Lancaster University takes its Christmas holidays from 16 December 2018 until 13 January 2019 during which time bus services to the University are reduced.
This year the changes are a little different, following the network revision last October, with all the reductions affecting services along Greaves Road and through Scotforth.
Bowerham services are not affected and will not change.
Services affected are the 1 and the 4X.
Service 1
Frequency between Lancaster Bus Station and the University is reduced from every 10 minutes to every 20. Buses will leave the Bus Station at 17, 37 and 57 minutes past the hour and the University at 18, 38 and 58 minutes past. The evening and Sunday service between these points is withdrawn with the last bus from the Bus Station at 1837 and from the University at 1858.
There is no change to the service between the Bus Station and Heysham except that the 0000 and 0020 to Euston Road will not run. The last bus to Morecambe and Heysham will be at 2340 (Mondays to Saturdays). Sunday services on this part of the route continue as normal.
Alternative buses to the University, including evenings and Sundays, are available on services 2 and 4 via Bowerham.
Greaves Road and Scotforth are also served by services 40 41 and 42, with 41 and 42 operating via the University. Together with service 1 this will give six buses an hour along the A6, five of which will run via the University, although this does not result in a regular headway as shown below:
Buses will leave the Bus Station for the University via Greaves Road at the following minutes past each hour during the greater part of the day:
17 mins. past (Service1)
30 mins. past (Service 40 - not via University)
37 mins.past (Service 1)
46 mins past (Service 42) (Note after 1346 buses run at 1455, 1605, 1652 and 1742.
55 mins. past (Service 41)
57 mins. past (Service 1)
From The University to the Bus Station via Greaves Road buses will leave each hour at:
04 mins. past (Service 40 from University Gates, not Underpass or Campus)
18 mins. past (Service 1)
38 mins.past (Service 1)
41 mins.past (Service 41, but times are different after 1441
58 mins. past (Service 1)
Also service 42 at 0813, 1056, 1156, 1303, 1403, 1503, 1603, 1703, 1806, 1911, 1949 and 2038*
* Monday to Friday times. Saturday times are different.
Service 4X
This service, which runs from the Railway Station to the University via the city centre and Greaves Road at peak travel times and on Sunday evenings is suspended during the holidays.
"Term Time" service resumes on 13th January when new timetables will be introduced on services 1, 2 and 4. Details of these will be posted on our website as soon as we receive them.
