Due to Covid-19, operators may be operating reduced services or they may alter schedules at short notice. Please check with individual operators for specific service information. Their contact information can be found here.

Service 3

Operated by Arriva

Supported by Leicestershire County Council

Service Information

Passengers are advised, Arriva Service 3 is to be replaced by a revised service X6 which will continue to provide a connection between Three Pots and Hinckley Town Centre on off-peak journeys. These changes are designed to offer a more reliable and punctual service and improved journey times.

The revised timetable for Service X6 will be effective from Saturday 10th July 2021.

A Sunday service will also be introduced to this route.

Three Pots to Hinckley town centre journeys will operate via Wolvey Road, Herald Way, Rugby Road, Hawley Road, Station Road and The Crescent (and the same in reverse for return journeys).

Please note that the following stops will not be served by the new service: Beechwood Avenue, Sketchley Manor Lane, Greenmoor Road (all stops), Hawley Road (all stops), Welbeck Avenue.

Please also note, the bus stop on Three Pots Road will not allow for travel to Hinckley Town Centre. For journey’s to Hinckley Town Centre, passengers should wait on Wolvey Road (adjacent to Brockhust Avenue).

To view the timetable of the new X6 service, please visit: https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/find-a-service/x6-leicester-to-coventry-fast

If you have any questions or queries, please call our Customer Service Centre on 0116 305 0002 or email choosehowyoumove@leics.gov.uk

 

Service X26

Operated by Paul S Winson Coaches

Service Information

Passengers are advised that Paul S Winson will be revising the X26 service.

The below changes will take effect from June 21st 2021.

• 0650 and 0730 Carisbrooke Road to Loughborough and 0757 Baxter Gate to Carisbrooke Road journeys removed.

• Service X26 will no longer route via Halstead Road, Walton Way, Carisbrooke Road, West Cross Lane and Walton Way in Mountsorrel.

• Routing instead along Rothley Road and Mountsorrel Lane between Rothley and Mountsorrel.

If you have any questions or queries, please call our Customer Service Centre on

0116 305 0002 or email ChooseHowYouMove@leics.gov.uk.

 

Services 6/6A, 7/7A, 66 & 67

Hinckley local bus network

Operated by Arriva

 

Service Information

Passengers are advised that Arriva will be revising bus services in the Hinckley area. The changes have come about due to the expiry of funding supplied by the Regional Growth Fund which had been used to support public transport links to the MIRA technology park.

The below changes will take effect from January 4th 2021.

Current services

Arriva 66, Hinckley – Nuneaton

• This service will cease operation as of December 31^st 2020, and will be replaced by the new 6/6A service.

Arriva 67, Hinckley – Nuneaton

• This service will cease operation as of December 31^st 2020, and will be replaced by the new 7 service.

Arriva 7/7A, Burbage – Nuneaton

• The existing 7/7A services will be replaced by the new 7 service from January 4^th 2021.

 

New services

Arriva 6/6A, Burbage – Nuneaton

• This new service will be introduced from January 4^th 2021.
• The service will replace the 66 on an hourly frequency with service levels broadly similar to those provided by the 66.
• The service will call at Burbage, meaning the village will be served on a half hourly basis across services 6 and 7.
• The 6/6A will not serve MIRA, Henry Street and Dadlington. Leicestershire County Council are in the process of procuring a Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) to serve Dadlington.
• Hollycroft will still be served bar the section between Westray Drive and the Wykin Road roundabout.
• The 6A will serve Glenbarr Drive, Trent Road and Brodick Road in place of the 7A.

Arriva 7, Burbage – Nuneaton

• The 7 will run on an hourly frequency as opposed to the current 7/7A half hourly frequency.
• The new 7 service will not serve MIRA, Coventry Road, Brookdale, Glenbarr Drive, Trent Road, Brodick Road and Watling Street (A5).

 

For further details of these changes please see Arriva’s website.

If you have any questions or queries, please call our Customer Service Centre on

0116 305 0002 or email ChooseHowYouMove@leics.gov.uk.

 

Service Disruption

 

Service 127

Operated by Arriva

Service Disruption

Passengers are advised that Leicester Road and Loughborough Road in Mountsorrel will be closed from Friday 3^rd September until Thursday 9^th September 2021 to enable Leicestershire County Council to undertake carriageway re-patching works. The closure will be in place from 09:00 to 15:00 each day, excluding weekends.

 

During this time, Service 127 will operate to a diversion route via the A6 and will not be able to serve stops located between The Green and Granite Way in Mountsorrel. Journeys prior to 09:00 and after 15:00 will serve all stops as usual.

 

Passenger are advised to walk to the nearest available location to board Service 127 which is The Green and the stop pair north of the Granite Way roundabout in Mountsorrel.

 

Leicestershire County Council apologises for any inconvenience caused to passengers.

For further information please call the helpline on

0116 3050002.

 

Services 23 and 25

Provided by Leicestershire County Council

Operated by Centrebus 

Service Disruption

Passengers are advised that part of Boyer’s Orchard in Harby will be closed from Monday 19^th July 2021 to Friday 10^th September 2021 inclusive, to enable Water Homes Ltd to undertake utility installation works.

During this closure, Services 23 and 25 will operate to a diversion route via School Lane, and will not be able to serve bus stops on Burden Lane and Boyer’s Orchard.

The nearest alternative stops will be on Stathern Lane, near Boyer’s Orchard.

Leicestershire County Council apologises for any inconvenience caused to passengers.

For further information please call the

helpline on 0116 3050002.