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Stagecoach Gold Alexander Dennis Enviro300 in Summertown, Oxford | |
Overview | |
Operator | Stagecoach Oxfordshire |
Garage | Banbury |
Route | |
Start | Banbury |
Via | Adderbury Deddington Steeple Aston Tackley Kidlington |
End | Oxford |
Service | |
Frequency | Up to every 60 minutes (to Oxford) Up to every 30 minutes (to Deddington) |
Operates | Daily |
Timetable | S4 timetable |
Stagecoach Gold bus route S4 is a bus route in England that links Banbury, Adderbury, Deddington, Steeple Aston, Tackley, Kidlington and Oxford. The service is run by Stagecoach in Oxfordshire.
Stagecoach in Oxfordshire is the trading name of Thames Transit Ltd. It is a bus operator serving the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is a subsidiary of Stagecoach Group.
Route S4 was formed in 2011 when routes 59/59A/59B were combined into one, which also saw brand new buses being delivered for the new route. [1]
The service was upgraded to Stagecoach Gold status in September 2015, with brand new Gold vehicles being delivered in August and the upgraded service having an official launch event in Banbury at the start of September. Route S4 was also the first Stagecoach Gold route to feature USB charging facilities on-board. [2]
Stagecoach Gold is a luxury bus sub-brand used by various Stagecoach bus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom.
The service was previously subsidised by Oxfordshire County Council, even after the service was upgraded to Gold status, with only a few journeys being operated on a commercial basis. [3] In 2015, Oxfordshire County Council announced that it would end all bus subsidies in the county with effect from July 2016. [4] Route S4 has been run on a full commercial basis since the cuts.
Oxfordshire County Council, established in 1889, is the county council, or upper-tier local authority, for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire, in the South East of England, an elected body responsible for the most strategic local government services in the county.
The route runs between Banbury and Oxford. The service starts at Banbury bus station, adjacent to Castle Quay Shopping Centre, before heading towards the town centre and then leaving the town via Oxford Road, passing the Horton General Hospital. The service continues down the A4260 Oxford road, passing Bodicote before turning off the road in to Adderbury village. The service continues round the village's main road before re-joining the A4260 towards Deddington. In Deddington the service turns off the main road to serve Deddington Market Place. The route rejoins the A4260 continuing down to South Side junction whereby the service leaves the A4260 to serve Steeple Aston and Tackley. The service then re-joins the A4260 Oxford road before heading into Kidlington. As the service enters Kidlington, it passes, but does not serve, Oxford Airport. The service continues down the A4260 through Kidlington until the Cuttslowe roundabout in Oxford. The route then joins Banbury Road, heading directly down the road to the service's terminus on Magdalen Street in the city centre. [5]
Banbury is an historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England. The town is situated 64 miles (103 km) northwest of London, 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Birmingham, 27 miles (43 km) south-by-southeast of Coventry and 22 miles (35 km) north-by-northwest of the county town of Oxford. It had a population of 46,853 at the 2011 census.
Castle Quay Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the town of Banbury, north Oxfordshire, England.
The Horton General Hospital is a National Health Service hospital located on the Oxford Road, in the Calthorpe ward of Banbury. It is managed by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The total off-peak journey time is about 75 minutes.
Route S4 runs up to every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday between Banbury and Deddington with services to/from Oxford running up to every 60 minutes. There is no late evening service to Oxford with the last service departing Banbury at 17:50. There are however two further journeys to Deddington at 18:20 and 19:20. The last service from Oxford to Banbury departs Oxford at 19:20.
There is a Sunday service with four journeys running between Banbury and Oxford in each direction.
Route S4 does not have a night service and is one of two Stagecoach Gold routes operated by Stagecoach in Oxfordshire not to have a night service, the other being route S2. [6]
Stagecoach Gold bus route S2 is a bus route in England that links Carterton, Witney and Oxford. The service is run by Stagecoach in Oxfordshire.
Route S4 runs out of the Oxford depot using Alexander Dennis Enviro300 bodied Scania K230UB and it's the only Stagecoach Gold route operated by Stagecoach in Oxfordshire to be operated with single deckers, as all other Oxfordshire Gold routes are operated with double deckers.
Cherwell is a local government district in northern Oxfordshire, England. The district takes its name from the River Cherwell, which drains south through the region to flow into the River Thames at Oxford.
Charlbury is a small town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Witney in West Oxfordshire. It is on the edge of Wychwood Forest and the Cotswolds. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,830.
Oxford Bus Company is the trading name of The City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd. It is a bus operator serving the city and surrounding area of Oxford, England. It is a subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group.
Adderbury is a winding linear village and rural civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) south of Banbury in northern Oxfordshire, England. The settlement has five sections: The new Milton Road housing Development & West Adderbury towards the south-west; East Adderbury to the centre, both with a village green and a manor house; and the new housing Development on the Aynho Road; and the north-east, which is known as Twyford, named after a small outlying settlement by a forked section of the River Cherwell.
Banbury, also informally known as Banbury and North Oxfordshire or simply North Oxfordshire, is a constituency in Oxfordshire created in 1553 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Victoria Prentis of the Conservative Party.
Deddington is a civil parish and small town in Oxfordshire about 6 miles (10 km) south of Banbury. The parish includes two hamlets: Clifton and Hempton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,146.
Bodicote is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of the centre of Banbury in Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,126.
The Cherwell Valley line is the railway line between Didcot and Banbury via Oxford. It links the Great Western Main Line and the south to the Chiltern Main Line and the Midlands. The line follows the River Cherwell for much of its route between Oxford and Banbury.
Great Bourton is a village about 3 miles (5 km) north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. It is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Bourton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 614.
Tackley railway station is on the Cherwell Valley Line in Oxfordshire, England, serving the village of Tackley and its surrounding area. Great Western Railway operates the station and all but one of the trains serving it. The exception is a weekday late night service to Banbury operated by Chiltern Railways.
The A4260 is a road that leads from the A422 Henneff Way, Banbury to Frieze Way near Oxford. It is single carriageway for a majority of the route, except for a section near Steeple Aston for 0.9 miles (1.4 km) and on Frieze Way where the A4260 meets the A34 at Peartree Interchange, Oxford, where it becomes a dual carriageway. The road passes through Bodicote, Adderbury, Deddington and Kidlington, Oxfordshire. The road terminates at the A44 road roundabout at Frieze Way which is just north of Oxford. Until 1990 it was part of the A423 and the major route from Banbury to Oxford. It was renumbered to encourage the traffic that formerly used this route to use the M40.
Kidlington railway station opened in 1852 on the Oxford and Rugby Railway to serve the adjacent Oxfordshire village of Kidlington, and act as a railhead for the town of Woodstock, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away. It became a junction station in 1890 upon the opening of the Blenheim and Woodstock Branch Line, and served the area for over 100 years before falling victim to the programme of closures initiated by the Beeching Report in 1964. Following many proposals for its reopening, a new station to serve Kidlington opened in October 2015 at Oxford Parkway on the Oxford to Bicester Line.
Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire is a major operator of bus services in North West England. It is a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group, and has its origins in the purchase of Cumberland in 1987 and Ribble in 1988 from the National Bus Company. The head office of Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire is in Carlisle. It was previously known as Stagecoach North West until 1 September, when Stagecoach Merseyside joined Preston and Chorley depots to form Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire.
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