Sainsbury's Staplehurst Free Bus: Information Please!

[Chris]

In a somewhat unusual occurrence, the reverse of what has been the case with supermarket services across the country, a bus service is apparently running to the (still relatively) new Sainsbury's store in Staplehurst, presumably on s.106 funding. 

The timetable (downloaded from Facebook) is attached, but there is no mention of an operator. If anyone happens across it in the coming week/s, we'd be pleased to know who is running it! 

Chris

[Clive Cheeseman]

My understanding is that Hams Travel operates it. The Parish Council website mentioned some months ago that Sainsbury's would be providing a service, but does not show any details or timetable. Sainsbury's own website doesn't have anything about it - just Facebook which is how most of the village 'news' gets circulated (according to my daughter who lives there!

[Nicholas King]

Reference to plans for this service will be found on page 21/187 of Invicta.

 

Nicholas King

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[DerekJ]

Confirmed that Hams are running it, and it is understood to have started during early March.

Note that the S1 runs via Frittenden, a village that hadn't had a bus service of any sort for quite a few years!

My picture (taken on 30th April 1985 but posted to the group in 2012) shows an M&D Leopard 3462 outside the Bell & Jorrocks in that village

https://groups.google.com/g/mdekbusclub/c/il8RNsRKM4c/m/l_jEROsdCwMJ 

and see also the discussion on the group this time last year - https://groups.google.com/g/mdekbusclub/c/Q0BX9sg42zA/m/eVBhu9qZAAAJ .

Derek J

[Chris]

Belated thanks to both Clive and Derek - it means Nicholas has been able to put a complete entry into Invicta this month, rather than an educated guess. 

It is interesting that having had regular updates on the service whilst it was still in planning (It was a random search for something else that led me to the parish council website where I discovered the materials that made became the Invicta reference), Staplehurst have suddenly gone quiet now the service has started! Then again, both Meopham PC and KCC still mention the existance of the Meopham Community Bus, withdrawn last year! 

Chris