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Go South West Plymouth Citybus has further expanded with a new Go Devon Bus brand for Devon County Council contracts surrendered by Stagecoach South West (Buses last month) linking Exeter and Crediton with Hatherleigh, Okehampton, Chulmleigh, Torrington, Bideford and Barnstaple from October 31.
New rural two-hourly routes 315 (Exeter-Bideford-Barnstaple) and 345 (Exeter-Hatherleigh-Okehampton) and hourly route 377 (Exeter-Chulmleigh) combine to half-hourly Exeter-Crediton. They restore old route numbers and replace Stagecoach routes 5B, 5A and 5C with no change to frequencies.
Stagecoach had run them as extensions to its commercial Exeter-Crediton route 5 which continues every 20 minutes, thus buses on the eight-mile corridor increase from three to five per hour. Local trains also recently doubled to two an hour leading to disproportionately higher frequencies than other comparable corridors.
Stagecoach now has no direct Exeter-North Devon services but retains three route 5 peak weekday single projections from Hatherleigh, Winkleigh and Chulmleigh, the former timed two-three minutes ahead of a 345 service.
The 315/45/77 require eight buses – cascaded red Go Devon Bus branded Enviro200s – curre…
