Hastings Borough bus service changes
Autumn 2026
- Service number
- 7
- Route
- Hastings Town Centre - Ashford Way
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 27
- Route
- Hastings Town Centre - Linton Road
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 70 (College Days)
- Route
- Rye - Bexhill College
- Changes to current service
- The morning journey will be changed to depart from Rye Station at 07:23 and will serve Hastings Station. After Hastings Station the bus will then run as service 98 to Bexhill College, Bexhill and Sidley. Through fares will be available. The afternoon 70 journey from Bexhill College to Rye is unchanged.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 73,74, (Schooldays)
- Route
- ARK Alexandra Academy school services
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 94 94A (does not serve Silverhill)
- Route
- Bexhill-Bexhill Hospital-Sidley-Coombe Valley Way-Hollington Tesco-Silverhill- Conquest Hospital
- Changes to current service
- Changes to the Monday to Friday 94A service only. The morning journey from Bexhill Devonshire Road will depart at 07:22. Between Sidley Glovers House and Hollington this journey only will be re-routed via Mount View St, Wrestwood Road, Glyne Gap and Harley Shute Road. The morning journey from Conquest Hospital will depart at 07:17. In the Sidley area, the journey will continue to run via Turkey Road (for Mulberry Academy, Bexhill), Southlands Road and Jubilee Road. At present, this journey then continues as service 98 into Bexhill Town Centre and on to Hastings Station, but will now continue as the 94A running via Mount Idol View, Ninfield Road and Bexhill Hospital to Bexhill town centre (arriving significantly earlier at 08:02). The afternoon journey from Conquest Hospital will depart at 15:36. The 15:15 journey from Hollington Tesco to Conquest Hospital will no longer be provided.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 95
- Route
- Little Common (school journeys)-Bexhill-Sidley-Ninfield-Catsfield-Battle-Conquest Hospital
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 98
- Route
- Hastings Pebsham-Bexhill-Sidley
- Changes to current service
- Route and timetable changes. The Monday to Saturday daytime frequency will continue to be 30 minutes, plus 60 minutes evenings and Sundays. North of the All Saints Lane Lidl bus stops in Sidley the 98 will run as a one way ‘clockwise’ route via Turkey Road, Southlands Road, Jubilee Road, Mount Idol View and Ninfield Road. It will no longer serve the Our Lady of the Rosary Church bus stop in Southlands Road. An afternoon journey on schooldays will continue to serve the Gunters Lane stop in Turkey Road for Mulberry Academy, Bexhill, pupils. Nearly all Monday to Saturday journeys will extend beyond Hastings Station to and from Silverhill, via Bohemia Road. Timetable changes affect almost all daytime journeys on Mondays to Saturdays with particularly significant changes to early morning journeys and also to afternoon journeys from Hastings on Mondays to Fridays. On Sundays, before 10:00 and after 17:30, several journeys will run between Silverhill and Hastings Station via Bohemia Road. Existing journeys from Hastings Station will depart 16 minutes earlier and journeys from Sidley will run around 21 minutes earlier. Also on Sundays, there will be additional later journeys between Hastings and Sidley (17:35 and 18:25 from Hastings Station and 17:26 and 18:26 from Sidley, Whitehouse Avenue).
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except Evening and early Sunday service funded by development contributions.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 99 99E (also serves Sovereign Harbour South, Eastbourne)
- Route
- Eastbourne-Pevensey-Bexhill-Hastings
- Changes to current service
- No change.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis Evening services funded by development contributions.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 100
- Route
- Conquest Hospital - Hastings - Rye - New Romney
- Changes to current service
- On Sundays the 10:06 departure from Hastings Station will start from 09:56 at Silverhill, serving Bohemia Road en route.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for: Late evening Monday to Saturday journeys between Silverhill and Rye operate with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 101
- Route
- Conquest Hospital-Hastings-Guestling-Icklesham-Winchelsea-Rye-Lydd-New Romney
- Changes to current service
- The Monday to Friday 07:56 journey from Rye Station to Hastings will be retimed to depart at 07:50 and will run 6 minutes earlier throughout.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for: Sunday service and Monday to Saturday evening journeys at 20:45 from Conquest Hospital and 21:54 from Rye (as far as Hastings Rail Station) operate with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 300A, 300C
- Route
- Hastings Town Centre-Downs Road- Linley Drive-Malvern Way-The Ridge- Conquest Hospital-Hillside Road-Parkstone Road- Park View- St Helens Road
- Changes to current service
- New service 300A/300C will replace services 324 between Hastings Station and Malvern Way and 329A between Conquest Hospital and Hastings Station. The 300A/300C will run hourly in each direction, daily, during the main part of the day. In doing so it will provide a new direct link to the Conquest Hospital (via The Ridge) from Downs Road, Hoads Wood Road, Linley Drive and Malvern Way. The last circular journey on the 300A will depart Hastings Station at 17:39 on Mondays to Saturdays after which there will be one journey per hour running to Malvern Way and Conquest Hospital with the last departure from the Station at 22:57, similar to the current 324. The Saturday timetable provides a first journey to Malvern Way over an hour earlier than the 324. On Sundays, the last circular journey on the 300A will depart Hastings Station at 17:30 with further journeys leaving at 18:30 and 19:40 to Malvern Way and Conquest Hospital, making the last journey to Malvern Way at about the same time as the current 324. The last circular journey on the 300C will depart Hastings Station at 20:05 on Mondays to Saturdays after which there will be journeys from the Conquest Hospital at 21:27 and 22:27 via Malvern Way to Hastings Town Centre. This gives a last journey from Malvern Way at a very similar time to the current 324. The Saturday timetable provides a first journey from Malvern Way and Pennine Rise to Hastings Station more than an hour earlier than the 324. The current service 329A journeys serving ARK Alexandra Academy (Helenswood campus) will be replaced by an almost identically timed morning journey on service 300C from Hastings Station. In the afternoon the 329A journey will be replaced by a service 300A journey at 15:33 which will serve stops through to the town centre 8 minutes later than the current bus. Service 300A/300C will continue to provide journeys serving Ore, Ivy Gardens, for Mulberry Academy, Hastings, in place of the 324. The relevant morning journey (300A) will depart Hastings Station at 07:45 and serve stops up to 8 minutes earlier than the 324. In the afternoon, the 300C will depart Ivy Gardens at 15:28, also running earlier than the 324. The 300A/300C will also provide new journey opportunities for those travelling from the western side of the new route (St Helens Road, Park View, Parkstone Road, Hillside Road, Conquest Hospital) and The Ridge. In the morning, this will be by means of a service 300C journey departing Hastings Station at 07:45 (Conquest Hospital at 08:13) and arriving at Ivy Gardens at 08:24. In the afternoons, this will be by means of a service 300A journey leaving Ivy Gardens at 15:20.
- Service provided by
- Commercial service provided by Stagecoach. The 22:57 Monday to Saturday 300A journey from Hastings Station to Malvern Way and Conquest Hospital, along with some of the Sunday service, operate with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 319, 319C
- Route
- Hastings Rail Station- St Leonards- Silverhill- Old Church Road (319)/ Castleham Industrial Estate (319C)- Hollington Tesco- Mayfield Farm
- Changes to current service
- Revised timetable. The frequency will continue to be 20 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, 30 minutes Sunday daytime and hourly in the evening. From Mayfield Farm, the first Monday to Friday journey will be at 05:50 and will replace the current Monday to Friday only 322A journey. On Saturday, the first journey will be somewhat later than at present at 07:18. The four Monday to Friday journeys before 08:00 from Hastings Station, serving Castleham Industrial Estate instead of Old Church Road, are re-timed and re-numbered 319C. Three afternoon journeys towards Hastings Station will also serve Castleham instead of Old Church Road, departing from adjacent Moorhurst Road at 16:15, 17:18 and 17:58. These will also be numbered 319C. On Sundays most service 319 journeys from Mayfield Farm will run a little earlier than at present but the last two journeys in both directions will run around 15 minutes later.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for: Sunday morning service funded by ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 321
- Route
- Ore Down Farm-Old Town-Hastings Rail Station- St Leonards Town Centre- The Green-Harrow Lane-Conquest Hospital
- Changes to current service
- Revised timetable on Monday to Saturday. The frequency will continue to be 30 minutes daytime and hourly in the evening. The Sunday timetable is unchanged. The three journeys that currently serve the Ivy Gardens stop on schooldays will be withdrawn, with all journeys serving Ore running to/from Down Farm. The schoolday afternoon journey serving Helenswood campus of ARK Alexandra Academy will depart the site at 15:38 and run 8 minutes later than at present. The 21:45 journey from Conquest Hospital on Monday to Saturday evenings will be extended beyond Hastings Station to Down Farm thus providing a journey about 2 hours later than at present.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for: Some evening and Sunday services funded by ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 322, 322B 322E
- Route
- 322: Ore-Hastings Town Centre-St Leonards-Silverhill-Stonehouse Drive-Hollington Tesco. 322B: Ore-Hastings town centre-St Leonards-Silverhill-Ironlatch Avenue- Harley Shute 322E: Ore-Hastings town centre- St Leonards-Silverhill-Stonehouse Drive-Hollington Tesco-Harley Shute)
- Changes to current service
- Revised service and times. The daytime service on Mondays to Saturdays will continue to operate every 20 minutes between Ore, Ivy Gardens, and Blackman Avenue at Hollington with 2 journeys per hour numbered 322 and 1 journey per hour numbered 322B. From Blackman Avenue, one 322 per hour will continue to loop to serve Stonehouse Drive before continuing to Tesco whilst the other will run direct via Marline Road and Church Wood Drive to Tesco. The 322B journeys will run via Ironlatch Avenue to Harley Shute, the same as the current 322C route. The new daytime service on Sundays has been renumbered 322B (currently 322C) and has minor timing changes. The current 322 hourly evening route has minor timing changes on all days. At the Hollington end, it will continue running via Stonehouse Drive and beyond Tesco to/from Harley Shute, but is renumbered 322E. An additional 322E journey will operate on Saturday mornings starting at Ivy Gardens at 06:47, providing an earlier first journey into Hastings town centre. The one Monday to Friday 322A journey, which runs from Tesco via Mayfield Farm at 05:45, is withdrawn and partially replaced by a 319 journey (see above). The first journey from Hastings town centre to Ivy Gardens will be about an hour later than at present. The Mondays to Fridays 07:24 322B from Ore will be routed via Bohemia Road instead of St Leonards, Warrior Square. This journey will serve Hollington Tesco (08:10) as well as Mayfield Farm (08:13), before arriving at St Leonard’s Academy at 08:24. These timings are slightly earlier than the current variant of the 324. The 15:42 from Harley Shute will also serve Mayfield Farm and Tesco before picking up standard 322B route at Blackman Avenue (not via Bohemia Road). This partially replaces a service 324 journey that operates on schooldays from Harley Shute at 15:31.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for: Sunday evening service funded by ESCC with UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 323
- Route
- Harley Shute-Filsham Valley-St Leonards Medical Centre- West St Leonards- Hastings Town Centre-Elphinstone Road- Pilot Road-Conquest Hospital
- Changes to current service
- The first journey to Conquest Hospital on Mondays to Saturdays will run earlier for shift workers, departing Hastings Station at 06:22 and arriving at the hospital at 06:45. The first Monday to Friday journey from Conquest Hospital will depart 1 minute later at 07:20 and terminate at Hastings Station at 07:43. Passengers travelling to West St Leonards and Harley Shute can change to the 323B which departs Hastings Station at 07:48. There are other timing changes of up to 18 minutes.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for: Monday to Saturday service between Hastings Rail Station and the Conquest Hospital and the entire Sunday service is funded by ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 323B
- Route
- Hastings Town Centre - St Leonards - Harley Shute-Hollington-Conquest Hospital
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 324 - withdrawn
- Route
- Malvern Way-Downs Road-Hastings Town Centre-Bohemia Road-Silverhill-Hollington Tesco-Blackman Avenue-Ironlatch Avenue- Harley Shute
- Changes to current service
- Service withdrawn. Replaced between Malvern Way, Downs Road and Hastings Town Centre by new circular service 300A/300C which will now also serve Conquest Hospital (see above), running on the current daily hourly frequency. Replaced between Hastings Station, Bohemia Road and Silverhill on Monday to Saturday daytime by service 98, on an improved half-hourly frequency compared to the current hourly 324 service. On Sunday, before 10:00 and after 17:30, there will be some additional journeys on services 98 and 100 before 10:00 and after 17:30 to partially replace the current half-hourly Sunday service along Bohemia Road. During the main part of the day on Sunday there will be a twice hourly service on this section through a combination of the 100, 101, 349 and 1066. Replaced along Ironlatch Avenue and to/from Harley Shute by new service 322B (see above).
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis.
- Date of change
- 6 September 026
- Service number
- 328
- Route
- Hastings Town Centre- West Hill-Ore-Conquest Hospital
- Changes to current service
- Revised route and timetable. Except for certain early morning journeys, no longer serve Malvern Way and Pennine Rise, thus providing a quicker journey along The Ridge for customers travelling between West Hill, Halton, Ore and Conquest Hospital. Instead, new service 300A/300C will link the Malvern Way area to the Hospital on a regular basis (see above). One morning and one afternoon journey will continue to serve ARK Helenswood Academy on schooldays. The morning journey is little changed whilst the afternoon journey will depart the Academy a little later at 15:35 and will run via the revised standard 328 route, not serving Malvern Way. An alternative facility is available on service 73. The timetable changes during the day on Mondays to Saturdays are significant with the majority of journeys leaving Hastings Station at 9 minutes past the hour rather than 36 minutes past the hour with most journeys from the Conquest Hospital departing at 40 minutes past the hour rather than 10 past. In the evening, the journeys run to similar times (10 past the hour from Hastings Station and 40 minutes past the hour from the Hospital) meaning that these journeys operate up to 7 minutes earlier than current times. The service 328 timetable has been co-ordinated with those of the 300A/300C to provide journeys between Hastings town centre, The Ridge and Conquest Hospital, broadly every half hour during the main part of the day.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis Monday to Saturday. Sunday service is funded by ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 329
- Route
- Hastings-Park View- Conquest Hospital-Westfield-Broad Oak-Northiam-Tenterden
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 329A - withdrawn
- Route
- Hastings-Park View- Conquest Hospital (certain Monday to Saturday journeys extend to Sedlescombe Road North for Sainsbury’s)
- Changes to current service
- Service withdrawn and replaced by new circular route 300A/300C (see above), running hourly in each direction daily. Currently the combined Monday to Saturday frequency of service 329 and 329A is half-hourly between Hastings Staton and Conquest Hospital. Service 329 will continue to run approximately every 2 hours, Monday to Saturday daytime. Some 329A journeys currently extend to and from Sainsbury’s in Sedlescombe Road North. This will not be provided for in the 300A/300C due to the extremely low level of use made of this facility. Whilst the overall service frequency is reduced, the last bus from Hastings Station to Conquest Hospital on service 300C will operate 15 minutes later than the current last 329A throughout the week and there will be a new earlier journey from the Conquest Hospital to the town on Saturday arriving at Hastings Station at 07:38 (service 300A).
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 331
- Route
- Clifton Road-Frederick Rd -Ore village-Malvern Way-Parker Road- Hastings Rail Station
- Changes to current service
- Minor timing adjustments Monday to Saturday.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 342 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Northiam-Peasmarsh-Playden-Rye-Udimore- Broad Oak-Westfield
- Changes to current service
- Minor timing changes to some journeys from Hastings Station on Monday to Saturday.
- Service provided by
- Big Lemon with funding from ESCC through UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 347
- Route
- Pett-Guestling-Hastings (one return journey also serves Fairlight and Guestling Bradshaw School on schooldays)
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC, with the help of bus support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 349
- Route
- Hastings-Sedlescombe-Bodiam-Sandhurst-Hawkhurst
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government
- Date of change
- Service number
- 359 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Hastings - St Richards Catholic College
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 361 (College Days)
- Route
- Peasmarsh-Northiam-Westfield-Bexhill College
- Changes to current service
- The Big Lemon will take over running this service from September 2026.
- Service provided by
- Run by The Big Lemon with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government.
- Date of change
- 3 September 2026
- Service number
- 384 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Hastings - Battle Robertsbridge Community College
- Changes to current service
- The afternoon journey from Robertsbridge Community College will depart 5 minutes later, at 15:30.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 1066
- Route
- Hastings-Battle (some journeys serve Claverham Community College)-Mountfield or Whatlington-Robertsbridge- Hurst Green-Hawkhurst-Flimwell-Ticehurst-Wadhurst-Frant- Tunbridge Wells
- Changes to current service
- The schooldays 07:35 journey from Hastings Station to Tunbridge Wells will depart 5 minutes later revised to follow the standard 1066 route via Bohemia Road (times are unchanged from Silverhill onwards). The schooldays 07:37 journey from Hastings Station to Claverham Community College will continue to run via St Leonards and Warrior Square. On Monday to Friday the journey from Hastings Station at 15:05 is revised to depart at 15:07 on school days and 15:13 in the school holidays. On schooldays, the journey will additionally call into Robertsbridge Community College at 15:57. From the north of Robertsbridge, the journey will continue 6 minutes later than now to Tunbridge Wells. The journey from Tunbridge Wells at 17:15 on Monday to Friday is delayed to start at 17:20, running 5 minutes later through to Hawkhurst and continuing 2 minutes later to Hastings.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC with the help of bus support grant from UK Government and a contribution from Kent County Council. Sunday service funded by development contributions.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
