Doncaster Balloon Festival
Doncaster Balloon Festival, 19th and 20th July at Town Field Doncaster.
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Your services
- 366 - every 12 to 15 mins daytime until 1800 extra buses after 2000 up to every 15 mins on Saturday evening.
- 381/382 every 10 to 12 mins daytime until 1800, then every 20 to 30 mins.
- 365, 384, 384a, 387, 387a and 388 - get off the bus at Thorne Road/Kings Road
- 355, 356, 357 - get off the bus on Bennethorpe.
Travel Alerts
272 and 772 revised timetable from 17 June
From 17 June until 13 September the road to Brough will be closed to enable repairs to a wall, this means our service 272 will not be able to serve Bradwell during the closure. An alternative timetable will be in operation during this period.
Our 772 service to Hope Valley College will also be affected during this time period, and will operate via Tideswell crossroads, following a revised timetable.
For 272 timetables, please click >> here. For 772 timetables, please click >> here.
South Yorkshire changes from 7th April
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We will be making some timetable changes and renumbering some of our services across South Yorkshire to improve punctuality, bringing more links and buses for the community. All Doncaster buses will start with the number 3 to differentiate our cross services and simplify them.
Please read below of all the changes. See information booklet here >> here
See timetables >> here
Sheffield/Rotherham changes
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| 10/X10 - becomes X2 | Sheffield – Rotherham – Maltby – Doncaster |
Service 10 will be replaced by service X2 and run between Sheffield and Doncaster, serving Brightside, Meadowhall, Masbrough, Rotherham, Wickersley, Maltby, Braithwell, Edlington, Warmsworth and Balby. This is following customer feedback to reinstate a through service between Rotherham, Wickersley, Flanderwell, Bramley, Hellaby, Maltby, Braithwell, Edlington, Balby and Doncaster. |
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| X1/X10 - X10 becomes X2 | Sheffield – Rotherham – Maltby – Doncaster |
X10 to be renumbered as X2. Between Sheffield and Rotherham, both services will run through Bright side and Masbrough (switching over routes with X1/X10) with changes to the times. |
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| X78 - becomes X3 | Sheffield – Rotherham – Doncaster | Service X78 will be re-numbered X3. Between Sheffield and Rotherham buses will run Attercliffe (switching over routes with X1/X10) with changes to the times. | |
| X5 | Sheffield – Dinnington – Maltby | Service X5 will extend beyond Dinnington to run through to Maltby, serving Thurcroft, Bramley and Hellaby on an hourly basis. This will provide access to employment at Hellaby/Maltby and also provide a direct link to Sheffield from Thurcroft and Laughton Common. | |
| 24 | Woodhouse - Sheffield-Lowedges | A new timetable will be introduced to improve coordination with service 25. | |
| 52a | Woodhouse - Hillsborough | Service 52A will be extended to serve Wisewood and Loxley following a demand in service. Buses will run more frequent at every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes. Between Hillsborough and Woodhouse, buses will remain every 15 minutes, but the times will be amended to provide better co-ordination with Stagecoach. | |
| 97 | Hillsborough - Totley | Service 97 - 0540 from Totley cancelled, 0546 from Totley Brook runs 6 minutes earlier to maintain a similar arrival time in the city. | |
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Rotherham - Treeton - Sheffield | A revised evening and Sunday timetable will be introduced with buses running a 2 hourly service instead of 130 minutes. Following customer requests, an additional departure will be added from AMRC to Rotherham at 16:25 | |
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Rotherham - East Herringthorpe/Ravenfield Common | Will see a minor change to the evening timetable, the frequency will remain the same. | |
| 139/142 | Rotherham - Kimberworth Park | More buses will run on Sundays with an increased frequency of every hour. | |
| 208 | Sheffield - Whiston | New times introduced to help with punctuality. |
Doncaster changes:
| Service Number | Route | Changes |
| 14 - becomes service 314 | Doncaster - Edlington |
Service 14 will be re-numbered 314. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time. |
| 15 - becomes service 315 | Doncaster - Edlington | Service 15 will be re-numbered 315 and will operate between Doncaster and Edlington only. An improved frequency will be introduced with buses running up to every 12 minutes during Monday to Saturday daytime and every 30 minutes in the evening and on Sundays. Service 376 will be reintroduced to serve Clay Lane. |
| 16 - becomes services 316 | Doncaster - Balby | Service 16 will be re-numbered 316. |
| 41/41a - becomes service 341 | Doncaster - Scawsby | Service 41 will be re-numbered 341. Revised timetable to improve punctuality/coordination. Reintroduction of 41a (341a) journeys will give a combined hourly service. |
| 50/50a/50b - becomes service 350, 351 and 352 | Doncaster - Skellow | Services 50, 50A & 50B will be re-numbered to 350, 351 & 352 with a revised timetable to improve punctuality. |
| 52 - becomes service 353 | Doncaster - Red House direct | Service 52 will be re-numbered 353 to match the York Road services. |
| 54 - becomes service 354 | Doncaster - Woodlands | Service 54 will be re-numbered 354. The frequency will increase from every 30 minutes to every 20 minutes which will provide more buses to Scawthorpe and Woodlands. |
| 55/56 - becomes 355 and 356 | Doncaster - Rossington | Services 55 & 56 will be re-numbered 355 & 356. The frequency will increase from every 15 minutes to every 12 minutes which will provide more buses to iPort, Lakeside and Rossington (Please note, service i4 is unchanged). |
| 57/57a - becomes 357 and 357a | Doncaster - Cantley- Finningley |
Service 57 & 57A will be re-numbered 357 & 357A. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time, and following customer feedback will serve Warning Tongue Lane (Cantley) hourly. A teatime journey will extend to serve Epworth providing an evening journey to Westwood side, Haxey and Epwroth under contract to North Lincs Council. This will return in service to give an evening bus into Doncaster that arrives just after 8pm. |
| 58 - becomes service 358 | Doncaster - West Bessacarr | Service 58 will be re-numbered 358. Following customer feedback this service will now operate in both directions along Stoops Lane , buses towards the city will use the shelters previously provided. Buses will operate every 30-40 minutes. |
| 59 - becomes service 359 | Doncaster-Finningley | Service 59 will be re-numbered 359. |
| 64 - becomes service 364 & 364a | Doncaster - Bentley - Arksey | Service 64 will be re-numbered 364 & 364A. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time. |
| 65 - becomes service 365 | Doncaster - Intake | Service 65 will be re-numbered 365. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time. |
| 66 | Intake - Bentley | Service 66 will be re-numbered 366 A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time. |
| 71/72/73 - becomes 371, 372 & 373 | Doncaster - Balby - Laekeside circular | Services 71, 72 & 73 will be re-numbered 371, 372 & 373. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time. |
| 15 - becomes service 376 | Doncaster - Clay Lane | A new service 376 will be introduced to replace service 15 between Doncaster and Clay Lane. Splitting this service will help keep buses on time because they will not get held up if Balby Road is congested. |
| 81/82 - becomes service 381 & 382 | Doncaster - Armthorpe | Services 81 & 82 will be re-numbered 381 & 382. A new timetable will be introduced with an increased frequency of every 12 minutes on Saturday to meet demand. To reflect falling passenger numbers on Sunday the frequency will be every 20 minutes. |
| 84 - becomes service 384 & 384a | Doncaster - Thorne | Service 84 will be re-numbered 384 & 384A. Following customer feedback we are introducing a revised network of services that will serve more communities in the North East Doncaster area. During the day journeys will be extended from Barnby Dun to Stainforth and Hatfield/Westfield Green. A new timetable will be introduced with an increased frequency of every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday during the day. Service 384A will operate in the evenings and on Sundays. A revised timetable will be introduced to co-ordinate with service 387. |
| 84a - becomes service 385 | Barnby Dun-Moorlands Prison | Service 84A will be re-numbered 385 |
| 87/87a - becomes 387 & 387a | Doncaster – Thorne – Moorends | Service 87 will be re-numbered 387 & 387A. Service 87A will be replaced by service 388. Following customer feedback, we are introducing a revised network of services that will serve more communities in the North East Doncaster area. Service 388 will run between Doncaster and Thorne, providing a direct service to Hatfield Woodhouse to/from Doncaster. During the late afternoon buses will extend through to Moorends providing more links and better coordination. A new timetable will be introduced with buses running every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday during the day on service 387. Service 387A will operate in the evenings and on Sundays and coordinate with service 384A. |
| 205 - becomes service 305 | Doncaster - Tickhill | Service 205 will be re-numbered 305 |
| 456 | Woodfield - Rossington - McAuley School - Doncaster | Morning journey to reflect the afternoon journey (455) currently provided. This has been as a result of public demand. |