Changes to Wardle Transport services from 2 September 2012
Several local bus services in the Newcastle, Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Areas will be revised from Sunday 2 September 2012 following recent re-tendering of local bus services by the local authority.
Here are the changes to your local bus service:
Service X1: Stone – Sandon – Weston - Stafford
No change to route or timetable.
Service X50: Hanley – Uttoxeter – Derby
Revised route and timetable. Service diverted to serve Tean, Checkley, Fole and Beamhurst between Blythe Bridge and Uttoxeter along with Doveridge between Uttoxeter and Sudbury.
Service 1: Stone - Stonefield
No change to route or timetable.
Service 2: Stone – Aston Lodge
No change to route or timetable.
Service 3: Stone - Stonefield
No change to route or timetable.
Service 3A: Hanley – Milton – Baddeley Green Circular
No change to route or timetable.
Service 7: Longton – Blythe Bridge – Cheadle – Tean – Longton
No change to route or timetable.
Service 7A: Longton – Blythe Bridge – Tean - Cheadle – Longton
No change to route or timetable.
Service 16: Newcastle Hanley – Leek
No change to route or timetable.
Service 18: Hanley – Endon - Leek
No change to route or timetable.
Service 19: Hanley – Bradeley – Chell Heath – Wedgwood Farm
Service withdrawn
Service 20: Meir – Longton – Hanley – Tunstall – Kidsgrove
Service withdrawn.
Service 22: Hanley – Newcastle – Chesterton – Audley
No change to route or timetable.
Service 27: Longton – Westonfields – Coalville
No change to route. New additional afternoon journeys.
Service 28: Longton – Normacot – Meir – Brookwood Drive
Service withdrawn and replaced by service 51.
Services 33/33A: Newcastle – Westlands
No change to route or timetable
Service 34: Hanley – Newcastle - Audley
Service no longer operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 35: Newcastle – Chesterton
No change to route or timetable
Service 36: Union Street – Hanley – Reginald Mitchell Court
New service linking Union Street and Reginald Mitchell Court with Hanley.
Service 37: Hanley – Northwood – Reginald Mitchell Court – Hanley
Minor timetable change. Reginald Mitchell Court now served by new service 36.
Service 38: Hanley – Birches Head Circular
No change to route or timetable
Service 39: Hanley – Sneyd Green – Burslem – Middleport
Service withdrawn and replaced by service 69.
Service 41: Birches Head – Hanley – Stoke – University Hospital – Newcastle – Clayton
Additional journeys introduced between Birches Head and Hanley, improved frequency introduced throughout the day Monday to Saturday with buses running up to every 30 minutes. New Monday to Saturday evening service for hospital visiting.
Service 44: Hanley – Bagnall – Stanley
Revised timetable. Several departures at 50 minutes past each hour are withdrawn. Together services 44 and 45 provide a 30 minute frequency over common sections of route.
Service 45: Hanley – Abbey Hulton
New route and timetable. Service will run hourly Monday to Saturday. Together services 44 and 45 provide a 30 minute frequency over common sections of route.
Service 47: Longton – Dresden – Langland Drive
Revised route and timetable. New hourly frequency introduced daytime.
Service 48: Longton – Goms Mill
Service withdrawn.
Service 49: Longton – Normacot – Meir
Service withdrawn and replaced by service 51.
Service 50: Hanley – Pool Dole – Longton – Lightwood
Revised route and timetable.
Service 51: Longton – Normacot – Meir
New route and timetable. Service runs via Lightwood hourly daytime Monday to Saturday.
Service 58: Newcastle – University Hospital – Stoke – Etruria Locks – Hanley
No change to route or timetable
Service 58A: Clayton Village – Westbury Park – Stoke – Hanley
No change to route or timetable
Service 60: Hanley – Cobridge – Norton
New route and timetable. Service runs via Norton Chase hourly daytime Monday to Saturday.
Service 61: Hanley – Sneyd Green – Bradeley Village – Tunstall
Revised route and timetable. Service diverted to serve Mill Hill.
Service 62: Hanley – Milton – Norton – Tunstall
Revised route and timetable. All journeys to operate as service 62 running up to every 30 minutes daytime Monday to Saturday between Hanley and Tunstall, Asda calling at Milton, Norton Lane, Norton, Co-op, Ball Green, Norton, Pinfold Avenue, Haywood Hospital and Tunstall, High Street.
Service 64: Shrewsbury – Shawbury – Market Drayton
No change to route or timetable
Service 69: Hanley – Middleport – Tunstall
New route and timetable. Service runs hourly daytime Monday to Saturday.
Service 76: Tunstall – Mill Hill - Chell Heath
Service withdrawn. New service 88 runs between Tunstall and Mill Hill.
Service 80: Hanley – Bucknall – Eaton Park Circular
Revised route and timetable. Service introduces a more direct route to Hanley.
Service 81: Hanley – Abbey Hulton Circular
Service withdrawn and replaced by service 45
Service 82: Cheadle – Werrington – Bucknall – Hanley
No change to route or timetable.
Service 86: Tunstall – Packmoor – Biddulph
New route and timetable. Service runs hourly daytime Monday to Saturday via Brindley Ford. Now extended to serve Brown Lees Estate and Biddulph.
Service 88: Tunstall – Mill Hill
New route and timetable. Service runs hourly daytime Monday to Saturday
Service 89: Tunstall – Sunnyside Avenue
No change to route or timetable.
Service 94A: Newcastle – Park Site – Audley
Service no longer operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 96: Brindley Ford – Packmoor – Tunstall
Service withdrawn. See service 86 for replacement service.
Service 106: Longton – Werrington – Leek
No change to route or timetable.
Service 118: Hanley – Leek – Buxton‘The Buxton Flyer’
No change to route or timetable.
Service 164: Market Drayton – Newcastle – Hanley
Some early morning, late evening and Sunday buses will no longer be operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 249: Longton – Blythe Bridge - Stone
Service no longer operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 250: Longton – Stone – Walton – Little Stoke
Service no longer operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 350: Hanley – Eccleshall – Newport
New route and timetable. Service 350 is operated under contract to Staffordshire County Council
Service 429: Scot Hay – NCHS
No change to route or timetable
Service 430: Newcastle – NCHS
New route to additionally serve Cotswold Avenue Estate.
Services 434/435: Mile House – Sir Thomas Boughey School
No change to route or timetable
Service 490: Stone – Norton Bridge - Stafford
Service no longer operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 491: Slindon – Norton Bridge - Stafford
Service no longer operated by Wardle Transport following re-tendering by local authority.
Service 493: Leek – Brown Edge
No change to route or timetable
Service 500: Norton – Haywood Hospital – Hanley – Stoke – Blurton
No change to route or timetable
Plumline: Hanley – Stoke – Trentham Lakes – Blurton
No change to route or timetable
New timetable leaflets will also be available soon from local libraries, Tourist Information Centres along with the Travel Kiosk at Hanley Bus Station and the Travel Shop in Derby Bus Station. We will be pleased to send you a copy of our timetable leaflets – call us on 01782 827 282.
Keith Myatt communications manager of Wardle Transport said: “We have worked with the local authorities to provide the new network of local bus services – in particular the improvements to service 41 which provide an improved frequency daytime Monday to Saturday along with a new evening service – ideal for visiting friends and relations in hospital.
Our improved X50 service also meets requests from residents in Draycott, Tean, Checkley and Doveridge who need to travel to Derby, Derby Royal Hospital, Stoke for college, university and Hanley – this is a great to time to be moving up a gear so get on board.”