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The eastern end of its former operating area, which included its few services into Portsmouth, were merged with the former Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Company to form the Provincial Bus Co. [25] When NBC was privatised in the mid-1980s, Provincial was the only company to be sold under an Employee Share Ownership Plan, becoming independent in May ...
Coastliner 700 is a bus service operated in West Sussex and south east Hampshire, England, by Stagecoach South between Brighton and Portsmouth via Hove, Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing, Littlehampton, Wick, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Havant, and Portsmouth with a daytime frequency of every 12 minutes on Mondays to Saturdays; the service runs every 20 minutes on Sundays. [1]
In July 2022, FirstGroup launched the "Southsea Coaster", an open top bus route which ran between The Hard Bus station and South Parade Pier in Portsmouth. This route ran until September 2022. [11] In November 2022 FirstGroup announced that its Southampton-based operations would be withdrawn, citing low patronage numbers and sustainability issues.
In September 2023, Stagecoach won contracts for 5 routes in Portsmouth previously run by First Hampshire & Dorset. [42] The company won further bus route contracts from January 2024, namely the D1, D2 and 27; with further enhancements to other bus routes, including the introduction of 24-hour operations on route 23. [43]
This runs mainly between Gosport bus station, Fareham Bus station and Portsmouth 'The Hard' Bus Station. First also run a route from Southampton to Portsmouth, via Fareham. They also run buses, branded 'Eclipse', that run along Henry Cort Busway. They further operate 'The Star', a service that runs along the route of the old Portsdown and ...
Portsmouth International Port is preparing for a record year, with 94 cruise ships to set sail from the harbour in 2025 – including a debut for Ritz-Carlton’s latest luxury yacht.. The port ...
A free service in Eastleigh to Chandlers Ford was the first route to be introduced which grew to seven bus routes that mainly served the local Asda and Tesco supermarkets in the region. [7] [8] Since then, nine more routes have commenced including an Open Top Bus "Sea the city" in Portsmouth in 2011. [9]
Opened on 4 August 1934 (), [1] [2] it gradually replaced the Portsmouth tramway network; the last trams ran on 10 November 1936. [1] By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Portsmouth system was a medium-sized one, with a total of nine routes, and a maximum fleet of 139 trolleybuses. [2]