Timetable Changes from 1st September 2024

4 months ago Tue 6th Aug 2024

From 1st September 2024, we’ll be revising some of our services.

We’ve listened to your feedback and have introduced new journeys and amened the times of others to improve connections. Many of the new journeys are funded through the South East Wales Bus Funding Group.

Some of the key features of the service revisions include:

Extra evening buses to Gaer (2), Royal Oak (8A) and St Julians (26A),
Extra morning buses to St Julians (26A/C)
Extra buses in both directions between Cwmbran, Pontypool, Usk and Chepstow (63)
Extra buses on Saturday daytime for Brynglas (13), Allt-yr-yn (14), Rhiwderin (37) and Pillgwenlly (40/41)
Extra buses on Monday to Saturday for Bulwark and Thornwell (C1)
Extra buses on Sundays to Gaer (2) and St Julians (26A)
Extra buses on Sunday between Newport, Underwood, Magor, Caldicot and Chepstow (74)
New Sunday buses to Langstone, Parc Seymour and Caerwent (73)
Improved connections in Monmouth and Chepstow

Please see below for a detailed outline of changes - click on the route name for a link to the timetables. The live timetable will be available soon.

Route		Summary of Changes
1	Newport - Rogerstone	No changes
2/A/C	Newport - Gaer	Mondays to Saturdays: New evening journeys. Buses depart the city centre at 17:25, 19:00 & 21:00. The 1755 journey is revised to operate 5 minutes later at 18:00. Sunday: Buses will operate hourly between 08:45 and 17:45.
5	Newport - Gwent Europark	Monday to Saturday: No change to timetable however most journeys will extend to/from Magor (Redwick Road). New Sunday journeys from Newport at 0505, 1302, 2105 and from Gwent Europark at 0616,1416, 2216 (these journeys start from Magor at 0605. 1405. 2205).
6/7	Newport – Ringland	No changes
8A/C	Newport - Ringland	Monday to Saturday: There will be an additional 8A journey from the city centre at 20:15. Monday to Friday: The 19:13 journey from the city centre will operate 17 minutes later at 19:30 Saturday: The 18:13 & 19:10 journeys will operate at 18:15 & 19:15 respectively. Sunday: See route 5 and 73 for new Sunday journeys along Chepstow Road as far as the Royal Oak.
9A/C	Newport – Newport Retail Park	Monday to Saturday: Following your feedback, the 19:53 journey from the city will operate at to 20:00 to provide a connection with the 19:55 of route 29A.
12	Newport – Sainsbury’s	No changes
13	Newport – Brynglas	Monday to Friday: There will be an additional journey from the city centre at 17:55. (18:04 from Brynglas) Saturdays: Buses will operate hourly between 08:35 to 17:25
14	Newport – Allt-yr-yn	Monday to Friday: There will be a new journey starting at 09:00 from Harlequin Drive. This follows requests for a bus to arrive in the city centre before 10:00. This journey will not serve Sorrel Drive. Saturdays: There will be an additional journey from the city centre at 14:35
16A/C	Newport – Bettws	New extra Sunday journeys on route 16C. From the city centre at 1215, 1515, 2030 & 2300. From Bettws at 0446, 1230, 1530, 2044, 2323.
18	Newport - Malpas	No changes
19	Newport – Malpas	Minor timetable changes on all days to improve reliability.
20/21	Newport – Newport Retail Park	No changes
26A/C	Newport – St. Julians	Monday to Friday: There will be additional 26A journeys from the city centre at 17:45 & 20:20 and from St Julians at 06:12, 18:00, 20:34 Saturday: There will be additional journeys from the city centre at 07:10 (26C), 18:15 (26C) & 20:20 (26A) and from St Julians at 07:25 (26C),18:26 (26C), 20:34 (26A) Sunday: Buses will operate hourly between 08:45 & 17:45. Therefore the current 0855 journey will be 10 minutes earlier.
27	Newport – Caerleon	No changes
29/29A	Newport – Cwmbran	No changes
30	Newport – Cardiff	All journeys by both Newport Bus and Cardiff Bus will serve the new Cardiff Transport Interchange (Stand 14). Buses will continue to call at all the stops currently used around the city centre too.
31A/C	Newport – Marshfield	Monday to Friday: Minor timetable changes to the 07:15 journey after it serves Ysgol Gwent Is Coed at 08:07. On School holidays, the 14:41 journey from Newport will operate 7 minutes later up-to Morgan Way then continue as the normal timetable.
35/36	Newport – Duffryn	No changes
37	Newport -Rhiwderin	Monday to Friday: Journeys from the city centre at 16:16 & 17:30 will operate later at 16:20 & 17:35 respectively. From Rhiwderin (Cwm Cwddy Drive) at 1654 & 1806. Saturday: Buses will operate hourly between 08:25 & 16:25
40/41	Newport – Pillgwenlly	Monday to Friday: No changes Saturday: Buses will operate hourly between 08:45 & 16:45. As a result, some journeys that are currently route 40 will now be route 41 and vice-versa.
42/43	Newport – Newport Retail Park	Following your feedback, the 05:47 journey from depot (05:58 from Newport Retail Park) will operate 7 minutes earlier to provide a connection with route 29 at Clarence Place.
60/X60	Newport – Monmouth	Monday to Friday. Route X60 journeys from Newport at 06:00 & 06:40 will operate 5 minutes earlier at 05:55 and 06:35 respectively. Saturdays: Route X60 journeys from Newport at 06:10 & 07:10 will operate 5 minutes earlier at 06:05 and 07:05 respectively. On School Holidays, the 15:06 from Monmouth will operate at 15:15
63	Cwmbran – Chepstow	From Chepstow, the 08:35 journey will be replaced with a journey at 08:05 to allow for a convenient arrival at Coleg Gwent at 08:48. The 11:42 journey will be replaced with a two new journeys: 10:40 to Cwmbran & 13:20 to Pontypool. The afternoon journey serving Chepstow Comprehensive School will start at Chepstow Bus Station then serve the school. Therefore, this journey will not serve Chepstow Community Hospital The 10:20 & 13:20 journeys from Cwmbran will be replaced with journeys at 09:22 & 12:00. There will a new journey at 14:20 from Pontypool to Chepstow.
65	Chepstow - Monmouth	The 07:00 journey from Chepstow and the 17:30 journey from Monmouth currently operated Monmouthshire Council will be provided by Newport Bus. Additionally, following requests, the 07:00 journey from Chepstow will operate 25 minutes earlier at 06:35 to provide a connection at Monmouth with route 34 to Ross-on-Wye.
68	Abergavenny – Monmouth	Monday to Friday: The 13:05 & 14:31 journeys from Abergavenny will operate at 13:09 & 14:35 respectively. The 12:21, 13:50, & 17:06 journeys from Monmouth will operate at 12:25, 13:54, 17:10 respectively. Monday to Saturday: The 17:46 journey from Abergavenny will operate 4 minutes later at 17:50.
69	Chepstow - Monmouth	Monday to Friday: The 07:45 journey from Monmouth will operate 5 minutes earlier at 07:40 to improve reliability. The 18:30 journey from Monmouth will operate 5 minutes later at 18:35 to improve connections with routes 60 & 68 arriving in Monmouth. Saturday and Sunday: No changes
72	Chepstow – Lydney	No changes
73	Newport – Chepstow	Monday to Friday: There will be a new journey from Newport at 05:55 Saturday: The 07:56 journey from Chepstow will operate earlier at 07:37 New Sunday Service providing 5 journeys in each direction. Most journeys arrive and depart Chepstow at times to make convenient connections with routes 69. 74 & T7.
74/X74	Newport – Chepstow	Monday to Saturday: There will be a few minor changes to the times of evening journey on route 74, Sundays: Service increased to hourly for most of the day.
74A/C	Newport – Underwood	Monday to Friday: The 08:53 journey from Newport will operate earlier at 08:30 to provide additional capacity for customers travelling between the city centre and Coleg Gwent. Therefore the 09:33 journey from Underwood operate earlier at 09:15. Saturdays: No changes Sundays: Underwood is served by route 74 on Sundays which will operate up-to hourly for most of the day (see route 74)
75	Magor - Sudbrook	No changes
207	Thornbury – Newtown	No changes
711	The Pludds - Buckshaft	No changes
A3	Raglan – Brynmawr	Revised timetable to improve reliability and due to a change of school times at King Henry VIII 3-19 School. Please check the timetable as some journeys have been amended by between 2 to 15 minutes.
C1	Chepstow – Thornwell	Monday to Friday: The 07:21 will operate 10 minutes earlier to provide a connection with route 73. Between 08:35 & 16:05 buses will operate every 30 minutes. Journeys at 16:35, 17:35 & 18:05 revised to 16:40, 17:40 & 18:11 to provide better connections with other services arriving at Chepstow Saturday: Buses will operate hourly between 08:35 & 17:35 then 18:11.
C2	Chepstow - St. Kingsmark	In St Kingsmark, buses will operate a clockwise loop of Kingsmark Lane, St Kingsmark Avenue, Huntfield Road, and Kingsmark Lane. Therefore, the bus will stop on the opposite side of the road than it currently does. Most journeys operate 7 minutes earlier.
C3	Chepstow – Garden City	Between Beaufort Square and Tesco, all journeys will operate via Bridge Street, St Ann Street, Lower Church Street and Church Street to provide a convenient link to Chepstow Castle, Museum and the lower end of town. The timetable is completely revised on all days.
C4	Chepstow – Beachley	No changes
R1	Newport – Risca	No changes
R2	Ynsy-ddu - Risca	No changes
T7	Chepstow – Bristol	No changes
X30	Newport – Cardiff	Monday to Friday: Following your feedback, the 17:00 journey from Newport will operate 10 minutes later at 17:10. The 17:45 journey from Cardiff will operate 10 minutes later at 17:55. Saturdays: No changes In Cardiff city centre, this service will continue to stop at Greyfriars Road and will not serve the Cardiff Bus Interchange

New Services

Monmouth – Hereford

New service from Monmouth – Hereford beginning on 1st September 2024.

School Services

B1	Mount Pleasant - Bassaleg School	No changes
B2	Afon Village - Bassaleg School	No changes
JF1	Bus Station – The John Frost School	Minor timing changes by up-to 3 minutes to improve reliability.
JF2	Bus Station – The John Frost School	Minor timing changes by up-to 4 minutes to improve reliability.
JF3	Fields Park – The John Frost School	Minor timing changes by up-to 4 minutes to improve reliability.
JF4	Risca Road – The John Frost School	Minor timing changes by up-to 4 minutes to improve reliability
SJ1	Ringland – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ2	Alway – St. Joseph’s RC High School	This route will no longer serve Langland Way or Lysaghts Village. See route SJ14 as an alternative. Minor timing changes by up-to 4 minutes to improve reliability
SJ3	Corporation Road – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ4	Barnardtown – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ5	Nash Road – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ6	Barrack Hill – St. Joseph’s RC High School	Minor timing changes by up-to 4 minutes to improve reliability.
SJ7	Western Avenue – St. Joseph’s RC High School	Minor timing changes by up-to 3 minutes to improve reliability.
SJ8	Fields Park – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ9	Malpas – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ10	Bettws – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ11	Bus Station – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
SJ13	Bus Station – St. Joseph’s RC High School	Minor timing changes by up-to 3 minutes to improve reliability.
SJ14	Goldcliff – St. Joseph’s RC High School	The morning journey will start at Pye Corner Farm (rather than Halo Foods) and operate the current route via Broadstreet Common, Whitson and Goldcliff but will no longer serve West Nash and Wetlands. From Nash Corner, the route is via Nash Road, Lliswerry High School, Spytty Road, Langland Way, Corporation Road (for Lysaght Village) and Docks Way to St. Joseph’s RC High School. The afternoon journey will operate via Docks Way, Corporation Road (for Lysaght Village), Spytty Road, Lliswerry High School, Nash Road, Broadstreet Common, Whitson, Goldcliff and Nash Corner ending at Pye Corner Farm. Minor timing changes by up-to 10 minutes to improve reliability.
SJ15	Afon Village – St. Joseph’s RC High School	No changes
YGI1	Lyceum Tavern – Ysgol Gwent Is Coed	No changes
YGI2	Bus Station – Ysgol Gwent Is Coed	Minor timing changes by up-to 5 minutes to improve reliability.
YGI3	Caerleon Road – Ysgol Gwent Is Coed	No changes