Christmas and New Year services

There will be no First Bus services across the entire area on Christmas Day, and other services will be affected from Christmas Eve through to Tuesday 2nd January. Customers are advised to visit the First Bus website for the latest information on festive timetables.

First West of England, Cymru and Worcester’s Managing Director Doug Claringbold said: “We recognise that customers want transport during the festive period, but it’s also important that we give our hard-working drivers some well-earned down time to celebrate with their family and friends.

“I’d like to thank all our customers who have travelled with us during the past year and wish you, and our future customers, a merry Christmas and a great new year, and we look forward to transporting you across our region in 2024 and beyond.”

A summary of changes to First West of England, First Cymru and First Worcester's timetables over the festive period are below: 

Cymru. View individual timetables on the First Cymru website.

• Christmas Eve (24th) - Normal Sunday timetables but some services will finish earlier than usual.
• Christmas Day (25th) - No service.
• Boxing Day (26th) - No service.
• 27th – 29th Dec - Saturday timetables on all services except for services 4, 29 and 166. These three services will operate their Mon-Fri school holiday timetables.
• 30th Dec - Normal Saturday timetables.
• New Year’s Eve (31st) - Normal Sunday timetables but some services will finish earlier than usual.
• New Year’s Day (1st) - No service.
• 2nd Jan - Normal school holiday services will resume.

West of England (Bristol, Bath, Weston-super-Mare and Wells/Mendips). View individual timetables on the First West of England website.

• Christmas Eve (24th) - 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 (25th) - No service.
• Boxing Day (26th) - No service except service A1 operating the normal Monday-Friday timetable and service A3 operating the normal Sunday timetable.
• 27th – 29th Dec - 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.
• 30th Dec - Normal Saturday timetables.
• New Year’s Eve (31st) - Normal Sunday timetables. On service 39, there will be additional late night journeys operated. See the special timetable below.
• New Year’s Day (1st) - No service except service A1 operating the normal Monday-Friday timetable and service A3 operating the normal Sunday timetable.
• 2nd Jan - Normal services will resume.

 Worcester. View individual timetables on the First Worcester website.

• Christmas Eve (24th) - Normal Sunday timetables.
• Christmas Day (25th) - No service.
• Boxing Day (26th) - No service.
• 27th – 29th Dec - Saturday service on routes 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44, 45, 144, X50.
  Monday to Friday service on routes 153, 405, 417, 420, 482, 600, 672, 673, 675 & 676.
• 30th Dec - Normal Saturday timetables
• New Year’s Eve (31st) - Normal Sunday timetables.
• New Year’s Day (1st) - No service.
• 2nd Jan - Normal services will resume.