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First is the UK's leading bus operator, transporting more than 2.8m passengers around the country every day.

Our Worcestershire depot is situated in Worcester and provides local and inter-urban services within the Worcestershire area.

Worcestershire has a great deal to offer including market towns and historic cathedral cities to modern state of the art shopping centre's, castles and stately homes, you can also enjoy the many cottage gardens, cultural events and ancient country festivals.

First is proud to play an important part in keeping the Worcestershire area moving by providing a comprehensive network of bus services and offering a wide range of ticketing products to suit peoples travel needs.

If you are a resident or a visitor to the area and you are looking to travel around in a safe, comfortable and stress free environment and without having to find a parking space, give the bus a try and travel with us.

We are proud to be the longest established bus operator in the area providing an important link to communities and places of interest.

We hope you find our website to be both interesting and informative, we welcome feedback from all our customers on all the services we provide. You can find our contact details here.

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First Midland Red Buses Limited. Registered in England and Wales No. 02000072. Registered office: Abbey Lane, Leicester, LE4 0DA

First Midlands Managing Director: Doug Claringbold

Upcoming Diversions from 2 April

SERVICE 675/676 – WEST MALVERN ROAD

Due to the closure of West Malvern Road on Wednesday 03 April 2024 for 3 days for roadworks, services 675 and 676 will need to divert via Wyche Road in both directions. A shuttle bus service should be provided by Worcestershire County Council although we have not had details sent of this.

SERVICE 44 – MALVERN ROAD

Due to the closure of Malvern Road between Hanbury Park Road and Lower Wick island in Worcester, service 44 will be diverted on Tuesday 02 April for 3 days. Service will be diverted via Bromwich Road in both directions serving all bus stop along this road in lieu of the ones omitted on Malvern Road. This includes the inbound to Worcester bus stop on the roundabout itself.

SERVICE 35/144 - FOREGATE STREET

Due to the closure of Foregate Street in Worcester on Sunday 07 April for resurfacing works, services 35 and 144 will be diverted out of Worcester City Centre.

Service 35 – This service will be diverted after Crowngate Bus Station and will be unable to serve Sansome Street bus stop. It will resume normal route in Lowesmoor and serve the Lowesmoor bus stop as usual.

Service 144 – This service will be diverted after Crowngate Bus Station and will be unable to serve Foregate Street Rail Station bus stop. It will resume normal route on The Tything and serve all other bus stops.

PUBLIC REALM FOOTPATH RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME – WORCESTER CITY CENTRE

We also have a closure on Angel Street in Worcester City Centre from Monday 08 April for approximately 14 weeks.

This will mean services coming towards Worcester from Bath Road and London Road will need to divert via Cathedral and Deansway and access Crowngate Bus Station via The Butts. This means City Walls Road will not be served for this period of time.
Services arriving from Lowesmoor will be diverting from St. Nicholas’ Street via Foregate Street, Castle Street and access Crowngate Bus Station via Angel Place.
Services arriving from The Tything will be diverting via Castle Street and access Crowngate Bus Station via Angel Place.
Services arriving from the West of the City are unaffected by this.

We are expecting severe delays in peak periods during this closure to all services affected.

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