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Post by joseph on Mar 19, 2022 0:19:17 GMT 1
It appears that next month, service 45 from York to Bridlington will be dramatically cut back, instead terminating at Holme on Spalding Moor. A section of the axed route will be replaced by a funded service funded by East Riding Council, but it does clearly spell the end of through York to Bridlington links. I wonder why the Coastliner service to Scarborough and Whitby does well enough to keep going, yet the equally well established long term York to Bridlington service has been axed even by Coastliner? It can't be down to pass holders, and can't be down to the train, otherwise you'd see the Coastliner to Scarborough struggle, or is that struggling in reality as well?
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Post by stephen01 on Mar 19, 2022 2:21:40 GMT 1
It appears that next month, service 45 from York to Bridlington will be dramatically cut back, instead terminating at Holme on Spalding Moor. A section of the axed route will be replaced by a funded service funded by East Riding Council, but it does clearly spell the end of through York to Bridlington links. I wonder why the Coastliner service to Scarborough and Whitby does well enough to keep going, yet the equally well established long term York to Bridlington service has been axed even by Coastliner? It can't be down to pass holders, and can't be down to the train, otherwise you'd see the Coastliner to Scarborough struggle, or is that struggling in reality as well? ghe 845 got dropped due to limited demand. For a while the 843 had certain trips to Brid as X43 but that stopped before Covid and not returned so far. So from York to Brid by bus you'd have to get Coastliner to Scarborough and swap to EY buses 12. |
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Post by joseph on Mar 19, 2022 8:14:08 GMT 1
More of an update on this, and it's a messy one. The funded service, numbered 145, will run 1 return journey from Driffield to Market Weighton early morning there, early evening back, and 4 return buses from Driffield to Middleton on the Wold and Lund. Now, this bit is super strange and I can't work out the reason why other than Bridlington depot covering in part. Service 45 is not fully withdrawn, but don't get your hopes up. It will run just one return journey, not from York to Bridlington, but from Bridlington to York. This won't be a useful journey what so ever for day trippers. Yes folks, it will depart Bridlington at 16.55, returning from York at 19.25, what was the point I wonder, could have just ran it not in service to Market Weighton if it was to be used as a fill in journey with the 46, which by the way sees additional journeys to maintain a mostly hourly Market Weighton to York frequency.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Mar 19, 2022 12:14:15 GMT 1
Years ago there was a 744 service from York to Bridlington so that would have been originally the WYRCC service 44 from Leeds to Bridlington (various revisions saw the Leeds–Pickering–Whitby route reinstated as the extra Leeds–York service, and the 845 with limited operation)
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Post by joseph on Mar 20, 2022 11:57:12 GMT 1
Hopefully there could be another way which someone on another forum has suggested, and that's to change from an X46/7 to a 121 at Beverley if connections run right. Many main places in between covered this way as well, e.g. Nafferton. Not ideal but it beats having to travel via Scarborough.
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