• Effective
    06/04/2025 - 30/08/2025

The below changes, which will see improvements to the overall bus network in the West of England, are part of a bi-annual review of routes, and will come into effect from Sunday 6 April

For a number of services, the timetable & route will not change - please refer to the unaffected routes drop-down list in each area for these services.

New print at home route maps & timetables will be added under each service over the coming weeks. 


Bristol

The below services have not changed route or timetable, so please refer to the current timetable & route map:

  • 6 Kingswood – Bristol City Centre
  • 7 Staple Hill – Bristol City Centre
  • 19 Bristol Parkway Station - Bath City Centre
  • 72 Bristol Temple Meads – Bristol City Centre – UWE Frenchay
  • 374 (Bristol – Wells / Wells – Taunton)
  • 376 (Bristol – Wells / Wells – Yeovil)
  • 376a (Bristol – Wells)
  • m3 & m3x metrobus Emersons Green – Bristol City Centre
  • m4 metrobus Cribbs Causeway – Bristol City Centre
  • U1 Stoke Bishop – University of Bristol – Bristol City Centre
  • U2 Bristol City Centre – University of Bristol – Langford Veterinary School
  • U3 Bristol City Centre – UWE Frenchay

  • Following the success of our Summer Holiday timetable from last year, which significantly sped up customer journeys on the m1, we are planning to run the same timetable again this summer. Summer timetables will commence from 21st July 2025 and will run until 29th August 2025. Saturday and Sunday timetables will remain unchanged throughout this period. 
  • There will be a very minor peak time timetable change to one journey from 6th April.

CLICK HERE for new timetable.

  • We are excited to be extending the hours of operation on the m2 service. The last bus on Monday to Saturday evenings will leave Bristol City Centre (Cabot Circus stop) at 23.00, and pass through The Centre shortly afterwards. A Sunday and Public Holiday service will be added, too, every half an hour between 8am and 6.30pm. 

CLICK HERE for new timetable.

  • Timetable revised on weekdays and Saturdays to improve punctuality and reliability.
  • Extra evening services will be added on weekdays and Saturdays between Temple Meads Station and Henbury, Crow Lane. There will be a service every 20 minutes from Temple Meads to Westbury and Henbury until around midnight on these days. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Weekday and Saturday timetables have been revised to improve punctuality and reliability.
  • To speed up journeys and avoid buses running along the same routes together, the 2 will be rerouted away from Henbury and instead take the quicker route to Cribbs Causeway from Brentry Roundabout via Wyck Beck Road and Passage Road. This follows an improvement in traffic conditions in this area compared to before the Covid pandemic.  

New timetable and route map coming soon.

  • These services will have their weekday and Saturday timetables revised to improve punctuality and reliability. An extra bus will be used in the afternoon peak to help keep the service on time. An extra short journey will run from St Bede’s Catholic College towards Henbury on service 3 at school finishing time to assist with high customer loadings at this time. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Service 5 will have changes to the timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • Towards Clifton, there will be a change to the stopping arrangement in the City Centre, with buses now stopping at The Haymarket (stop B8) just after the Bear Pit instead of Bond Street (stop S8) before the Bear Pit. This change will also apply to service 8, and will give a common stop for all Clifton-bound services alongside the changes to service 77.
  • Customers travelling between Barton Hill and the City Centre should check details of new service 16, which will provide more buses between these areas. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.
  • There will be a small frequency improvement in the early AM Peak and early evening. There will also be a major stop change in the City Centre, with Clifton-bound services moving around the corner from Bond Street (stop S8) to The Haymarket (B8). This is to provide a common stop between Broadmead and Clifton alongside service 5 and 77, with 9 buses per hour serving Clifton at peak times, or a bus roughly every 6/7 minutes.  

New timetable coming soon.

  • We are excited to be launching new service 16 providing a number of new links in East Bristol, including between Kingswood and Temple Meads.
  • Buses will run from Rupert Street in the City Centre and serve Broadmead, and then Avon Street for access to Temple Meads Station. They will then serve the Feeder Road and Marsh Lane before running through Barton Hill, doubling the number of buses in this area (alongside service 5). Buses will operate between Barton Hill and Kingswood via Church Road, Summerhill Road, Nags Head Hill, Kingsway and Two Mile Hill Road.  
  • The 16 will continue from Kingswood to Fishponds and Oldbury Court via Cossham Hospital, Lodge Causeway and Channons Hill. This will double the number of buses between Kingswood and Fishponds alongside service 17 and provide new links from the Lodge Causeway area to Fishponds. Buses will operate an anti-clockwise loop of Oldbury Court via Downend Road, Shepherd Road, Gill Avenue and Vassall Road to Fishponds Straits Parade. 
  • Buses will operate half hourly for most of the day between 6am and 7pm on weekdays, and run half hourly on Saturdays and Sundays and Public Holidays too, with a slightly later start. This service is funded by Bristol City Council through income raised by Clean Air Zone charges. 

CLICK HERE for new route map & timetable.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. For customers who travel between Kingswood and Fishponds, please see information on new route 16 which will provide an additional link between these areas, via Cossham Hospital and Lodge Causeway. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable to reflect the latest traffic conditions to improve punctuality and reliability. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • New service 36 will link Highridge (top of Kings Head Lane) and St Anne’s via Withywood, Hartcliffe, Hengrove Park, Imperial Park, Melvin Square, Broad Walk Shops, West Town Lane, Hungerford Road and Brislington.
  • Buses will operate every 35 minutes for most of the day between 6am and 7pm on weekdays, and run every 35 minutes on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays too, with a slightly later start.
  • This service is funded by Bristol City Council through income raised by Clean Air Zone charges.
  • For the avoidance of doubt, the service between St Anne’s and the City Centre via Barton Hill will remain as separate service 5 due to traffic congestion.   

CLICK HERE for route map & timetable.

This is a new service, funded by Bristol City Council through income raised by Clean Air Zone charges. It will link Knowle West and Avonmouth Trading Estate and Severn Beach Industrial area three times a day, every day of the week, at key shift change times. Buses will run via Inns Court, Bamfield, Hengrove Park, Hartcliffe, Bishopsworth, Ashton Gate and the Portway to and from Avonmouth. 

CLICK HERE for route map & timetable.

  • Services 39 and X39 will see their timetables changed to reflect changes to traffic patterns along the A4 corridor. In addition, some X39s in the early evening will become 39s and operate via Keynsham between Bristol and Bath. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • Additional late-night journey on weekdays and Saturdays from Kingswood and the City Centre to Avonmouth, running through the City Centre to Avonmouth at around 11pm.
  • Customers travelling between Kingswood, Church Road and the City Centre should check details of new route 16 which will additionally link these places, via Temple Meads.

New timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • In addition, there will be a minor route change at Cadbury Heath, with buses operating from Wraxall Road via Parkwall Road, Newton Road, Park Road and Tower Road South to Mill Lane, instead of via Cadbury Heath Road. 
  • Customers travelling between Kingswood, Church Road and the City Centre should check details of new route 16 which will additionally link these places, via Temple Meads.

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • We are pleased to be extending the catchment of the 43 further into South Bristol this April, with our cross-city journeys extending beyond the current Bishopsworth, Vicarage Road terminus to Imperial Park, a major retail and employment hub in South Bristol. Buses will operate via Whitchurch Lane and Hengrove Way, and at Imperial Park, buses will drop off and pick up customers at the bus stop on the Burger King side of the road. 
  • In addition, service 43’s running times will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • Customers travelling between Kingswood, Church Road and the City Centre should check details of new route 16 which will additionally link these places, via Temple Meads.

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • In response to increased demand through St George, we are pleased to be adding more peak journeys on the 44 and 45. In addition, service 44’s timetable will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • Customers travelling between Nags Head Hill Road, Summerhill Road, Church Road and the City Centre should check details of new route 16, which will additionally link these places, via Temple Meads.

New timetable coming soon.

  • In response to increased demand through St George, we are pleased to be adding more peak journeys on the 44 and 45. In addition, service 45’s timetable will be revised on all days to improve punctuality. 
  • Customers travelling between Nags Head Hill Road, Summerhill Road, Church Road and the City Centre should check details of new route 16, which will additionally link these places, via Temple Meads.

New timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.
  • The weekday frequency will reduce from every 20 minutes to every 30 minutes, the usual change at this time of year as demand to and from UWE reduces. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Service 47/47x’s timetable will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • Due to low customer demand the weekdays off-peak and Saturday frequency will be reduced from every 30 minutes to every 60 minutes, however, new service 16 will link parts of Oldbury Court with Fishponds and Kingswood up to every 30 minutes on all days of the week.  

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Both timetables will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.
  • All journeys to and from Emersons Green will now run as the 48x at all times of the day/week. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Both timetables will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.
  • All journeys to and from Lyde Green will now run as the 49x at all times of the day/week. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • The frequency will be reduced from every 30 minutes to every 60 minutes to better suit the demand for this service since it started last September.
  • The last bus from the City Centre will now operate one hour later, at 19.20 on weekdays (19.13 Saturday), rather than 18.10 (18.25 Saturdays).
  • To better serve Eastgate Retail Park, buses will now run between Eastville Park and Bell Hill via Muller Road and Glenfrome Road, instead of Stapleton Road (under the M32 flyover). 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.

New timetable coming soon.

  • Timetable will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • This service’s route will change so that it serves Bowsland Way and Woodlands Way in both directions, instead of operating a loop around Bradley Stoke North. This change will improve overall journey times and simplify the route.
  • The timetable is revised on all days to improve punctuality.
  • The diversion at Hengrove with northbound buses operating via Airport Road, due to the closure of the left turn from Hengrove Way into Creswicke Road, will remain in place until further notice.

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Timetable will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • The majority of Monday to Friday AM and PM peak journeys will terminate at Hengrove Park instead of Hengrove Depot.

New timetable coming soon.

  • Timetable will be revised on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 
  • Most Monday to Friday AM and PM peak journeys will terminate at Hengrove Park instead of Hengrove Depot.
  • Customers travelling between the Whitchurch Lane area and the City Centre should check details of service 43, which will be extended to Imperial Park and also now serve this area.

New timetable coming soon.

  • Instead of serving Henleaze, service 77 will now connect Gloucester Road directly to Clifton with a comprehensive half-hourly timetable. In addition, the service will create a local link between Clifton, Pembroke Road and Clifton Down Station and Shopping Centre.  
  • The service will operate an anti-clockwise loop from Clifton Village via Pembroke Road, Alma Road, Whiteladies Road, Upper Belgrave Road and Pembroke Road back to Clifton Village. 
  • There will also be a stop change in the City Centre, with Clifton-bound services additionally stopping at The Haymarket (B8), alongside services 5 and 8 moving to this stop. This is to provide a common service between Broadmead and Clifton for all Clifton-bound services, with 9 buses per hour serving Clifton at peak times, or a bus roughly every 6/7 minutes.  
  • At Park Street Top, buses will use stop U6 rather than U1 to match other Clifton-bound services. 

  • The 172 has had its route diverted slightly in Midsomer Norton to serve the new The Hollies bus stop (this change started as a diversion in late-February).
  • Some minor changes to running times between Midsomer Norton and Bath will be made to provide even spacing of services. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.

New timetable coming soon.

  • This service will no longer call at Catcott St Peter’s Church due to frequent issues with bad parking and buses getting stuck. It is planned for new bus stops to be created on the main road instead. There will otherwise be no change to the timetable.

New timetable coming soon.

  • TBC

Service SB1 Soundwell – St. Brendan’s College 

  • New timetable to improve punctuality and reliability. 

Service SB2 Downend – St. Brendan’s College 

  • New timetable to improve punctuality and reliability. 

Service SB3 Stockwood – St. Brendan’s College  

  • Service SB3 will be withdrawn, as new service 36 will provide a more frequent service throughout the day to and from the Stockwood Road stops across from the College from most of the SB3 route. 

Service SB4 Yate – St. Brendan’s College 

  • This route will be curtailed to Westerleigh and no longer run to and from Yate, with that section now covered by route SB6 – please see below. Additionally, the SB4 will be re-routed between New Cheltenham (Anchor Road) and the College via Kingswood, Kingsway and Hanham, to provide additional capacity to support the SB2 and SB5 over this busy section of route. There will be changes to the timetable to improve punctuality and reliability.  

Service SB5 Coalpit Heath – St. Brendan’s College 

  • New timetable to improve punctuality and reliability. 

Service SB6 Yate – St. Brendan’s College 

  • This route will extend in Yate to cover areas currently served by the SB4, which will be curtailed in Westerleigh. There will be changes to the timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability. 

Service SB7 Bishopsworth – St. Brendan’s College 

  • New timetable to improve punctuality and reliability. 

  • The X1 will have a new timetable including extra evening journeys on Monday to Saturday and a new night service will operate on Friday and Saturday nights. This will run as new route X14 (see below) and will connect Bristol and Weston via the Portway, Portishead and Clevedon. 
  • Two X1 journeys a day will run as an X1s via Long Ashton to provide extra capacity for students attending Backwell School. One journey in the morning will run from Bristol to Weston via Long Ashton, arriving at Backwell Crossroads in time for school opening. In the afternoon, one journey will run from Weston to Bristol via Long Ashton, around school finishing time. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • The X4 will have a new timetable, including extra evening journeys on Monday to Saturday and a new night bus will operate on Friday and Saturday nights. This will run as new route X14 (see below) and will connect Bristol and Portishead via the Portway, and then continue to Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • Service X6 will see significant improvements following increased usage of this service, being enhanced to a frequency of every 30 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes and therefore doubling the number of fast, direct buses between Clevedon and Bristol. The last bus from Bristol will operate later than at present, and in addition, the X6 will be introduced on Sundays and Public Holidays at an hourly frequency, offering an extra, fast bus per hour between Clevedon and Bristol on this day.  
  • At Clevedon, service X6 will no longer serve the Walton Park/Dial Hill area, with all journeys terminating instead at Six Ways. Services X7 and X7a will serve this area instead. 
  • A new night bus will operate on Friday and Saturday nights from Bristol via the Portway to Portishead, Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. This will run as new service X14 - please see below for details.

New timetable & route map coming soon.

  • Service X7 will undergo significant changes to provide better connections between the towns and villages of North Somerset, offering a greater possibility for direct journeys between large parts of Clevedon, Tickenham, Nailsea and Nailsea and Backwell Station. At Clevedon, journeys will serve the Walton Park/Dial Hill area during Monday – Saturday daytimes, replacing the X6 there. 
  • Between Nailsea and Bristol, the service will operate via Backwell instead of Wraxall, and use the Long Ashton by-pass (instead of running via the village), as per the current X8 route, which it will replace. The service will run hourly initially, and on Sundays and evenings will operate as a modified version of the route, X7a, that will serve Long Ashton rather than use the Long Ashton by-pass. Existing customers of the X7 for Long Ashton and Wraxall during the daytime on Monday – Saturdays should use the X9 which will remain on its current route. 
  • A new night bus will operate on Friday and Saturday nights from Bristol via the Portway to Portishead, Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. This will run as new service X14 - please see below for details.

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Service withdrawn and substantively replaced by the X7/X7a, please see above.

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.

New timetable coming soon.

  • We are pleased to be announcing a new night service that will connect to major towns in North Somerset on Friday and Saturday nights, with departures at 01:15 and 02:15 from Bristol Bus Station.
  • The service will pick up at stops on The Centre, Anchor Road, Hotwell Road and then run via the Portway to Portishead before continuing to Clevedon, Worle and Weston-super-Mare. When leaving Bristol, we’ll stop at Shirehampton and Avonmouth using all the stops along the Portway, too. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • In partnership with Bristol Airport, we are pleased to announce that the frequency of service A1 will be increased from every 12 minutes to every 7/8 minutes on weekdays, and to every 8 mins on Saturdays and Sundays. There will also be more buses in the evenings and overnight.

New timetable coming soon.

Yate & Thornbury

  • New timetable on all days to improve its punctuality and reliability.
  • Buses will run slightly less frequently to give buses more time to complete their journeys, following increased traffic congestion being experienced along the route – but will still run roughly every half an hour during the main part of the day on Monday - Saturday. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • New timetable on all days to improve its punctuality and reliability.
  • Buses will run slightly less frequently to give buses more time to complete their journeys, following increased traffic congestion being experienced along the route – but will still run roughly every half an hour during the main part of the day on Monday - Saturday. 

New timetable coming soon.

No change.

  • There will be punctuality based changes to the timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.
  •  Increased number of peak time trips in the mornings that will run Monday to Friday. 

New timetable coming soon.

North Somerset

  • This service will have its usual summer season uplift, with the Monday – Saturday frequency increased from every 60 minutes to every 30 minutes.
  • The Sunday service will also resume for the summer, operating every 30 minutes with last the last Sunday of operation being Sunday 2nd November 2025. 
  • At Weston-super-Mare Interchange, buses will now use stop B towards the Railway Station instead of stop D. 

New timetable coming soon.

Service 5 will be withdrawn and replaced by service 9 – please see details of service 9 below.  

  • In the Worle direction, service 6 will move to the opposite side of Weston-super-Mare Interchange, and now use stand D. This is to take advantage of a scheme that will allow buses to turn left out of the Interchange and onto Alfred Street. This change will also mean that the 6 can bypass queuing traffic for Tesco and the Francis Fox Road/Station Road roundabout upon departure from the Interchange.  
  • Buses on service 7 towards Worle will also move to this side of the interchange - please see below.

New timetable coming soon.

  • There are significant changes to service 7. The southern part of the 7 will be bolstered by the addition of two new variations of the route, the 7B and 7H, that will coordinate with the main 7 service to provide a service every 15 minutes between Oldmixon, Weston General Hospital, Coronation Estate and Weston town centre. These additional services will take a quicker route from Oldmixon and the Hospital, making use of Drove Road rather than Walliscote Road and Severn Road.  
  • In addition, in Weston town centre, the 7 will be re-routed away from the seafront to save time, so it can be invested in the service’s punctuality. Heading towards Worle, the 7 will now enter the Interchange from Walliscote Road and serve Stop E at the Interchange (the current route 7 stop for buses heading towards Locking Parklands). It will then make a left turn onto Alfred Street, before turning right onto The Boulevard and resuming the current route. Towards Locking Parklands, the service will operate the reverse of the above and serve Stop H in the Interchange. Note, that Stop E and Stop H have been swapped in terms of 7 destination; in simple terms, customers for the Worle direction will now need to use Stop E and not H. Customers wishing to travel towards Locking Parklands will need to use Stop H and not E. 
  • The main pattern of the service (Locking Parklands to Worle) will be reduced to half-hourly. It is advised that passengers wishing to head towards Worle High Street and Worle Terminus also make use of the 6 service, which has equivalent journey times to both Worle High Street and Worle Terminus. For convenience, the 6 will also move to start its journey to Worle from Stop E in Weston Interchange, the same stop as the 7. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • A new service 7B will operate in tandem with the 7 and will offer an enhanced frequency of buses to Weston General Hospital and Loxton Road Campus.  
  • The route will operate from Weston Interchange and down Drove Road where it will pick up the current 7 route as far as Weston Hospital, and then commence a loop around Bleadon Hill, serving Burnham Drive and Totterdown Lane. This service will run hourly from around 8:30am till 6pm on weekdays.  
  • The service will offer residents of Bleadon Hill direct links to Weston Hospital, Loxton Campus, and upon reaching Weston Interchange, some journeys will continue onto Worle, Clevedon and Portishead as the X5. Customers may travel to these destinations directly from Bleadon by asking for a through ticket and remaining on the bus when it arrives at Weston Interchange. Please refer to timetables and their notes to identify which 7B trips continue on to Clevedon and Portishead.  

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • A new service 7H will operate in tandem with the 7 and will offer an enhanced frequency of buses to Weston General Hospital and Loxton Road Campus.  
  • The route will operate from Weston Interchange and down Drove Road where it will pick up the current 7 route, before extending out to Hutton. This service will run hourly from around 8am to 6pm on weekdays and Saturdays.  
  • The service will offer residents of Hutton direct links to Weston Hospital, Loxton Campus, and upon reaching Weston Interchange, some journeys will continue as service X5 onto Worle, Clevedon and Portishead. Customers may travel to these destinations directly from Hutton by asking for a through ticket and remaining on the bus when it arrives at Weston Interchange. Please refer to timetables and their notes to identify which 7H trips continue on to Clevedon and Portishead.  

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Service 9 will be restructured and operate for more of the day and on Saturdays, too.
  • Buses will operate generally every two hours from Worle Retail Park, Queensway, Worlebury, Bristol Road Lower and then via South Road, Atlantic Road, Maderia Road and the seafront into Weston-super-Mare town centre, replacing service 5.  
  • The 9 will no longer serve West Wick or the Flowerdown area, which will be served by new service X11.

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • This service will have its usual summer season uplift, with the Monday – Saturday frequency increased from every 70 minutes to every 35 minutes.
  • The Sunday service will also resume, operating hourly between 0900 and 1800.
  • The last day of the Sunday operation will be Sunday 2nd November 2025.
  • At Weston-super-Mare Interchange, the 20 will now use stop I.

New timetable coming soon.

No change.

  • Service 126 will see significant changes following a tendering process by North Somerset and Somerset Councils.
  • To speed up the journey to and from Weston-super-Mare, buses will run from Banwell via the A371, Hutton Moor and Locking Road, instead of via Hutton and Uphill. Hutton will now be served by the new 7H service.  
  • The timetable will be revised on all days, and the frequency on Saturdays improved with two buses now running the service instead of one. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • The X1 will have a new timetable including extra evening journeys on Monday to Saturday and a new night service will operate on Friday and Saturday nights. This will run as new route X14 (see below) and will connect Bristol and Weston via the Portway, Portishead and Clevedon. 
  • Two X1 journeys a day will run as an X1s via Long Ashton to provide extra capacity for students attending Backwell School. One journey in the morning will run from Bristol to Weston via Long Ashton, arriving at Backwell Crossroads in time for school opening. In the afternoon, one journey will run from Weston to Bristol via Long Ashton, around school finishing time. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • The X4 will have a new timetable, including extra evening journeys on Monday to Saturday and a new night bus will operate on Friday and Saturday nights. This will run as new route X14 (see below) and will connect Bristol and Portishead via the Portway, and then continue to Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • To provide more direct and faster journeys, service X5 will be re-routed between Clevedon and Worle via the M5 motorway, bypassing Yatton, Cleeve and Congresbury.
  • In Clevedon, buses will return to operating between the town centre and motorway junction via Old Church Road, Southern Way and Central Way. In Weston-super-Mare, buses will operate directly between Worle Retail Park and the town centre via Locking Road. 
  • New service X11 will provide a replacement to many areas that X5 will no longer serve – please see the service X11 section below. 
  • At Portishead, buses will now operate between the town centre and Sainsbury’s via Harbour Road. The school journey to/from the Sheepway will no longer operate. 
  • The frequency will be reduced to roughly every 90 minutes, with key journeys running in both directions at peak times. All X5 journeys will run through to Weston College Loxton Road Campus and Weston General Hospital as another service (either service 7B or 7H), and the same in the other direction. Through fares will be available.  

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Service X6 will see significant improvements following increased usage of this service, being enhanced to a frequency of every 30 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes and therefore doubling the number of fast, direct buses between Clevedon and Bristol. The last bus from Bristol will operate later than at present, and in addition, the X6 will be introduced on Sundays and Public Holidays at an hourly frequency, offering an extra, fast bus per hour between Clevedon and Bristol on this day.  
  • At Clevedon, service X6 will no longer serve the Walton Park/Dial Hill area, with all journeys terminating instead at Six Ways. Services X7 and X7a will serve this area instead. 
  • A new night bus will operate on Friday and Saturday nights from Bristol via the Portway to Portishead, Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. This will run as new service X14 - please see below for details.

New timetable & route map coming soon.

  • Service X7 will undergo significant changes to provide better connections between the towns and villages of North Somerset, offering a greater possibility for direct journeys between large parts of Clevedon, Tickenham, Nailsea and Nailsea and Backwell Station. At Clevedon, journeys will serve the Walton Park/Dial Hill area during Monday – Saturday daytimes, replacing the X6 there. 
  • Between Nailsea and Bristol, the service will operate via Backwell instead of Wraxall, and use the Long Ashton by-pass (instead of running via the village), as per the current X8 route, which it will replace. The service will run hourly initially, and on Sundays and evenings will operate as a modified version of the route, service X7a, that will serve Long Ashton rather than use the Long Ashton by-pass. Existing customers of the X7 for Long Ashton and Wraxall during the daytime on Monday – Saturdays should use the X9 which will remain on its current route.
  • A new night bus will operate on Friday and Saturday nights from Bristol via the Portway to Portishead, Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. This will run as new service X14 - please see below for details.

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Service withdrawn and substantively replaced by the X7/X7a, please see above

  • Revised timetable on all days to improve punctuality and reliability.

New timetable coming soon.

  • This new tendered service will replace parts of the old X5 route in Weston and beyond. The X11 will operate a 2 hourly timetable on weekdays and Saturdays, and will serve Locking Castle, West Wick, Congresbury, Claverham and Yatton between the hours of 7am and 7pm. 
  • Through connections with service 9 in Weston, which will serve South Road and Worlebury on a similar timetable and operate with the same bus, will be available. However, customers are warned that connections may not be guaranteed as a result of unforeseen congestion or other factors. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • We are pleased to be announcing a new night service that will connect to major towns in North Somerset on Friday and Saturday nights, with departures at 01:15 and 02:15 from Bristol Bus Station.
  • The service will pick up at stops on The Centre, Anchor Road, Hotwell Road and then run via the Portway to Portishead before continuing to Clevedon, Worle and Weston-super-Mare. When leaving Bristol, we’ll stop at Shirehampton and Avonmouth using all the stops along the Portway, too. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • In partnership with Bristol Airport, we are pleased to announce that service A3 will be doubling in frequency & now run 24/7.
  • The service will additionally observe (on request only) Brockley Combe Stores bus stops both to and from Bristol Airport.
  • At Weston-super-Mare Interchange, there will be a stand change from stand F to stand B for towards Bristol Airport, and from I to J on journeys towards Weston-super-Mare. 

New timetable coming soon.

Bath & Somerset

The below services have no change to their route or timetable, so please refer to their current timetable & route map:

  • 1 (Bath City Centre – Southdown)
  • 3 (Bathford – Bath City Centre – Weston)
  • 4 (Odd Down – Bath City Centre – Weston)
  • 5 (Bath City Centre – Whiteway)
  • 6, 6a and 7 (Bath City Centre – Fairfield Park & Larkhill)
  • 13 (Foxhill – Bath City Centre – Elmhurst)
  • 19 (Bath City Centre – Bristol Parkway Station)
  • 20 (Bath City Centre – Ralph Allen School)
  • 22 (University of Bath – Southdown)
  • 58 (Odd Down – Twerton)
  • U1 and U2 (University of Bath – Oldfield Park)
  • 55 (Wrantage – Strode College)
  • 374 (Bristol – Wells / Wells – Taunton)
  • 376 (Bristol – Wells / Wells – Yeovil)
  • 376a (Bristol – Wells)
  • 376x (Wells – Yeovil)     

  • There will be a minor route change to prevent buses from meeting on Patch Street. Buses from the City Centre will operate along Bradford Road, turning right into Fox Hill before completing the Queens Drive loop. The current route via The Hub at Mulberry Park will then be followed back into the City Centre.
  • Also, the frequency of buses will be increased and a Sunday evening service will be introduced.  

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • Service 8 will now operate on Sundays and Public Holidays, too. The first bus will leave Kingsway at 09:45 and the last departure from the City Centre will be 17:40. Journeys will operate at the same departure times as Monday – Saturday between these journeys.  

New timetable coming soon.

  • Services 39 and X39 will see their timetables changed to reflect changes to traffic patterns along the A4 corridor. In addition, some X39s in the early evening will become 39s and operate via Keynsham between Bristol and Bath. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • The route of service D1 will be amended in Trowbridge for buses heading to Bath. Buses will return to operating from Longfield Roundabout via Castle Street, Fore Street and Wicker Hill. There is no change to the existing timetable. Passengers towards Bath are advised to use Fore Street and not the Town Hall stop.  

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • The route of service D1x will be amended in Trowbridge, buses will operate from Stallard Street via Bythesea Road and Tesco Superstore before calling at Fore Street and returning to Bath. There is a slight change to the times of buses around Trowbridge due to this change of route. Passengers towards Bath are advised to use Fore Street and not the Town Hall stop. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.  

  • The route of service D2x will be amended to operate into Bath through Norton St Philip, Hinton Charthouse and Midford , instead of via Radstock and Peasedown St. John. This provides an increased frequency between Norton St. Philip, Hinton Charterhouse and Bath.
  • Service D2x will operate from Frome Sainsbury’s via The Butts, Frome Market Place, Fromefield, and then then A361, A36 & B3110. It will not serve Critchill, Brunel Way, Beckington or Rode. From Bath, upon reaching Sainsbury’s, buses will change from a D2 to a D2x and vice versa, meaning that passengers can use either service for Critchill. 
  • Service D2 will no longer serve Frome Railway Station with all journeys running to and from Frome Sainsbury’s via Critchill, and all journeys will now serve Rode. Both services have a revised timetable. 

New timetable & route map coming soon.

  • Revised timetable with buses operating up to every 10 minutes.  

New timetable coming soon.

  • Service 126 will see significant changes following a tendering process by North Somerset and Somerset Councils.
  • To speed up the journey to and from Weston-super-Mare, buses will run from Banwell via the A371, Hutton Moor and Locking Road, instead of via Hutton and Uphill. Hutton will now be served by the new 7H service.  
  • The timetable will be revised on all days, and the frequency on Saturdays improved with two buses now running the service instead of one. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • The 171 has had its route diverted slightly in Midsomer Norton to serve the new The Hollies bus stop (this change started as a diversion in late-February).
  • There is a minor change to Monday – Friday departures from Bath at 20:00 & 21:00, which will now depart 10 minutes earlier. 

New timetable & route map coming soon.

  • The 172 has had its route diverted slightly in Midsomer Norton to serve the new The Hollies bus stop (this change started as a diversion in late-February).
  • Some minor changes to running times between Midsomer Norton and Bath to provide even spacing of services. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • TBC

  • The 174 has had its Sunday and Public Holiday (via Chilcompton) route diverted slightly in Midsomer Norton to serve the new The Hollies bus stop (this change started as a diversion in late-February). Monday-Saturday journeys already served The Hollies.
  • The Monday - Friday 13:22 trip from Wells will now depart at 13:17 to provide a combined 15 minute frequency.

New timetable & route map coming soon.

  • The 373 will undergo a route change. In Glastonbury towards Street, instead of taking the Wells Road upon reaching the Tin Bridge Roundabout and passing Avalon Estate, the 373 will now run via the Old Wells Road, and serve Windmill Hill via Windmill Hill Road and Leg of Mutton Road in both directions, providing a better link to West Mendip Hospital. 

New route map & timetable coming soon.

  • This service will no longer call at Catcott St Peter’s Church due to frequent issues with bad parking and buses getting stuck. It is planned for new bus stops to be created on the main road instead. There will otherwise be no change to the timetable. 

New timetable coming soon.

  • TBC
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