Bennetts Coach Hire News

Bennetts Coaches are pleased to announce that we have recently purchased four new Mercedes Citaros for use at the Park and Ride at Arle Court. The buses are now in operation and offer passengers excellent comfort for travel in and out of Cheltenham.

Update at 13:13 11th January 2010.

Having carried out a review of all of the routes that we provide, it is our intention to run the following services with effect from 12th January 2010. This is subject to any drastic change in the weather conditions that would affect the vehicle safety and those of the passengers.

Brockworth Enterprise School:

All services to run as normal.

St Peter’s High School:

All services to run as normal.

Pates Grammar School:

Service to run as normal.

Newent Community School:

All services to run as normal.

High School for Girls and Sir Thomas Rich’s School:

All services to run as normal with the exception of DR4 and DR6 which will be as follows:

DR4: Service starts at Sandford Mill Road. Due to the road surface, there will be no pick ups from Sixways, Lyefield Road and Copt Elm Road. The remaining pick ups will be as usual. Please can those pupils who would normally be picked up at Sixways, LyefieldRoad and Copt Elm make their way to the Moorend Road/Withyholt Court stop.

DR6: Please can those pupils who would catch this service at Hatherley Court Road, make their way to the junction of Hatherley Court Road and Hatherley Road to catch the bus. This service will then complete its allocated route.

Any further updates will be issued via our website. Thank you for your assistance.

Please note that we intend to operate as per the following for Monday 11th January 2010 and beyond until such time that there is an improvement in the weather and therefore the road surfaces. We are making an assumption that the schools will be open, however as the weekend approaches we appreciate that parents and pupils will need to plan ahead. If the schools are shut then the services will not run.

Brockworth School

We have reviewed the routes and can not provide a school bus service to the school due to the conditions of the surrounding access roads. The School has been notified of this. We will continue to review the situation from Monday and update this site accordingly.

High School for Girls and Sir Thomas Rich’s Schools

We will run the following services:

DR1: No Swindon Lane or Swindon Village pick ups

DR2: No Windyridge or Pittville Circus pick ups

DR3: No Berkhampstead School pick up

DR4: Service starts at Sandford Mill Road. Due to the road surface, there will be no pick ups from Sixways, Lyefield Road and Copt Elm Road. The remaining pick ups will be as usual. Please can those pupils who would normally be picked up at Sixways, Lyefield Road and Copt Elm make their way to the Moorend Road/Withyholt Court stop.

DR5: No Leckhampton Road / Co-op pick ups

DR6: Please can pupils make their way to the bus stop opposite St Stephens Road in the Park who would normally catch the bus from the Hatherley Court Road, Warden Hill stops. For those pupils in Hatherley/Warden Hill we will be stopping opposite Morrison’s. The Bus will then make its way to school. We are unfortunately unable to pick up from Churchdown at the Bat and Ball, Community Centre, Parton Road Library and The Elf Garage on Cheltenham Road due to the road conditions being unsuitable for the coach.

DR7: Full Service

DR8: Full Service

St Peter’s High School

Due to the link roads not being suitable we would ask all pupils to make their way to nearest stops as per the following:

SPH1: Will run from stops 1-4 and then onto the school. This service will not pick up after Ermin Street/Dupont (Invista).

SPH2: Will run stops 1-5 and then onto the school.

SPH3: Will run stops 1-7 as normal but will not complete stops 8 and 9 through Abbeymead

Newent School

We intend to review this service on Monday 11th January 2010 based on the road conditions and the school’s plans for opening.

For ease of reference as to the allocated stops please go to our home page and click on the link at the bottom of the page for “School Bus Timetables”. Here you will find all of the required school routes, times and stops.

We would like to thank everyone for their assistance and patience.

Please note that due to the condition of the roads in the area, we will NOT be operating any school bus service to Brockworth Enterprise School on Friday 8th January 2010.

Updated 7th January 2010

Please note that as at 15:35 on 7th January 2010, we understand that Sir Thomas Rich’s School is open tomorrow 8th January 2010 for Year 11-13 pupils only. We are unaware at this time as to whether the High School for Girls is open.

We are therefore planning to run the following school bus services to both schools. If the High School is not open we will run these services to Sir Thomas Rich’s School only. Return journey pick up times will be as usual unless the schools notify us of any early closure.

DR1: No Swindon Lane or Swindon Village pick ups

DR2: No Windyridge or Pitville Circus pick ups

DR3: No Berkhamstead School pick up

DR4: NO SERVICE is running

DR5: No Leckhampton Road / Co-op pick ups

DR6: NO SERVICE is running

DR7: Full Service

DR8: Full Service

For those pupils where a service is not running or is limited we would be grateful if you could make your way to the nearest next stop on ANY route as there will be sufficient space on the coaches. If you are unsure as to where the stops are, please click on the school timetables page on the bottom of the home page. This will take you to all DR routes, stops and times.

Thank you for your assistance with this.

Please note that we will be open as per the following information. We wish all our customers and passengers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2010!

Recently we have been asked about supplying quality travel for Gloucester Rugby supporters for the coming season and if you are interested in registering for away game travel this year please contact us at info@bennettscoaches.co.uk.

We will contact you with any forthcomming travel arrangements.

If you want your children to keep their eyes peeled out on the road for our buses and coaches, simply click on Fun activities and download our fleet list for them to find.

It’s a great way to keep them occupied and concentrating whilst out in the car.