Potteries Service Changes - 3rd January

We’re introducing a revised timetable with much more consistent and memorable departure times.

We’re introducing brand new early morning and evening journeys on Monday to Fridays. We’re also introducing a revised timetable with much more consistent and memorable departure times to improve coordination with new Kidsgrove corridor services 3 & 4. Sunday frequency revised to every 1h20 minutes. 

We’re introducing two new early morning journeys towards Hanley on Monday to Fridays as well as new early morning journeys towards Stafford on Monday to Saturdays. Revised timetable will offer much more consistent and memorable departure times. 

We’re introducing a more frequent revised timetable, with last departures from Newcastle around 30 mins later then currently scheduled. 

These services have been withdrawn and will be replaced by services 3 and 4.

Sunday service revised with buses departing Hanley 16 mins later to better align departure times with Monday to Saturday D&G service. 

This service has been withdrawn, shift time links to Lymedale Business Park maintained on Monday to Saturdays on new service 3 and 4. 

This service has been withdrawn and will be fully replaced with new journeys on services 3, 4, 6 and 6A.

We’re improving frequencies on Mondays to Fridays with buses running every 12 mins off-peak, up to every 8/11 minutes during morning peak and every 13 mins at afternoon peak times.  

On vacation days we’ll maintain the same core timetable between Hanley and Newcastle with every other journey extended through to Keele. 

3 - Hanley – Burslem - Tunstall - Kidsgrove  - Talke – Crackley – Newcastle – Hanley (Anticlockwise loop)  

4 - Hanley – Newcastle – Crackley – Talke - Kidsgrove – Tunstall – Burslem – Hanley (Clockwise loop)  

The revised 3 & 4 are based on the current 38 & 39 full loops but will have a revised routing around Crackley and Chesterton to take in more stops.  

We’re introducing brand new evening journeys every day of the week on service 3 & 4 between Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall & Kidsgrove. These will replace trips that previously operated as service 36 & 36A.  

We’re Introducing new early morning journeys Mondays to Saturdays from Hanley & Newcastle to Lymedale to replace trips that previously operated as service 37. 

On Mondays to Fridays service 3 and 4 will both run the full loops each at every 15 minutes. Service 103 between Kidsgrove & Tunstall running every 30 minutes will provide a frequency of up to every 7/8 minutes with no gaps greater than 15 minutes in daytime.  

On Saturdays service 3 and 4 will both run the full loops each at every 20 minutes. We’ll additionally run extra short journeys between Hanley and Kidsgrove so with Service 103 between Kidsgrove & Tunstall we will provide a frequency of up to every 10 minutes.

On Sundays service 3 and 4 will both run the full loops each at every 40 minutes. We’ll additionally run extra short journeys between Hanley and Kidsgrove so with Service 103 between Kidsgrove & Tunstall we will provide a frequency of up to every 20 minutes.  

We’re introducing a more frequent revised timetable with last departures from Newcastle around 30 mins later then current timings. Sunday frequency will be revised to every 1h20. 

We’re introducing a revised timetable with much more consistent and memorable departure times. 

We’re introducing a revised timetable with an increase in number of journeys and much more consistent and memorable departure times.

We’re introducing a revised timetable with much more consistent and memorable departure times on services 11 and 11B. We will no longer be running service 11X and as a result, we will no longer serve Saxonfields. 

On Mondays to Fridays buses will now run every 11 minutes between Hanley and Bentilee and every 22 minutes to Newcastle. We’re introducing frequency increases on weekends with Saturdays up to every 12/13 minutes combined and Sundays every 30 minutes combined with the introduction of a new 11B hourly Sunday service.  

We’re introducing a revised timetable with additional journeys on Monday to Friday and a brand new Saturday service. 

We’re introducing a revised timetable with an increase in number of journeys and more consistent, memorable departure times.

We’re introducing a revised timetable with much more consistent and memorable departure times. Buses will run every 15 minutes (every 30 mins on each) on Monday to Saturday and every 30 minutes (hourly on each) on Sundays.  

Service 6 and 6A will now benefit from additional early morning and evening journeys, replacing journeys previously operated as service 36 and 36A. 

To improve connectivity and to simplify our network all journeys on service 6 on Mondays to Saturdays will now serve both Coalville and Park Hall.  

We will no longer run service 6C, with all journeys served as either service 6 or 6A.