The Council’s Transport for Cornwall initiative had the ambition to consolidate all the timetables into one coordinated system. As from April 2022, the Transport for Cornwall website started publishing timetables that include the routes of all operators and have generally combined times into one timetable where two operators are running on the same route at different times of the day. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be keeping the website up to date and, already some of the information on it is out of date.
The timetables for some routes changed on 4 September 2022. The new timetable covering the whole of Cornwall was published online on the Transport for Cornwall website. Printed timetables are also available in a variety of locations. Unfortunately, the printed timetables seem to have been printed a little before the finalised web version was published and the printed version has at least a couple of omissions:
Truro to St Austell, No. 27, this route is predominantly covered by First as a commercial service Monday to Saturday daytimes, and the evenings and Sundays and bank holidays are covered by GoCornwall on a subsidised basis. The printed timetable only shows the Monday-Friday services; it has omitted the Saturday and Sunday/bank holiday times. They are included in the online version of the timetable.
Pendeen to Penzance, branded as Tin Coaster by First who run commercial services 7 days a week in the daytime; GoCornwall run subsidised services in the evenings Monday to Saturday as route 18. These timetables are omitted from the printed book but are included in the online version - you can find it after the Tinner T1 and T2 timetables before the Coast to Coast U1/U1A timetable.
There were also some timetable changes to a number of GoCornwall Bus services on 30 October 2022. A new, comprehensive timetable booklet has been published online but it is only available on the GoCornwall website and not on the Transport for Cornwall website. The Transport for Cornwall website still has a link to “Service changes 4 September” but does not have a link to the service changes that GoCornwall made on 30 October, and the link to “Bus Times Guide Book” is to the old 4 September timetables.
It seems, therefore, that the ambition to make Transport for Cornwall the brand and reference point for all information about bus services in Cornwall is still a long way from being achieved. Bus passengers often still have to use investigative powers to work out when buses are supposed to run. In order to help, you can download from here the new Cornwall Bus Timetable (services from 30 October 2022).
Update 3 December
The Transport for Cornwall website has now been updated. See TfC website update.