Press Releases

Buses of Somerset is making timetable changes to some services in Somerset. The changes, which have been added to improve service and capacity, come into force on June 3, 2024.

• Special ticket for all-day travel to support festival-goers and families

• Bus operator First Wessex has joined forces with Weldmar Hospicecare as Transport Partner for the Stampede by the Sea art trail 
• First Wessex’s Jurassic Coaster will take passengers along the trail 
• Partnership will encourage bus usage as a sustainable travel option to the trail 

• First Bus Leicester 'Official Fan Travel partner'.
• Services 88 and 88A travel to the ground every 10 minutes throughout the majority of the day.

• Teams spends a week helping set up new facilities
• Support to encourage customer collections from Asda on 23 & 24 May

• First Bus' Hoeford depot in Fareham provided electric charging for Renault Trucks’ electric HGV
• Renault Trucks’ eHGV ‘The Good Truck’ Roadshow is travelling across Europe to show the range of electric road freight vehicles and availability of charging infrastructure

• First Bus’ Hoeford depot in Fareham provided electric charging for Renault Trucks’ electric HGV
• Renault Trucks’ eHGV ‘The Good Truck’ Roadshow is travelling across Europe to show the range of electric road freight vehicles and availability of charging infrastructure

• Investment and co-funding from Department for Transport Zebra scheme
• Extra 22 electric buses brings zero emission fleet to 79 – half Bramley total
• Delivery of more buses expected in July 2024

• UK wide training programme aimed at upskilling colleagues so they can support others with mental health and wellbeing issues.
• Over 250 colleagues have become approved Mental Health First Aiders across the business. 
• Extensive Mental Health Champion training delivered to every line manager in the business by the end of the summer. 

• New Bradford network timetables introduced from Sunday 19 May
• Investment in three additional buses on key travel corridor
• X6 express and 72 services increased to each operate every 15 minutes

• First Bus announced it has been successful in being awarded a contract by Derbyshire County Council to run a new bus  service linking Killamarsh with Chesterfield. 
• The First Bus network in South Yorkshire now provides a bus link between the areas of Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, North east Derbyshire and Chesterfield.
• The new service 80 starts on Sunday 12th May 2024.