Yellow Buses route 1b is a bus route in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, operating between Bournemouth Square and Christchurch.
History[]
In April 2015, this route ran between Poole and Christchurch, via Park Gates, Ashley Cross and Upper Parkstone west of Branksome, and Cranleigh Road between Fisherman's Walk and Tuckton.
In the 2017 network reorganisation, route 1b was grouped as a PROIRYLINE and renamed as P2, shortened its western terminus to Bournemouth, and modified to run through Holdenhurst Road in Springbourne instead of Christchurch Road. between Lansdowne and Boscombe.
When the numbered network was restored, the route was extended to run between Bournemouth and Somerford via Hunt Road near Somerford, replacing the section of route P3 in the 2017 network, which inherited 1c in the pre-2017 network.
In November 2019, route 21 was reintroduced and replaced the Hunt Road section on this route, with this route shortened to Christchurch.[1]
- 27 September 2020: This route was separated from route 1 with services extended to Somerford on weekends.
- 31 January 2021: As a result of adopting Saturday timetable Mon - Sat, this route is extended to Somerford every day.
- 30 May 2021: This route is further extended to Mudeford on weekends and cut back to Christchurch on weekdays.
- 28 November 2021: This route returned to combined headway with route 1, with western terminus moved to Bournemouth Triangle.
- 5 August 2022: Yellow Buses went out of business. morebus took over this route the next day with evening and Sunday service reinstantiated and western terminus moved back to Bournemouth Square.
Current route[]
This route serves the following areas in order:
- Bournemouth town centre (Bournemouth Square as terminus, Bournemouth Pier towards Bournemouth only)
- Lansdowne, Boscombe, Pokesdown, (Bath Road, Christchurch Road)
- Southbourne (Seabourne Road, Beaufort Road, Cranleigh Road)
- Tuckton, Christchurch (B3059)
Service level[]
- August 2022: every 30 minutes Mon - Sat daytime, every hour evenings and Sunday
- April 2022: every 30 minutes Mon - Fri daytime, every hour Sat daytime
- January 2022: every hour daytime
- November 2021: every 30 minutes Mon - Fri daytime, every hour Sat - Sun daytime
- May 2021: every 30 minutes Mon - Fri daytime (to Christchurch), every hour Sat - Sun daytime (to Mudeford)
- January 2021: every hour daytime (to Somerford)
- September 2020: every 30 minutes Mon - Fri daytime (to Christchurch), every hour Sat - Sun daytime (to Somerford)
- June 2020: every 30 minutes Mon - Fry daytime, every hour Sat - Sun daytime
- September 2019: every 30 minutes daytime, every hour Mon - Sat evenings, no service Sun evenings
Fare[]
This route is totally within zone A.
See also[]
- Yellow Buses route 1
- Yellow Buses route 1a
- morebus routes m2 - competing with this route between Bournemouth and Southbourne
- morebus routes X1/X2 - which also run between Bournemouth and Mudeford but with a more circuitous routing