Stirling council to cut bus services

Due to a change in the financial support provided by Stirling Council for local bus services, the
Council has authorised the termination of 12 local bus service contracts, including two School services, with effect from August.
The affected services, mainly rural, or early morning services are listed below.
Service S8: Ashfield - Dunblane HS (First Scotland East)
Services C10-C12: Balfron Area Sunday Services (First Scotland East)
Service C13: Balfron - Drymen - Balloch (First Scotland East)
Service C16: Throsk - Stirling - Cambusbarron (First Scotland East)
Service S16: Cambusbarron - St Mary’s PS (Bannockburn) (Hunter’s Executive Coaches)
Service C32: Cambusbarron - Stirling (First Scotland East)
Services C34/C35: Stirling - Fallin - Cowie - Forth Valley Royal Hospital (Hunter’s Executive Coaches)
Service C37: Cambusbarron - Raploch (First Scotland East)
Services C54: Cowie - University - Stirling (First Scotland East)
Service C57: Raploch - Stirling (First Scotland East)
Service C57: St Ninians - Stirling - Raploch (WAVE)
Service C58: Stirling - Dunblane (First Scotland East)
Service 59/C59: Callander - Stirling - Throsk (First Scotland East)
Service C60: Callander - Killin (Kingshouse Travel)

Skinflats residents want less buses

At the request of Falkirk Council, the community council and residents of Skinflats,  the Stagecoach operated Evening and Sunday services on Falkirk Council subsidised route 15 between Falkirk & Alloa  will be withdrawn from Skinflats from next Monday, April 29th.
The village will still be served by Stagecoach daytime Dunfermline-Falkirk Service, and the NHS funded H4 service.

Stirling misses out on Sleepercoach

Stagecoach have announced it is to launch a major network of overnight sleepercoach services from Scotland to London this summer using a £5m fleet of specially-designed vehicles.
The fleet of 10 new coaches, equipped with a clever interior layout that allows the leather seats to be converted into lie-flat beds, will operate overnight seven days a week.
The Megabus Gold Sleepercoach services will link London with Aberdeen, Aviemore, Cumbernauld Dundee, Dunfermline Edinburgh, Falkirk, Ferrytoll park and ride in Fife, Glasgow Inverness and Perth.
But despite two of the buses passing the city, Stirling is not included in the network. Instead Falkirk will be the start point for a third coach which will also serve Dunfermline & Edinburgh.
Customers will receive complimentary refreshments during their journey as well as a sleeper kit which includes an eye mask, a toothbrush and toothpaste. In addition, as a pilot, passengers will also be given a choice of a blanket or a onesie to sleep in during their journey.
Prices on the new services will range from £15 to £60.

First cuts in Forth Valley : April 15th

First will revised the  timetable and route of Service 38 (Stirling-Edinburgh). In Stirling, daytime services  (renumbered X38) will operate via the A9 Burghmuir Road serving Waitrose. Between Maybury and Haymarket all services will now operate a limited stopping pattern.
Meanwhile Service 60, (Clackmannan - Stirling - Falkirk) which compliments the 38 will continue to operate via St.Ninians Road, but some little used journeys are withdrawn, including the early morning service from Clackmannan, and the already sporadic evening service. Last bus from Clackmannan - Stirling will now be at  1830, and last bus from Stirling-Clackmannan is 2046.
Several Falkirk Council journeys see minor changes on the same day.