Newport (Isle of Wight) bus station

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Newport bus station, on the Isle of Wight is located adjacent to South Street in Newport town centre. Recent redevelopment has seen the old bus station, built in the 1960's pulled down, and the new one relocated just behind, with a new row of shops taking the place of the old site. Newport is used as the hub of Southern Vectis's network of bus routes, so the majority of routes use Newport bus station, currently 13 out of 18. Wightbus also operate a smaller number of services to the bus station. An on-site travel shop is run by Southern Vectis giving information to travellers. On 1 July 2007 the bus station became a no smoking area in its entirety.

Leading to the bus station, Newport town centre has it's own network of bus lanes, to speed up getting into the bus station. One on St James' Street and one on South Street. The temporary bus lane alongside Church Litten has now been resurfaced to allow regular traffic to use it.

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[edit] Redevelopment

Redevelopment started from the old bus station from summer 2005. During this time a temporary bus lane was set up alongside Church Litten with bus shelters erected in South Street Car Park. All buses stopped at either stands A,B or C, with the exception of route 1 which had its own bus lane in South Street due to its higher frequency (every 7-8 minutes at the time). It's redevelopment has been pictured.[1] The work was completed in July 2006, when the new bus station was opened.

[edit] Bus routes

The following buses run from Newport Bus Station. Services are run by Southern Vectis and Wightbus.

[edit] Southern Vectis routes

This is from the newest timetable revision of the 20 April 2008. [2]

Note: Colours represented appear on the Southern Vectis network map, but not the vehicles themselves.

Rt. No. Route Departure point Freq. (mins) Other notes
1 Newport – St. Mary's Hospital – Northwood – Roundhouse/Park and Ride – Cowes (link to Southampton via Red Funnel Red Jet and Uni-link City-link to Station for trains to London). Stand E 6 24-hour route (see below). Small buses (Mini Pointer Darts) are used on the route to make it possible to negotiate the Cowes terminus; Fountain Quay, the Red Jet Terminal.
2 Newport – Rookley – Godshill – Shanklin – Sandown – Ryde Stand A 30 Timetable links with route 3 between Shanklin and Ryde.
3 Newport – Merstone – Godshill – Wroxall – Ventnor – Shanklin – Sandown – Ryde Stand A 30 24-hour route (see below), but does not serve Merstone at night. Links with route 2 between Shanklin and Ryde.
5 Newport – Osborne – East Cowes Stand C 12 (30 Sundays) No longer serves Red Funnel Ferry terminal in East Cowes.
6 Newport – Blackgang Chine – Niton – Ventnor Stand A 60 No evening service.
7 Newport – Shalfleet,Cranmore,Bouldnor OR Apesdown,Calbourne,Newbridge,Wellow,Thorley – Yarmouth – Totland – Alum Bay – Totland – Freshwater – Brighstone – Newport Stand C 60 Circular service in both directions. Frequency can be seen as every 30 minutes at Newport and Totland, as the hourly services in each direction that goes either way around the route takes the same amount of time.
8 Newport – Robin Hill – Winford – Sandown Stand A 30 (60 Sundays) Upon arrival at Sandown, one of every two buses changes to a route 22 to serve Shaklin, with through fares available.
9 Newport – Fairlee/Staples – Wootton – Ryde Stand B 10 24-hour route (see below). Service run exclusively with new Mercedes Citaros.
10 Newport – Brading – St. Helens – Bembridge – Sandown Stand A 60 No evening service.
11 Newport – Calbourne – Freshwater – Totland. Stand C 60 Includes local service in Freshwater, upon arrival at Totland, the bus returns to Freshwater on a local service via the back roads. Once it returns to Totland, it continues to Newport. In Newport it takes on the route of the old route 37. No Sunday service.
28 Newport – Northwood – Gurnard – Cowes Stand F See → Limited service, four journeys from Cowes a day, three from Newport. Re-numbered from 30 to sit in timetable with other local Cowes route 27. Last journey towards Cowes extends to Porchfield and back to Newport
29 Newport – North Wootton – Havenstreet – Haylands – Ryde Stand F See → Buses run roughly hourly (with some gaps) through to Newport. There is a two-hourly Sunday service across the whole route.
38 Newport → Gunville → Carisbrooke → Newport Stand C 30 Circular service in direction shown.

The Medina Tour also serves Newport bus station twice during the summer, running hourly during the day.

[edit] Wightbus routes

All Wightbus routes operate from Stand F.

No. Origin Destination via Frequency (Mon-Sat daytime) Notes
23 Newport Shanklin Alverstone 60 Three journeys each day run to Newport.
30 Cowes Newport Gurnard 2 journeys per day (total) Extra journeys on Southern Vectis route 30, which is now their number 28, but Wightbus hasn't changed their number to reflect this.
33 Ryde Newport Havenstreet 7 journeys per day (total) Previously operated by Southern Vectis, but now just by Wightbus.
35 Newtown Newport Thorness Bay Holiday Centre 1 journey per day
36 Brighstone Newport Yafford & Chillerton Three journeys per week
39 Newport Bus Station Newport Town Circular Pan estate Every hour

[edit] References

  1. ^ Newport Bus Station redevelopment pictured on FlicrAccessed 8 June 2008
  2. ^ Southern Vectis - New bus timetables Accessed 23 March 2008
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