As the British public venture further from home and demand for post-covid travel grows, a direct airport coach service from Plymouth has been added back onto the National Express network of scheduled coach services.
The 511 service from Plymouth to Heathrow airport will run once a day each way, seven days a week, via Exteter and Salisbury.
National Express will fully suspend its national network of scheduled coach services with effect from midnight Sunday 5 April 2020.
Chris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach: “We kept a limited coach network running to be able to help those individuals with essential travel needs but it is no longer viable to continue to do this.
The redevelopment of Plymouth Coach Station has reached a major new milestone after coach company National Express signed an agreement to manage the new site.
Heads of terms have now been signed between the UK’s largest coach company and Plymouth City Council, setting out the arrangements for running the new site in the West End of the city centre.
National Express is today (Tuesday 11 February) pledging to meet any extra demand for its services in the South West as the rail disruption looks likely to remain for weeks to come.
In a bid to support the region, the UK’s largest coach operator is adding thousands of extra seats to its services, while yesterday it began running five new express services between Plymouth, Heathrow...
National Express is stepping up its services to the South West in a bid to help stranded rail passengers.
In light of the damage to rail lines in the South West caused by the recent storms, the UK’s largest coach operator has added five new express services to cope with extra demand already seen from the region,
Starting from Monday (10 February), the new express services...
