First Bus reveals Christmas and New Year timetable changes and cancellations in Bristol

13/12/2023

First Bus has revealed its updated timetable for Bristol buses over the festive period, with revised schedules in place from Christmas Eve until New Year’s Day. There will be no services on Christmas Day and only Airport Flyovers, on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Throughout the period First in the West of England will be running a reduced timetable.

But some routes will offer additional journeys on certain days during the festive period. Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday this year so buses will be operating according to Sunday timetables, but with an early finish that will see last journeys operate from 8pm. New Year’s Eve, will also operate according to a Sunday schedule.

The exception will be the 39 service from Bristol to Bath [1] Bus Station via Temple Meads and Brislington [2] which will operate additional late night journeys.

The exact timings for individual bus routes will vary slightly so it will be worth checking First’s website for Christmas timetables [5] . Bristol buses 1, 2,3,4,5,7 and 74 will offer extra journeys from Wednesday, December 27 to Friday, December 29 and the 39 service will offer four late evening journeys on Christmas Eve ending at 2.05am towards Bristol and 3.05am towards Bath.

All bus services will resume to usual timetables on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Below is a summary of changes to bus services between Christmas Eve (Sunday, December 24) and New Year’s Day (Monday, January 1).

Christmas Eve (December 24) – Services will run to the Sunday timetable with an early finish, with last journeys operating around 2000. Service A1 and service A3 will operate their normal Sunday timetables.

See special timetables below for details of the last bus times on services that will finish earlier than usual.
Christmas Day (December 25) – No service.
Boxing Day (December 26) – No service except service A1 operating the normal Monday-Friday timetable and service A3 operating the normal Sunday timetable.
December 27-29 – Service A1 will be operating to the normal Monday-Friday timetable. Most other services will run to Saturday timetables. Some services will operate additional early morning journeys ahead of the start of the usual Saturday timetable.

See the special timetables below for services with additional journeys.
Saturday, December 30 – Normal Saturday timetables.
New Year’s Eve (December 31) – Normal Sunday timetables.

On service 39, there will be additional late night journeys operated.

See the special timetable below.
New Year’s Day (January 1) – No service except service A1 operating the normal Monday-Friday timetable and service A3 operating the normal Sunday timetable.
Tuesday, January 2 – Normal services will resume.

Further information on First bus routes can be found here [6] .

References

^ Bath (www.bristolpost.co.uk)
^ Brislington (www.bristolpost.co.uk)
^ Bristol family create Grinch-themed Christmas house and dress up as favourite characters (www.bristolpost.co.uk)
^ List of UK areas that could see snowfall on Christmas Day (www.bristolpost.co.uk)
^ Christmas timetables (www.firstbus.co.uk)
^ here (www.firstbus.co.uk)