Historical bus routes in Basingstoke

The town of Basingstoke in Hampshire, England, has a large bus network, providing the main public transport service there. Most services are currently run by Stagecoach in Hampshire. The network has a long history, and some routes are particularly long-standing.[1]

This is a list of some bus routes that have served Basingstoke in past years.

Contents

October 1973

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Hants & Dorset, a part of National Bus. The list is not strictly in numerical order, as (confusingly) the routes on many town services at the time were made up of two different numbers, depending on the direction of travel.

Basic daytime routes shown:

February 1979

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Hants & Dorset, a part of National Bus. The list is not strictly in numerical order, as (confusingly) the routes on many town services at the time were made up of two different numbers, depending on the direction of travel.

Basic daytime routes shown:

November 1983

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Hampshire Bus, a part of National Bus.

No further details on rural routes at this time are available at present.

June 1990

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Stagecoach Hampshire Bus. The network and the numbering scheme for the routes, similar to that listed for 1983 was recast with this timetable. This was the biggest change to the network until the 2000 changes. The 1990 change was bought in at the same time as the new one way system came into operation in the town centre.

Routes 41 and 42 combined to provide a 15 minute service between Basingstoke Bus Station and Lychpit during daytimes.

Journeys on routes 50 and 50 start/finish as route 56 via Buckskin at Kempshott Sainsburys.

September 1994

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Stagecoach Hampshire Bus.

No further details on rural routes at this time are available at present.

Evening and Sunday Running Sequence

This would have been used from the 1996 timetable, up to August 2000. After November 1998 service 50 journeys would have been referred to as service 41. After February 1999 evening journeys were on this route were renumbered 41A. It took six buses to run the evening service.

49B: --:05 Bus Station - West Ham Leisure Centre arr --:27

38A: --:27 West Ham Leisure Centre - Bus Station arr --:45

50: --:50 Bus Station - Kempshott arr --:18

56: --:22 Kempshott - Bus Station arr --:43

50A: --:45 Bus Station - Baughurst arr --:17

50A: --:18 Baughurst - Bus Station arr --:50

55C: --:55 Bus Station - East Oakley - Bus Station arr --:34

38A: --:35 Bus Station - West Ham Leisure Centre arr --:55

49B: --:55 West Ham Leisure Centre - Bus Station arr --:20

56: --:25 Bus Station - Kempshott arr --:45

50: --:45 Kempshott - Bus Station arr --:12

33: --:15 Bus Station - Chineham - Bus Station arr --:00

Cycle repeated, with ser 33 becoming --:05 49B

February 1999

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Stagecoach Hampshire Bus.

August 2000

Unless otherwise indicated, services are provided by Stagecoach Hampshire Bus.

This was the first version of the network Basingstoke sees today. The 1999 service was directly replaced by this one in August 2000. It took a very long time for Basingstoke's travellers to get used to the new network, it was vastly different from the previous one.

The following services did not serve the Bus Station, using the railway station instead: 1, 3, 6

Country routes were largely the same in 2000 to those in 1999. Here is a list of the Basingstoke local routes:

Changes in 2009

Changes from 9 September 2009

Changes from 4 January 2010

Changes from 10 January 2010

Changes from 27 March 2010

References

  1. ^ Robert Brown (4 April 2007). "Twenty_years_of_Stagecoach". Basingstoke Gazette. http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/memories/1307303. 
  2. ^ "Bus service axed as recession bites". Basingstoke Gazette. 6 September 2009. http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/4579149.Bus_service_axed_as_recession_bites/. Retrieved 7 November 2011. 
  3. ^ Lucie Richards (16 January 2010). "Warm welcome for the new village bus service". Basingstoke Gazette. http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/4851169.Warm_welcome_for_the_new_village_bus_service/. Retrieved 23 October 2010. 
  4. ^ a b c d e "Stagecoachbus.com Changes to buses in Basingstoke - Timetable changes". 10 January 2010. http://www.stagecoachbus.com/serviceupdatedetails.aspx?Id=228. Retrieved 12 February 2010. 
  5. ^ Emily Roberts (27 March 2010). "Bus service gets the axe due to lack of support". Basingstoke Gazette. http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/local/5198335.Bus_service_gets_the_axe_due_to_lack_of_support/. Retrieved 7 November 2010.