Southwell service changes

There have been some interesting changes to services to Southwell and Lowdham recently, starting with the NCT night bus N100 and then yourbus introduced and subsequently withdrew the controversial y100 service to Lowdham, Southwell and Newark. This post summarises the changes and in the next post we will have an update after using both the services.

The last seven buses on the 100 from Nottingham to Lowdham
and Southwell in the evenings are displayed above.

 The night bus was introduced in September 2010 after a Facebook campaign with over 8000 members and like other NCT night buses it runs on Friday night/Saturday morning and Saturday night/Sunday morning only. It's first departure was at midnight on the 10th of September 2010, followed by buses at 01:15 and 02:30. The same buses than ran again the next day (Saturday 11th of September night/Sunday 12th of September morning). This is different to the rest of NCT's night bus network, which departs at 01:15, 02:15 and 03:15 on Friday and Saturday nights.

The timetable shown here shows the last seven buses on the 100/N100 however the N100 departures only run on Friday and Saturday nights. The first N100 departure is at midnight, when a few of NCT's core GO2 high frequency services' final normal departures of the day are still leaving. However, this is understandable considering the 100 would have a gap of two hours and ten minutes between the last 100 and the first N100 if it wasn't for the midnight departure.

The newspaper cutting where yourbus speaks of
the service's imminent withdrawal.

yourbus introduced an every 20 minutes competing service, on Monday to Saturday daytimes and early evenings on the 31st of January 2011 with fares significantly lower than NCT's. NCT have a £5.50 adult return fare to Southwell while yourbus asks for only £3.00. But NCT has now matched yourbus's fares in a spring sale £3.00 return from any stop along the route, so yourbus has been forced to withdraw.



A map showing the 100 and N100 operated by NCT. The y100 follows the 100 route exactly.