High Peak 780
Following over a decade of reasonable stability under TM Travel, service 65 between Sheffield and Buxton has been chopped and changed a lot of late. For the previous few years, TM had been operating one vehicle duty under contract to DCC, and the other on a commercial basis. The loss of an interworked Buxton College contract in October 2016 presumably threatened viability as in March 2017 the commercially-operated duty was transferred from Wellglade-owned TM to half-Wellglade-owned High Peak. High Peak then took on the funded journeys in October 2017, duly introducing a pair of former De Courcey Versas complete with 'Peaks and Dales' route branding. Fast forward nine months and the timetable is once again changing, with High Peak ditching the council-funded journeys from late July whilst bafflingly rerouting their commercial journeys via Wormhill at the expense of Litton.
Branded Versa YJ62FPK (780) was captured in Litton with the 10:55 Buxton-Sheffield journey. Whilst Litton continues to be served by Hulleys' two hourly 173 between Bakewell and Castleton, its links with Buxton and Sheffield/Chesterfield will be reduced from an hourly combined service across the 65/66 prior to October 2017 to the point where it will only be served by a handful of 66s and whatever the council cobble together as a replacement for the withdrawn High Peak 65s on this corridor from the end of July.
High Peak 780
Following over a decade of reasonable stability under TM Travel, service 65 between Sheffield and Buxton has been chopped and changed a lot of late. For the previous few years, TM had been operating one vehicle duty under contract to DCC, and the other on a commercial basis. The loss of an interworked Buxton College contract in October 2016 presumably threatened viability as in March 2017 the commercially-operated duty was transferred from Wellglade-owned TM to half-Wellglade-owned High Peak. High Peak then took on the funded journeys in October 2017, duly introducing a pair of former De Courcey Versas complete with 'Peaks and Dales' route branding. Fast forward nine months and the timetable is once again changing, with High Peak ditching the council-funded journeys from late July whilst bafflingly rerouting their commercial journeys via Wormhill at the expense of Litton.
Branded Versa YJ62FPK (780) was captured in Litton with the 10:55 Buxton-Sheffield journey. Whilst Litton continues to be served by Hulleys' two hourly 173 between Bakewell and Castleton, its links with Buxton and Sheffield/Chesterfield will be reduced from an hourly combined service across the 65/66 prior to October 2017 to the point where it will only be served by a handful of 66s and whatever the council cobble together as a replacement for the withdrawn High Peak 65s on this corridor from the end of July.