Eleven Preston Bus services are seeing timetable changes from September.

Many bus routes in the city are currently operating to different timings due to the summer period and school holidays and the bus operator has confirmed from 4 September a raft of services will see revisions to services.

The changes are being made to improve punctuality of services, there’s increase to frequency due to increases in passenger numbers and a number of services return to their normal journey times following the summer period.

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Preston Bus has also dropped the 437 service, which went from Preston Bus Station to Myerscough College.

Here’s the changes being made:

8 – Preston – Moor Nook – services are still going every 15minutes between Monday and Saturday but will take slightly longer.

19 – Preston – Royal Preston Hospital (via Deepdale) – two extra services at 7.50pm and 8.50pm every weekday have been added following customer feedback

23 – Preston – Royal Preston Hospital (via Plungington) – minor changes to timetable to improve punctuality

35 – Preston – Ingol (via Ashton) – increase in daytime frequency Monday to Saturday to run every 12 minutes

48 – Preston – Larches (via Ribbleton, Fulwood, Ingol, Ashton) – will run only to Lea (not via the Larches loop) and towards Preston to operate the opposite route via Tanterton as an outbound jounrye. Timetable revised to improve punctuality.

76/78 – Lytham to St Annes (via Great Eccleston) – the 78 is extending its journeys from 6.43pm and 6.38pm Monday to Friday from Great Eccleston through to St Annes (currently terminates at Lytham).

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114 – Chorley to Whittle-le-Woods (via Leyland) – the service will no longer operate between Chorley interchange and Eaves Lane. Instead the Blackburn Bus Company operated 2 will serve this section of the route.

663 – Holme Slack to Fulwood Academy – minor changes made to the timings of morning journeys

664 – New Hall Lane to Fulwood Academy – minor changes made to the timings of morning journeys

433 – Preston Railway Station to Myerscough College – alterations made to the timetable

All new timetables can be seen on the Preston Bus website.

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