{"id":2552,"date":"2023-05-04T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/delightful-derbyshire-data\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:46:06","slug":"delightful-derbyshire-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/delightful-derbyshire-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Delightful Derbyshire Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
But First …<\/span><\/p>\n … thanks Paul.<\/p>\n\n Cost \u00a356 plus return Evri postage plus substantial stress for No 3 son as hr mended it; a lot cheaper than \u00a3500 for a new laptop! PHEW!<\/p>\n And so to Derbyshire …<\/p>\n \u00a0What Did They Win?<\/span><\/p>\n It is very much a “back way round” from Chesterfield (off map to the north) via Clay Cross and Tibshelf then on into Alfreton.<\/p><\/div>\n … a Stagecoach 55A<\/span> …<\/p>\n … and, as it turns out, the correct Hulleys 55<\/span>.<\/p>\n Derbyshire explains what has changed.<\/p>\n Prudent enquirers would advisedly go the Derbyshire’s own timetable library which is always the best and usually the most up to date.<\/p>\n It is worth recording that, over the years, several bus services have run to the railway station which is somewhat remote from the central shopping area in Chesterfield. None has ever been successful<\/p><\/div>\n This runs to Bakewell but eschews the main road and serves Old Brampton instead. But very obviously on-line is a PDF from Hulleys for the 170 and X70<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … shows the 170 roughly as per the Derbyshire map and the X70 using the main road and avoiding the wiggle to the villages.<\/p>\n Derbyshire tells us what is changing on the 170 …<\/p>\n … but omits (in the text) the rather important fact that the X70 is withdrawn<\/span>. Presumably the “new money” doesn’t run to supporting the retention of the X70.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … that shows X70 trips from Buxton<\/span>!\u00a0<\/p>\n … which also offers odd 84s to Bakewell.<\/p><\/div>\n … but shows the”portmanteau” 170A with the 84 as well as with the 170 – which is probably sensible for both sets of passengers.<\/p><\/div>\n Not terribly well explained.<\/p>\n The current X17 (above) runs every hour from Barnsley to Sheffield and Chesterfield; every hour Sheffield to Chesterfield and Matlock giving a bus every 30 Mon between Sheffield and Chesterfield<\/p><\/div>\n From the end of May this will become hourly Barnsley, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Matlock overlapping with hourly Sheffield, Chesterfield, Matlock and Wirksworth.<\/p>\n So you can have a half hourly service between Chesterfield and Matlock but, apparently, only one bus an hour to Bakewell. Strange! And it is not “Gold” any more!<\/p>\n The extension to Wirksworth represents a dramatic improvement over what is there now. But Hulleys 110 and 111<\/span> will feel the pinch.<\/p>\n