*Please note. this service update was amended on 03/05/2024.

Reason for amendment: added specification of bus stops temporarily not being served on Osborne Street - bus stops Ae & Af.

A section of St John's St, Colchester will be closed for roadworks from Wednesday 1st May to to Friday 3rd May 2024.

Due to the location of the road closure all Colchester services will likely experience small delays.

The following services will be placed on diversion:

See below our operating times for the upcoming early May bank holiday:

Please click here for our timetables.

See below our operating times for the upcoming early May bank holiday:

Please click here for our timetables.

There will be an Emergency Closure on Wednesday the 24th of April  along Helston Road, Penryn.

NOW OPEN - 15:30 Wednesday 1st May - Service D2 now back on normal route.

The High Street in Hinton Charterhouse will be closed to service D2 between 07:00 and 19:00 on Monday 29th, Tuesday 30th April and Wednesday 1st May to facilitate carriageway works.

Service D2 will be diverted from Bath Bus Station to resume normal route at the junction of the A36 and  Frome Road. The service D2 will divert as the D2X between these points.

Please note: we will be operating a Sunday service over the May bank holidays across the First Eastern Counties network

Please plan ahead and refer to timetables: Route maps | First Bus 

Queens Road will be one way heading to Woodend only between Forest Road and Spademill Road from 09:00 on 06 May until 09:00 on 07 May.

Services heading to the city centre will divert as follows:

Service 11 heading from Woodend to Holburn
From the last stop before Anderson Drive:
• 1st exit onto Anderson Drive
• 3rd exit onto Kings Gate
• right onto Forest Road
• 1st exit onto Queens Road

Beaconsfield Drive will be closed Tuesday 23rd April until Friday 26th April between 09:30 & 15:30 each day.

We will be using Church Road, Longton road & Magdalen Road.

A shuttle bus will operate between Beaconsfield Drive and Finstock Avenue, with passengers dropped off and picked up outside the Church on Finstock Avenue.

We're making some improvements to our bus network on 9th June 2024. This includes increasing the frequencies of three services and the introduction of two new services - including a new service to Caswell Bay!

Check the drop-down boxes below for more information on the services that are changing, complete with downloadable timetables.