Ashbourne Community Transport KP24HUU
One of the stranger bus services in the Peak District is the A53 which operates four round trips between Leek and Buxton on Sundays-only. Named after the road on which it spends much of its time, funded by Staffordshire CC, and operated by Ashbourne CT, it was introduced in May 2024 to reintroduce a Sunday bus service between the two towns. This had very briefly been provided by D&G from the point in July 2023 when they took on the Sunday workings on First's 18 and extended it to Buxton to the end of October 2023 when they decided to focus resources on the core Hanley to Leek stretch. For most of the past half decade though there have been no Sunday buses between Buxton and Leek, with the Sunday service on D&G's 16 withdrawn during the first Covid lockdown in March 2020.
Resembling as much an Evri delivery van as it does a bus and carrying a near-undetectable card on the dash showing the route number, Mercedes Sprinter KP24HUU is seen passing Ramshaw Rocks with the 10:00 Buxton to Leek.
Ashbourne Community Transport KP24HUU
One of the stranger bus services in the Peak District is the A53 which operates four round trips between Leek and Buxton on Sundays-only. Named after the road on which it spends much of its time, funded by Staffordshire CC, and operated by Ashbourne CT, it was introduced in May 2024 to reintroduce a Sunday bus service between the two towns. This had very briefly been provided by D&G from the point in July 2023 when they took on the Sunday workings on First's 18 and extended it to Buxton to the end of October 2023 when they decided to focus resources on the core Hanley to Leek stretch. For most of the past half decade though there have been no Sunday buses between Buxton and Leek, with the Sunday service on D&G's 16 withdrawn during the first Covid lockdown in March 2020.
Resembling as much an Evri delivery van as it does a bus and carrying a near-undetectable card on the dash showing the route number, Mercedes Sprinter KP24HUU is seen passing Ramshaw Rocks with the 10:00 Buxton to Leek.