Bus service changes and consultations

Lancaster Services

Service 1/1A Heysham – Morecambe – Lancaster – University

From 29 September 2025 Stagecoach will revise the route and timetable, to operate the University Term timetable and route ready for the University Welcome week.

Service 18 Lancaster East Circular

From 26 October 2025 Lonsdale Buses will take over the operation of the Monday to Saturday journeys from Stagecoach on behalf of Lancashire County Council. Stagecoach will continue to operate the Sunday & Bank Holiday journeys.

There will be no changes to the route or timetable, just a change of service provider.

Service 88 Lancaster – Cockerham – Garstang – Pilling – Knott End

Service 89 Lancaster – Cockerham – Pilling – Knott End

From 26 October 2025 Stagecoach will take over the operation of these services from Lonsdale Buses on behalf of Lancashire County Council.

There will be a minor route adjustment in Garstang Town Centre on Service 88 running an anti-clockwise loop around Windsor Road, Moss Lane and Park Hill Road towards both Knott End and Lancaster to maintain common stops for customers.

There will be no changes to the timetable, just a change of service provider.

Service 100 Morecambe – Lancaster – University

From 29 September 2025 Stagecoach will revise the route and timetable, to operate the University Term timetable and route ready for the University Welcome week.

Service 552 Carnforth – Warton – Silverdale – Arnside – Milnthorpe – Kendal

From 6 October 2025 Lonsdale Coaches, in partnership with Lancashire County Council and Westmorland & Furness Council, will revise the timetable, adjusting the 0905 journey from Carnforth to Kendal to depart at 0855 and operate up to 10 minutes earlier throughout.

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Services

Service 21 Cleveleys – Blackpool – St.Annes

From 1 September 2025 Transpora will revise the timetable, adjusting general journey times to improve service reliability.

Preston, South Ribble and Chorley Services

Service P1 Preston – Walton-le-Dale Park and Ride

From 29 September 2025 Lancashire County Council will revise the route and stopping places within Preston City Centre to reinstate the Jacson Street Bus Stop, following the reopening of the Harris Museum, and Bus Stop J on Church Street will no longer be served. There are no changes to the timetable.

Lancaster Services

Service 5 Overton – Heysham – Morecambe – Carnforth

From 31 August 2025, Stagecoach will revise the timetable, introducing timing adjustments at around school times to improve overall service reliability.

Service 40/41/40C Lancaster – Garstang – Preston

From 31 August 2025, Stagecoach will revise the timetable, introducing timing adjustments at AM & PM peak periods to fit in with revised start/end times at Preston College, and several other timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Services

Service 21 Cleveleys – Blackpool – St.Annes

From 1 September 2025 Transpora will revise the timetable, adjusting general journey times.

Blackpool Transport Network Revisions

From 31 August 2025, Blackpool Transport will make the following revisions to their bus services:

Service 1 Fleetwood – Cleveleys – Blackpool

The timetable will be revised, reducing running time for the winter period and maintaining the general frequency every 30 minutes.

Service 2 Cala Gran – Cleveleys – Blackpool – Zoo

The timetable will be revised, adjusting the times by approximately 20 minutes to provide improved service along Blackpool Promenade in partnership with Service 1.

Service 3a Cleveleys Park – Cleveleys – Blackpool – Mereside

The timetable will be revised, adjusting the times in the AM & PM on schooldays.

Service 5  Halfway House – Blackpool – Victoria Hospital – Poulton – Cleveleys

The route and timetable will be revised, extending the service from Poulton through to Cleveleys via Thornton.  Certain AM & PM peak journeys will serve Blackpool & Fylde College instead of Thornton.

This extension will operate every 30 minutes Monday to Friday daytime and hourly on Saturday.

Service 5a Halfway House – Blackpool – Victoria Hospital – Staining

In partnership with Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Council utilising funding from HM Government through the Bus Service Improvement Plan, the route and timetable will be revised, with the introduction of an hourly Sunday daytime extension to Staining. The route will be adjusted to additionally serve Midgeland Road from Halfway House via Progress Way.

Service 5c Blackpool – Victoria Hospital – Poulton – Knott End

The route and timetable will be revised, in partnership with Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Council utilising funding from HM Government through the Bus Service Improvement Plan, increasing frequency to every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime and hourly evenings and Sundays. The route in Blackpool Town Centre will be revised to serve St John’s Square in both directions.

Service 6  Grange Park – Blackpool – Mereside – (Peel Park)

The route and timetable will be revised, increasing the frequency of the Monday to Saturday evening and Sunday service to every 30 minutes. 

The extension journeys to Peel Park will be reduced and Whitehills will be withdrawn completely and replaced by the extension to Service 18.

Service 7 Cleveleys – Blackpool

The timetable will be revised, increasing the Monday to Friday daytime frequency to operate up to every 20 minutes. The service will operate up to every 30 minutes at weekends.

Service 7a Cleveleys – Bispham – Blackpool

The timetable will be revised, introducing additional running time across the route to improve overall service reliability.

Service 11 Lytham St.Annes – Blackpool

The timetable will be revised, introducing timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 11a Lytham St.Annes – Blackpool

The timetable will be revised, introducing minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 14 Fleetwood – Blackpool

The timetable will be revised, introducing minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability. An additional later Monday to Saturday evening journey will be introduced from Blackpool to Fleetwood departing at 2340.

Service 18 Blackpool – South Shore - Mereside – Victoria Hospital

The route and timetable will be revised, extending the service to serve Whitehills to replace Service 6.

Preston, South Ribble and Chorley Services

Stagecoach network revisions

From 31 August 2025, Stagecoach will make the following revisions to their bus services:

Service 1 Preston – Ribbleton – Grimsargh – Longridge

Service 1A Preston – Ribbleton – Red Scar

The timetable will be revised, introducing several minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability. There will an additional PM school bus from Longridge High School and one AM and PM Service 1 journey (numbered 1C) will be extended to serve Preston College.

Service X2 Preston – Southport – Liverpool

The timetable will be revised, increasing the service to operate up to every 30 minutes throughout the whole route, and other minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 3 Preston – Penwortham – Kingsfold

The timetable will be revised, introducing minor adjustments to some evening timings to improve overall service reliability.

Service 9 Preston – Moor Nook

The timetable will be revised, introducing several minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 59 Preston – Blackburn – Royal Blackburn Hospital – Accrington

The timetable will be revised, introducing timing adjustments at AM & PM peak periods to fit in with revised start/end times at Preston College and Cardinal Newman College, and several other timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 61 Preston – Kirkham – Blackpool

The route and timetable will be revised, adjusting the route in the Ashton area of Preston to operate via Tulketh Road (outbound) or Egerton Road (inbound) instead of Service 68.

There will introducing timing adjustments at AM & PM peak periods to fit in with revised start/end times at Preston College and Cardinal Newman College, and several other timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 68 Preston – Lytham St.Annes – Blackpool

The route and timetable will be revised, adjusting the route in the Ashton area of Preston to operate via Tulketh Brown & Lane Ends instead of Service 61.

There will introducing timing adjustments at AM & PM peak periods to fit in with revised start/end times at Preston College and Cardinal Newman College, and several other timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 111 Preston – Leyland – Moss Side

The timetable will be revised, introducing timing adjustments at AM & PM peak periods to fit in with revised start/end times at Preston College, and several other timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

Service 125 Royal Preston Hospital – Preston – Chorley – Bolton

The timetable will be revised, introducing several minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

West Lancs Services

Service 311 Ormskirk – Skelmersdale – Wrightington – Standish – Chorley

From 31 August 2025 Lancashire County Council, utilising funding from HM Government through our Bus Service Improvement Plan, will revise the route and timetable, extending the service from Wrightington Hospital to create a new cross borough public transport link between Ormskirk, Skelmersdale and Chorley.

Following requests from local communities, the route of Service 311 will be extended to serve the Coppull Moor area of Chorley and create new direct links to Ormskirk and Wrightington Hospitals, and surrounding areas to both Standish and Chorley. The diversion in Hall Green via the Deardon Way/Mayfield Road area will now be served by Service 312.

This service will operate between Ormskirk and Chorley via Ormskirk Hospital, Lathom, Ashurst, Birch Green, Skelmersdale, Tanhouse, Hall Green, Appley Bridge, Wrightington Hospital, Shevington Moor, Standish and Coppull Moor.

The service will operate generally every hour during Monday to Saturday daytime and combine with Service 312 to operate every half hour between Ashurst, Skelmersdale and Up Holland.

Preston Bus will continue to operate this service on behalf of Lancashire County Council.

Service 312 Ormskirk – Burscough – Skelmersdale – Rainford

From 31 August 2025 Lancashire County Council will revise the route and timetable, adjusting the route in Burscough between the town centre and Ringtail Retail Park to serve the new housing off Chancel Way.

This service will operate between Ormskirk and Rainford via Burscough, Newburgh, Parbold, Ashurst, Birch Green, Skelmersdale, Digmoor, Hall Green, Up Holland and Crawford.

The route deviation in Hall Green via the Deardon Way/Mayfield Road area will be revised to only operate between 0930 & 1530 Monday to Friday, due to difficulties accessing the area.

The service will operate generally every hour during Monday to Saturday daytime and combine with Service 311 to operate every half hour between Ashurst, Skelmersdale and Up Holland.

Preston Bus will continue to operate this service on behalf of Lancashire County Council.

The Monday to Saturday evening and Sunday daytime Service 312 journeys between Skelmersdale and Ashurst, operated by Arriva in partnership with the county council, will be unaffected.

Service 375/385 Southport – Ormskirk – Skelmersdale – Wigan

From 31 August 2025 Arriva will revise the timetable, increasing the frequency of Service 375 to provide a combined headway in both directions, with Service 385, of up to every 20 minutes between the key towns on the route.

Blackburn, Hyndburn, Burnley & Rossendale Services

Service 481 Blackburn – Haslingden – Rawtenstall – Bury

Service 483 Burnley – Water – Rawtenstall – Bury

Service X41 Accrington – Haslingden – Ramsbottom – Manchester

Service X43 Burnley – Rawtenstall – Manchester

From 31 August 2025 Transdev will revise the timetables of these services, introducing several minor timing adjustments to improve overall service reliability.

On bank holidays, most bus service providers generally operate a 'Sunday' service on their routes.

Lancashire County Council's supported bus services will operate a Sunday service on the following Bank Holiday dates:

• 18 April – Good Friday
• 21 April – Easter Monday
• 5 May – May Bank Holiday
• 26 May – Spring Bank Holiday
• 25 August - Summer Bank Holiday

For full details, please contact the bus operator concerned.

Before travelling, please check your bus operator's website for full details.  Bus operator details.