

The 30-minute service is retained between Bodmin Parkway and Wadebridge with buses extended to Padstow hourly.  Times have been adjusted across the day to provide better connections with rail services at Bodmin Parkway

Go Cornwall Bus

 

12

Service retimed to provide 30-minute frequency between Plymouth and Saltash, (interwork with 10 & 11), the hourly service to Callington and 2 hourly to Bude will remain in place.

Most journeys to operate as 12, and St Dominic and Ashton are now served by 74

Go Cornwall Bus

 

12A

Limited to 4 journeys per day, providing connection to Schools and Colleges

Go Cornwall Bus

15

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

16/16A

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

17

From 1st October a revised timetable will be introduced on Mondays to Saturdays.  This service will now operate every 45 minutes between 0900 and 1500 Mondays to Fridays and daytime on Saturday, during the winter period

First Kernow

18 – Tin Coaster

No planned changes

First Kernow

 

19

No planned changes

First Kernow

 

21

Revised timetable and routing to enable service to connect with service 26 at St Austell and accommodate revised session times at Tretherras School. This will provide a cross St Austell service enabling improved access to local facilities. Whitemoor will no longer be served by ser 21 but will be linked to St Austell and Truro by service 22. Passengers wishing to travel between Whitmoor and Newquay will be able to change buses at St Dennis

Go Cornwall Bus

 

22

Revised timetable and route within St Austell to operate from Trinity Street to ASDA and into St Austell Bus Station via Alexandra Road providing a requested link from the Clays villages to Asda. Departure from St Austell and Truro are 5 minutes earlier

Go Cornwall Bus

 

23

No planned changes

Travel Cornwall

24

Evening journeys operated by Go Cornwall Bus will follow the same route as the daytime First Kernow operated journeys

First Kernow supported by Go Cornwall Bus

25

Some minor timetable changes to improve the route reliability, Level of service remains as now.  The Sunday service will be re-numbered 28 and be extended to the Eden Project

Go Cornwall Bus

 

26

Service retimed to work with service 21 on most journeys, providing cross St Austell links. Route remains unchanged

Go Cornwall Bus

 

27

First journey operated by Go Cornwall Bus from St Austell will start at St Austell Aldi and operate via Bethel Chapel, before St Austell Bus Station. The similar journey provided by First Kernow is withdrawn.  All other journeys operated by GCB remain unchanged.

 

The First Kernow Journey at 0719 (Schooldays) 0729 (School Holidays) St Austell Aldi – Truro will now commence from Trinity Street at 0706 (Schooldays), 0716 (School Holidays)

First Kernow supported by Go Cornwall Bus.

28

Introduction of Sunday service between St Austell and Eden Project

Travel Cornwall. Sundays operated by Go Cornwall Bus

30

No Planned Changes

Go Cornwall Bus

31

No Planned changes

Travel Cornwall

33

No Planned changes

 

OTS

34

Pm timetable amended at accommodate changes of school times at Mullion School therefore the current journey departing Helston at 1440 will terminate at Mullion School on Schooldays.

The service is rerouted within Redruth to serve Falmouth Rd, A393 and Westey Rd before Redruth Station. Journeys will depart Barncoose slightly earlier than the current timetable and follow the reverse of the above leaving Redruth

Go Cornwall Bus

 

35/A/63

No Planned changes

OTS

36/A

Revisions to school journeys AM and PM. The 36 journeys for Penair School will no longer divert via Devoran which will instead be served by service 36S

Go Cornwall Bus

 

36S

Journeys for Penair School will start/end at Gwennap Church instead of Redruth and now serve Devoran in place of the service 36.  Journeys for Redruth School are unchanged

Go Cornwall Bus

 

37

First journey to commence at Seven Stars instead of Tesco at 0845 to meet local requests

Go Cornwall Bus

38

The current journey from Porthleven to Helston meeting service 34 for Cornwall College is withdrawn with the link to Cornwall College instead provided by the service departing Helston at 0735 and running via Porthleven before Sithney.

Changes to the session times at Camborne S&I Academy result in the current 1455 journey from the school will depart at 1510 and terminate at Helston Seven Stars at 1544

Go Cornwall Bus

 

39/A

Changes to the session times at Camborne S&I Academy result in the current 1435 39A from Camborne running 15 minutes later throughout

Go Cornwall Bus

 

40

No significant change to timetable other than the 1750 from Redruth will terminate at Treliske Hospital

Go Cornwall Bus

 

42

No planned changes

OTS

46

No planned changes

 

Go Cornwall Bus

48/49

No planned changes to service 48

Service 49 will no longer operate services to/from Camborne S&I Academy from Black Rock. These journeys will now operate as 49S. This will provide additional capacity at school times and standardise the timetable for most journeys throughout the day

Go Cornwall Bus

 

50/51

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

 

56

No significant changes to Monday to Friday other than to accommodate revised session times at Tretherras. School, but Saturdays will revert to off peak summer timetable with journeys running through to/from Padstow every 2 hours with links to Newquay Airport retained hourly

Go Cornwall Bus

 

58

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

59/A

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

60

No planned changes

OTS

63/64/65

No planned changes

OTS

66/466

No planned changes

OTS

67

No planned changes

OTS

69/A

No planned changes

OTS

70/A/B

Service renumbered so main service is 70

Additional PM journey added from Torpoint CC to Millbrook.

Revised departure times from Plymouth between 1600 and 1825 to reduce the 1h 25 minute gap in timetable.

Sunday service reduced to 2 hourly for winter period with the withdrawal of short journeys between HMS Raleigh and Plymouth

Go Cornwall Bus

 

71

Timetable adjusted during peak periods to improve reliability, with significant running time added

Go Cornwall Bus

 

72

Service renumbered 10 and timetable adjusted to provide 30 minute headway between Plymouth and Saltash with services 11 and 12 and hourly to Trerulefoot with service 11

Go Cornwall Bus

 

72A

This service between Plymouth & Saltash will be withdrawn.

Go Cornwall Bus

73/A

A completely revised timetable to provide improved links across Liskeard will be introduced. 

Service will operate 2 hourly on the 73 and 2 hourly on the 73A. This will maintain an hourly service between Duloe, Sandplace and Liskeard, via the Railway Station and the 73 will provide an hourly service between Looe and Polperro when combined with the 2 hourly service 10.

73A will continue to operate through to Polperro but will not serve Widegates running direct between Sandplace and Looe

Go Cornwall Bus

74

Core 2 hourly service between Liskeard and Callington retained but retimed to connect with service 73 in Liskeard. This will provide a link from the Railway Station to places beyond Liskeard.

Current journey which terminates at St Cleer have been extended to Pensilva, providing an hourly service between Liskeard, St Cleer and Pensilva.

In Callington the service will continue to Tesco, St Dominick and Ashton. This enables most journeys on service 12 to now operate a more direct route.

Additional journeys have been added later into the evening

Go Cornwall Bus

 

75

Minor timetable change – the 1745 from Torpoint will terminate at Widegates at 1835

Go Cornwall Bus

75A

These two school journeys are now part of service 11 timetable

Go Cornwall Bus

77

Timetable revised to provide an hourly headway between Liskeard to Trago Mills when combined with service 11

Go Cornwall Bus

78/A

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

79/A

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

84

No Planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

85

No significant changes other than providing additional journeys to serve Richard Lander School and retiming the 0700 from Truro accommodate session time changes at Tretherras School.

Sunday service to continue as current timetable

Go Cornwall Bus

 

85

No planned changes

Stagecoach SW

88

No planned changes

Go Cornwall Bus

89

Section of route between Bodmin and St Columb Major removed due to very low use. New service 90 to operate two hourly from Wadebridge to Truro via St Columb Major improving connectivity from North Cornwall to Truro from services 11, 95 and 96

Go Cornwall Bus

 

90

New service 90 to operate two hourly between Wadebridge and Truro

Go Cornwall Bus

91

No planned changes

First Kernow on Monday to Saturday and Go Cornwall Bus on Sundays

92

Service replaces the section of route between Wadebridge and Newquay currently on service 95. The service operates 2 hourly to provide an hourly headway between Wadebridge and St Columb Major with service 90. An hourly service us maintained between Newquay and St Columb Major and when combined with services 21 and 91, 3 buses per hour between St Columb Minor and Newquay

Go Cornwall Bus

 

93/94

No significant changes to these services

Go Cornwall Bus

95

Revised timetable to provide better connections in Wadebridge to service to Truro and Newquay

Winter timetable to be introduced from late October.

Go Cornwall Bus

 

96

The 06.50 from Bodmin to Camelford is withdrawn and from Camelford to Wadebridge is retimed. The 09.15 from Wadebridge is retimed 20 minutes later at 09.35

Go Cornwall Bus

 

96A/B/S

No planed changes

Go Cornwall Bus

97/S

Revised timetable between school times to reduce number of journeys currently offered in line with passenger demand.

 

 

 

Go Cornwall Bus

128/129/218/ 219

Journeys on 129 which continue to Stratton Hospital and Kilkhampton will be renumbered 219 throughout to prevent customer confusion.

Timetable to show 219 operating via Valley Road. The first journey from Poughill to Hartland will operate 5 minutes earlier to improve connections at Hartland with services to Bideford.

Go Cornwall Bus

 

220

No Planned Changes

Go Cornwall Bus

223

No Planned Changes

Go Cornwall Bus

304

No Planned Changes

Hopley’s coaches

306

Removal of journey at 1530 between Launceston and Callywith (operates as 176)

Go Cornwall Bus

315

No planned changes

Hopley’s coaches

319

Amendments to improve reliability, additional journeys will also be added and an improved connection on the last journey with the 219 at Hartland.

Stagecoach SW

371

No planned changes

 

Go Cornwall Bus

372

No planned changes

 

Go Cornwall Bus 

373

No planned changes

 

Go Cornwall Bus

405

No planned changes

 

Travel Cornwall

423

No planned changes

 

Travel Cornwall

425

No planned changes

 

Travel Cornwall

426

Retime 15.25 from Launceston College between Menheniot Crescent and Langdon Cross to prevent bus waiting time. No other changes

Go Cornwall Bus

 

450-455

Following customer feedback some services will be revised including provision of journeys from Menheniot to Liskeard on a second day of the week and revision of the current Quethiock journeys to serve Liskeard instead of Saltash.

 

Saltash Red Bus

481/482

No planned changes

 

Travel Cornwall

484/485/493/494/495/496

Truro City Services

No planned changes

 

Travel Cornwall

Lands' End Coaster

From 1st Oct this service will only operate between Penzance and Lands End for the Winter Period.

First Kernow

 

Sunseeker, Atlantic Coaster and Falmouth Coaster

From the 1st October these services will not operate for the winter period

First Kernow

 

G1/2/3

No planned changes

 

Gorran Bus