All About The Lemons
Buses to Charfield present a problem. There is a South Gloucestershire network map on-line (above) but it is dated 2015 and at 10 years old is RUBBISH. Not one of the bus routes shown at Charfield is operating today.
Google Maps comes to our rescue with a service 60 and an X6. The latter is a school service but the former holds a little more promise for potential bus passengers. It is run by Stagecoach ...
There is no evidence in the timetable of a rail connection if you are travelling from a distance. The best offer fbb could find was a two bus journey from Bristol Parkway ...
... changing at Thornbury on to the above route 60. Just for the record, that is also the best offer travelling south from Gloucester by train and changing at Parkway. Whichever convoluted route you take, you would be dropped at the Railway Tavern, the hostelry that we met yesterday.
Here are the stops, a little further east along the Wootton Road. (That's Wootton-under-Edge).
And here is A stop ...
... which looks as if it offers a timetable frame but no map and no route number(s) on the "flag".
Don't bother to look for a Stagecoach map on-ĺine, by the way, because there isn't one. You can see the route 60 as it leaves Dursley, but nowhere else.
But what is this? Another map appears on-line, a map which shows Charfield, top upper left.
There is even a picture of a bus showing Y8 ...
... and it is operated by The Big Lemon. [pause for readers to cheer uproariously as, at long last, fbb has mentioned lemons.]
The Y8 runs from Hawkesbury Upton via Yate and Wickwar to Charfield.
At least it did until earlier this year.
There was a vociferous campaign which resulted in re-instatement due from 1st September.
As this talks about 15 journeys Monday to Friday and 12 on a Saturday, fbb suspects that, either the journo has got it all wrong or it isn't actually about the Y8 at all.
One of the articles indexed as being about the Y8 extols the virtue of the replacement service.
Whatever, the four return journeys will be coming back. Sadly they do not offer much opportunity to get to Charfield via an easy train connection as the Y8 doesn't make it to Yate station.
But it is not long to wait for the new Charfield station. (Stop sniggering at the back of the class!)
The weird news is that the Y8 features in a web site entirely in French.
Quite what it is doing there is a mystery. What is even more of a mystery is that the site thinks that the Y8 serves ...
... Guildford!
For the record, Guildford is only 97.4 miles from Yate and is most definitely NOT served by service Y8
Isn't the internet truly wonderful?
Then again the press is proud to announce that the Y8 will be extended to Wootton-under-Edge (east of Charfield) from the end of August.
This will, in part, replace the 84/85 service which has also been withdrawn.
There is no sign of this happening; indeed the Council has said that the 84/85 will definitely NOT return in any form.
Oh no it won't.
No Orange To Join The Lemons
This item appeared on-line early in 2025.
That hasn't happened either!
ISN'T PUBLIC TRANSPORT
WONDERFUL?
Please note:
This blog had been created successfully but very slowly using the new technology entirely. Things will get better!
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