The Hull Bus Alliance has announced a number of changes to bus services, as of Monday 1 September 2025, designed to improve punctuality and reliability while introducing new routes that make bus travel a more accessible and attractive option for residents across the city.
The service enhancements form part of the bus service improvement plan (BSIP) for 2025/2026 and are funded by the Department for Transport.
The exciting changes include a dedicated service to Clough Road and Sutton Fields, providing a new option for many people commuting to work, better connections to medical facilities and retail, such as Kingswood Medical Centre, Castle Hill Hospital, North Point Shopping Centre, and Kingswood Retail Park.
Councillor Mark Ieronimo, cabinet portfolio holder for transportation and infrastructure at Hull City Council, said: “Our residents often tell us that one of the main barriers stopping them choosing to travel by bus are access to services, punctuality and reliability.
“The Hull Bus Alliance continues to make great strides in these areas and is constantly striving to deliver the type of bus services that our communities, and visitors to the city, need and expect.
“The council welcomes these service changes, as they will help deliver on several objectives within our community plan, including developing safe and welcoming neighbourhoods, a healthier and fairer Hull and supporting our city’s response to the climate emergency.”
A summary of the changes that will be enacted on Stagecoach East Midlands routes is, as follows:
- Services 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 34, 255 and 256 – slightly revised timetables to improve punctuality.
- Service 5 – revised timetable to include outbound timing on Beverley Road (Tesco) moved to Hall Road, before Tesco, to remove the potential blockage on Beverley High Road.
- Service 6 – revised route and timetable changes. The route in Kingswood will now serve Kingsbury Way and Pennine Way in both directions.
- Service 7/7C – new Service 7C to serve Clough Road and Sutton Fields with half the frequency, daily, of a Service 7 to keep the 15-minute frequency on Sutton Park and keep the link with the Service 8.
- Service 8/8C – revised timetable to reflect the connections with Service 7/7C for Clough Road. The revised timetable will provide better coordination with Service 11/111.
- Service 11/111/110 – revised route and timetable. The service is revised to operate only one loop around Castle Hill Hospital. Barnes Way and Runnymede Way will be served in preference to Kingswood Leisure Park on both the 11 and 111.
- Service 11A – Service 80 is renumbered Service 11A.
- Service 12/12A – revised route and timetable to Kingswood. Service 12 will be extended from North Point Shopping Centre to Kingswood Medical Centre, via Bude Road, with half the service operating via Wawne Road and Pioneer Way to Kingswood Medical Centre providing a loop service connecting both services to North Point Shopping Centre, Kingswood Retail Park, Kingswood Medical Centre and Pioneer Way.
- Service 15 – revised route and timetable extending the route to serve Hopewell Road.
- Service 33 – revised route and timetable with extended peak journeys into Kingswood. Service 33 will extend to serve Diversity Drive, Richmond Way, the medical centre, Runnymede Way, Kingswood Retail Park and Bodmin Road. The route will be unchanged between North Point Shopping Centre and Hull Paragon Interchange. Off-peak journeys will be numbered 33C and will continue to terminate at North Point.
- Services 81-85, MC1-MC2 – these services will be available to Wilberforce College and Marvel College students only.
- Service 677 – this service will no longer run because of changing travel demands.
Matt Cranwell, managing director of Stagecoach East Midlands, said: “The successful partnership between Stagecoach, East Yorkshire Buses, and Hull City Council continues to develop and improve the bus network across the city to ensure local people can reach employment, education, healthcare, and retail services.
“The new links to Kingswood, Sutton Fields and Clough Road will create new travel opportunities, building on the better frequencies and new connections to Beverley and Castle Hill Hospital introduced last year.
“All this work is increasing passenger numbers, enhancing the local economy, reducing congestion, and helping to make Hull a vibrant, well connected, great place to live, learn, visit, and work.”
A summary of the changes that will be enacted on East Yorkshire routes are, as follows:
- Service 41/43 – slightly revised timetable to improve reliability.
- Service 45 – enhanced 20-minute daytime frequency, Monday to Saturday, between Hull and Castle Hill Hospital.
- Service 51 – enhanced 20-minute frequency on Saturday daytimes and minor timetable changes, Monday to Friday, to improve reliability.
- Service 56/57 – slightly revised timetable to improve reliability, Monday to Friday. Enhanced frequency on Saturday daytime, up to every 10 minutes, between Hull and Asda Bilton. Every 20 minutes, on a Saturday, between Hull and Castle Hill Hospital on Service 56 and every 20 minutes, on a Saturday, between Hull and Hessle on Service 57.
- Services 58/59 and 75/X7 – slightly revised timetables to improve reliability.
- Service 79/277 – additional peak trips introduced.
- Service 173 – new Saturday service from Withernsea to Burton Pidsea to Hull. One journey in each direction. Departs from Withernsea at 9.30am and returns from Hull at 1.20pm.
Ben Gilligan, managing director of East Yorkshire Buses, said: “We are pleased to be making further improvements to our network to increase the frequency of service as well as address the punctuality of our routes as a result of the need to react to traffic levels in the city.
“We are confident that our customers will see a benefit from improved timetables and greater predictability and we would encourage people to use our app to track their services in real time.”
For more information about getting around Hull by bus, visit: www.travelhull.co.uk
