Rother District bus service changes
Autumn 2026
- Service number
- 11, 11A
- Route
- Bexhill Town Centre - Little Common
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Bexhill Community Bus
- Date of change
- Service number
- 12
- Route
- Bexhill Town Centre - Pebsham
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Bexhill Community Bus
- Date of change
- Service number
- 13, 13A
- Route
- Bexhill Town Centre - Little Common - Cooden Beach
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Bexhill Community Bus
- Date of change
- Service number
- 14
- Route
- Bexhill Town Centre - Sutton Place
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Bexhill Community Bus
- Date of change
- Service number
- 53
- Route
- Eastbourne-Polegate-Hailsham-Herstmonceux-Ninfield-Sidley- Bexhill Hospital-Bexhill
- Changes to current service
-
No change . - Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis except for Sunday service funded by ESCC with help of UK Government grant.
- 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
- 94, 94A (journeys numbered 94A do not serve Silverhill)
- Route
- Bexhill-Bexhill Hospital-Sidley- Combe 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, 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 - Ninfield - Battle - 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
- 96
- Route
- Little Common- Cooden Beach-Bexhill-Ridgewood Gardens
- 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
- 97
- Route
- Bexhill-Glenleigh Park–Sidley
- 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
- 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). See service 94A, above, for details of an additional early morning journey on Mondays to Fridays from Turkey Road, Jubilee Road and Mount Idol View to Bexhill town centre.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis Evening service and earlier Sunday morning service are funded by Development Contributions.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 99 99E (journeys also serve Sovereign Harbour South in Eastbourne)
- Route
- Eastbourne-Pevensey-Bexhill-Hastings
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach on a commercial basis Evening services from April 2026 partly funded by development contributions.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 100
- Route
- Conquest Hospital-Hastings-Guestling-Icklesham-Winchelsea-Rye-Lydd-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 journeys Monday - Saturday 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
- Hastings-Fairlight-Winchelsea Beach-Rye (also serves Conquest Hospital evenings and Sundays)
- 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 Monday to Saturday daytime Monday to Saturday evenings and Sundays funded by ESCC with help of UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 225 (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)
- Route
- Crowborough-Rotherfield-Heathfield-Rushlake Green-Brightling-Netherfield-Battle
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- North Wealden Community Transport Partnership (Wealdlink) with funding from ESCC with the help of bus support grant from UK Government
- Date of change
- Service number
- 231
- Route
- Heathfield-Burwash- Etchingham (plus Hurst Green–Uckfield schooldays only journeys)
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Compass Travel with funding from ESCC with the help of bus support grant from UK Government
- Date of change
- Service number
- 294 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Peasmarsh-Beckley-Northiam-Tenterden (Homewood School)
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Hams Travel with funding from Kent County Council.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 312
- Route
- Rye-Playden-Iden-Wittersham-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
- 313, 313U
- Route
- Rye Harbour-Rye-Playden-Peasmarsh-Beckley-Northiam (some journeys, numbered 313U, between Rye and Northiam run via Udimore and Broad Oak)
- 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
- 320 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Ninfield - Claverham College
- 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
- 326
- Route
- Rye local service (certain journeys to/from Broad Oak)
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Rye & District Community Transport
- Date of change
- Service number
- 329
- Route
- Hastings - St Helens-Conquest Hospital-Westfield-Broad Oak-Northiam-Tenterden
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC and Kent County Council with the help of UK Government.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 342 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Northiam-Playden-Rye-Udimore-Westfield
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- The Big Lemon with funding from ESCC and the help of UK Government bus grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 347
- Route
- Pett-Guestling-Hastings (a return schooldays only journey also extends from/to Ore via Fairlight and Chick Hill)
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC with the help of UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 349
- Route
- Hastings-Sedlescombe-Bodiam-Sandhurst-Hawkhurst
- Changes to current service
- Minor timing changes to some journeys from Hastings Station on Monday to Saturday.
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from ESCC with the help of UK Government grant
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- 355 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Claverham Community College school journeys
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Rambler Coaches with funding from ESCC with the help of UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 356 (College Days)
- Route
- Little Common - Hooe - Claverham College
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Rambler Coaches with funding from ESCC with the help of UK Government grant
- 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 with the help of UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 361 (College Days)
- Route
- Peasmarsh - Bexhill College
- Changes to current service
- The Big Lemon will take over running this service from September 2026.
- Service provided by
- The Big Lemon with funding from ESCC with Government grant
- Date of change
- 3 September 2026
- Service number
- 381 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Westfield - Robertsbridge Community College
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Rambler Coaches with funding from ESCC with Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 382 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Rye - Robertsbridge Community College
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- The Big Lemon with funding from ESCC's UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 383 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Peasmarsh - Robertsbridge Community College
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Rambler Coaches with funding from ESCC's UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- 384 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Hastings - 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
- 553 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Brookland-New Romney-Lydd-Camber-Rye
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- R&J Coaches Funded by Kent County Council with a contribution from ESCC
- Date of change
- Service number
- 977 (Schooldays)
- Route
- Lydd - Tenterden (Homewood School)
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Stagecoach with funding from Kent County Council.
- Date of change
- 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 and 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, Warrior Square. 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 school days, 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 at present to Tunbridge Wells. The journey from Tunbridge Wells at 17:15 on Mondays to Fridays 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 using UK Government grant and a contribution from Kent County Council. Sunday service funded by development contributions.
- Date of change
- 6 September 2026
- Service number
- B67 (Tuesday)
- Route
- Battle - Sedlescombe
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC using UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B71 (Tuesday)
- Route
- Mountfield - Battle
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC using UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B72 (Monday)
- Route
- Mountfield–Broad Oak-Westfield-St Leonards (Sainsburys)-Battle-Netherfield
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC using UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B73 (Tuesday)
- Route
- Battle-Robertsbridge-Mountfield-Battle
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC with Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B74 (Friday)
- Route
- Mountfield-Netherfield- Sedlescombe- Robertsbridge-Burwash- Battle
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC with Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B75 (Wednesday)
- Route
- Mountfield-Netherfield- Battle-St Leonards (Sainsburys)-Westfield-Sedlescombe-Battle
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC's UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B79 (Tuesday)
- Route
- Battle-Ashburnham-Battle
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT) with funding from ESCC's UK Government grant.
- Date of change
- Service number
- B80-B90 (occasional services)
- Route
- Battle Area Days Out Services
- Changes to current service
- No change
- Service provided by
- Battle Area Community Transport (BACT)
- Date of change
- Service number
- U1-U5 (Schooldays
- Route
- Uplands Academy services from John’s Cross, Hurst Green, Hawkhurst, Flimwell, Ticehurst, Burwash and Etchingham
- Changes to current service
- The service U4 and U5 journeys will be removed. Hams Travel will instead provide larger buses on services U1, U2 and U3 to ensure all Uplands Academy pupils are catered for. This change will help to ease traffic congestion outside the school at pick-up and set-down times.
- Service provided by
- Hams Travel on a commercial basis except for services U4 and U5, which operate with funding from ESCC and the help of bus service support grant from UK Government
- Date of change
- 23 August 2026
