High Street , Wickham Market Service 63 & 64

Ipswich town centre

Monday 6th May 2024

Ipswich Town FC have won their spot in the Premier League and will celebrate with a parade on Monday, 6th May, the bank holiday.

Route diversions

The Ipswich Town FC parade to celebrate promotion to the Premier League will mean several diversions within the town centre, these are detailed below. All diversions will be in place from start of service until 14:00.

Service 4 Bixley – Ipswich town centre

Inbound - Usual route until St Helens Street then Grimwade Street, Fore Street, Salthouse Street, Key Street, College Street, Star Lane, Turrett Lane into Old Cattle Market STAND M.

Outbound –from Old Cattle Market into Dogs Head Street, Upper Brook Street and then usual route.

This service will not serve Tower Ramparts during the diversion

Service 65 Woodbridge- Ipswich

Service 66 Martlesham - Ipswich

Services 75/77 Felixstowe – Ipswich

Inbound - Usual route until St Helens Street then Grimwade Street,

Fore Street, Salthouse Street, Key Street, College Street, Star Lane, Turrett Lane into Old Cattle Market

Outbound – usual route from Old Cattle Market

Service 66 will terminate at Old Cattle Market and will not serve the rail station during the diversion.

Additional services

Additional services will be operating on

88 Stowmarket – Ipswich

800 Ipswich Park and Ride - FREE on 6th May 2024

Park and Ride services will operate to and from Stand L at Old Cattle Market.

Please see below timetable for additional services. Please note that these services are subject to change based on traffic conditions on the day.

Please ensure you plan your journey in advance, allow extra time, and expect possible delays due to road closures for the parade.

Due to footway reconstruction work, our Red Line 24/24B services will be on diversion away from Hillcrest Road until Friday 19th July.

During this time, services will operate via Gordon Avenue & Thor Road.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to your journey.

Due to a collapsed sewer on Blofield Road in Brundall, it has been closed from Monday 29th April to Friday 24th May.

During this time, service 16 will operate as normal, and be the ONLY bus service to Brundall.

Service 15/15A will omit Brundall and operate along Yarmouth Road only, resuming normal route at The Kings Head in Blofield.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to your journey.

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 

Yarmouth Road Lowestoft currently has ongoing Drainage and Carriageway Improvement works in place until June 24. 

Due to the impact of the traffic delays that these works are having it may be necessary at some times to divert our Service 1, 101 & X1 services via Bentley Drive, Millenium Way and Oulton Road to safeguard our service and mitigate the delays to the wider Network. 

We apologise for the inconvenience to your Journey and are working with national Highways to try and minimise delays as much as possible. 

Due to works associated with the Transforming Cities scheme, Breckland Road will be closed between Tuesday 2nd April and Friday 7th June.

During this closure, services will instead be operating via Three Mile Lane with temporary stops provided for passengers to complete their journeys.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these works.

Due to a National Highways project taking place on the A47 between Swaffham & Kings Lynn, our services departing Norwich & Peterborough at 19:40 between Monday 26th February & Friday 24th May will be subject to a diversion route between Narborough & Kings Lynn on weeknights only.

In both diversions, services will be unable to serve any stops in Middleton & East Winch as buses will be operating via the B1153 & B1145 through Gayton.

We apologise for any inconvenience and delay these roadworks may cause to your journey.

London Road South Lowestoft will be closed from 1900hrs Wednesday 8th May 2024 to 0600hrs Thursday 9th May 2024 for Anglian Water Works near the junction of Claremont Road. 

Service X2, X21 will be diverted towards Lowestoft Bus Station left onto Carlton Road and right Tom Crisp Way to line of route at Asda. 

Contract Service towards Lowestoft will divert from Long Road left onto Tom Crisp Way to line of route at Asda. 

Norwich services are not effected. 

We apologise for the inconvenience to your journey

Penzance Road Kesgrave will be closed daily between 0930hrs & 1500hrs from Monday 15th April 2024 to Friday 3rd May 2024 to allow Suffolk County Council to carry out Footway Works. 

Service 66 & 66A will be unable to traverse their normal route and will be diverted via Bell Lane and Main Road in both directions.

These works have had their dates changed twice, without notification to us, and we apologies for any inconvenience to your journey that the prior unnecessary diversion had. 

Bascule Bridge, Lowestoft  will be closed for one night from 20:00hrs to 0600hrs, Monday 13th May 2024

Affected journeys towards Lowestoft will divert from Mill Road via Tom Crisp Way, Waveney Drive, Victoria Road, Bridge Road, Normanston Drive and Denmark Road to line of route. 

Services towards Norwich will operate the diversion in reverse. 

We apologise for the inconvenience to your journey.