I've known about this for about a week but picked up a leaflet coming back from the Peak District today. The service, tagged on to the 257 route, is Sundays only during the summer. The timing of the first departure from Sheffield means that I'll be able to catch it if my train arrives at Sheffield station on time.
The route goes over the Snake Pass to Glossop and then continues to Hayfield, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Castleton. Apart from using the bus to get up onto Kinder Scout and Bleaklow I can certainly also use it to walk back from Chapel-en-le-Frith to Castleton. Depending on where the intermediate stops are there might be other viable routes back to Castleton.
Unfortunately I can't include an image of the timetable because I no longer have a scanner, but here's a link to the online timetable.
https://www.derbysbus.info/times/timetables/hul25745-sheffield-bakewell.pdf
I spotted this bus whilst waiting at Hayfield for the 358 to Stockport. There is nothing about it on the timetable at Hayfield bus station. It's good to see the stops put along the Snake Road for the defunct X57 being used & the possibility of doing walks from that road again. Shame that it's only a Sunday service.
ReplyDeleteI travelled on it to just north of Chapel-en.-Frith yesterday. It was about half full with people getting off at Fairholmes [Derwent Dam], Snake Inn and the Snake Pass summit. Nioe people got on at Glossop to travel to Castleton - there's a poster stuck on the bus stop there.. As we were crossing the Snake Pass the bus going in the other direction passed us and had maybe fifteen people on it. I hope this service turns out to be financially viable because it's opening up new travel opportunities for people.
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