Arriva are making numerous timetable changes taking effect on Sunday 24th September. These will result in some vehicles leaving depots and it is believed the allocation to Bangor depot will reduce by at least 6 buses.
The main changes involve Anglesey and most of the changes in the North East Wales area are minor.
Service: 1/1A: Chester to Blacon will at last be re-numbered to 14 and there are no changes to the route or times. This will leave only two other services with the route number 1 (To Liverpool and Wrexham)
Service 3: Broughton to Chester circular revised to operate every 60 minutes Monday-Friday reducing the PVR to 1. The
Monday – Saturday 5:26 and 6:26 journeys with returning journeys to
Boughton from Chester at 05:55 and 06:55 are withdrawn. These journeys
are replaced by 4B journeys departing Broughton at 05:26 and 06:26 which
will now terminate at Chester Railway Station at 05:55 and 06:55.
The
Monday – Saturday 18:26 journey from Broughton with returning journeys
at 18:55 to Boughton is withdrawn. This will be partially replaced with a
journey at 18:45 from Chester to Broughton Village.
Service 4: Mold to Chester - Service revised generally to improve punctuality, particularly with time added at peak times. Additional journeys from Broughton to Chester Railway Station at 05:26 and 06:26 replacing journeys withdrawn on service 3. To
improve punctuality journeys that previously operated at 18:10, 19:10,
20:00 and 21:00 as a 4S diverting through Broughton will now operate as a
4.
4B journeys introduced at 19:40 and 20:40 introduced operating
from Chester Railway Station and terminating at Broughton Village. On
Sunday’s departures from Chester Railway Station have been shifted from
20/50 to 15/45 to improve co-ordination with service 11.
Service 5: Mold to Ellesmere Port Service revised generally to improve punctuality
AM
& PM journeys that operate to Mold Alun currently are revised to
operate an alternative route to improve punctuality. On school days, in
the morning the service will operate via Mold bypass and Wrexham Road
before terminating at Mold Bus Station and in the afternoon the service
will operate the reverse. This means that stops on Chester Road will be
omitted on these two journeys during school time. These two journeys
will also not operate into the Campus car park due to the impact on
punctuality. Customers will need to board at stops on Wrexham Road.
Wrexham area
Service: 1 Wrexham to Chester - Additional time in the peaks and revised intermediates to improve punctuality. Service will now stop at the bus stop on Hoole Way after Chester Railway Station.
Service: 2/2a/2c Wrexham to Cefn Mawr/Chirk - Additional time in the peaks and revised intermediates to improve punctuality. Buses will now depart at different times.
Service 5: Wrexham to Llangollen - Revised intermediates to improve punctuality
Morning journeys from Llangollen to Wrexham to operate 5 minutes earlier to improve punctuality
06:40
Llangollen – Wrexham journey now timed to arrive into Wrexham at 07:18
Service 7 & 8: Wrexham to Caia Park Revised intermediate times to improve punctuality at peak times
Service 11: Wrexham to Minera- 11A journeys (early morning) will now operate between Gwynfryn and Coepoeth via Ruthin Road and Minera Hall Road
Service 21: Wrexham to Summerhill Revised intermediates to improve punctuality
Service 42: Wrexham to Hightown - Route
revised due to customer feedback. Service now no longer operate via St
Giles Way, Brook Street, Pentre Fellin and Watery Road. The service will
now operate will operate into/from Wrexham via Eagles Meadow as per the
route of services 7 & 8
Rhyl area
Service 12: Llandudno to Rhyl - Passengers have responded well to
the increase in service to every 12 minutes in the off-peak. As a result
we will be increasing the morning peak journeys to every 12 minutes. Saturday summer service reduced from 12 minutes to 15 minutes for winter.
Sunday summer Service reduced from 15 minutes to 20 minutes for winter.
Service 83/83A: Rhyl Circular - Revisions to intermediates to improve punctuality
Service
withdrawn from Rhyl Skips area to improve punctuality. Customers will
now need to board at the stop on Marsh Road opposite Gwynfryn Avenue. We
are in discussions with Denbighshire County Council about siting a stop
closer to Rhyl skips along Marsh road and will update this page if this
is progressed.
Llandudno and Colwyn Bay
Service 23: Tan Lan to Colwyn Bay - The Monday to Friday journey at 0800 is withdrawn, the 07:50 school day will continue to operate.
Service 25: Llandudno to Eglwysbach - X25 07:17 Pentre-Fellin – 07:43 Llandudno withdrawn
25 07:24 Pentre-Fellin – 08:18 revised to operate at 07:11 arriving at Llandudno at 08:05
Bangor and Angelsey Area
Service 4, 4A, 4B, 4H, 4R, 4X, 544: Bangor to Llangefni and Holyhead
The number of passengers currently using the service cannot support the current level of resource, with passenger levels remaining below pre covid levels whilst at the same times costs have increased substantially.
The closure of the Menai Suspension Bridge has caused major disruption to the service with extra resource invested to maintain the current timetables due to the lengthy diversion we must undertake between Bangor and Menai.
The change is not something we have taken lightly given the impact it will have, but the service needs to be revised to improve its viability, reduce the funding required to operate it and reflect the long term works on the Menai Bridge.
The Bangor to Llangefni and Holyhead service is being amended to operate a simplified 60-minute service. In addition, the service will be enhanced at certain times of day to operate every 30 minutes between Bangor and Llangefni on Mondays-Fridays. There is also a reduction in early morning journeys Monday to Saturday.
Further details available from the Arriva website
