I AM seeking information about more bus services in Oxfordshire.

Two routes that no longer run are the 30 and X30 services, which I’m sure some readers will remember. Both these routes went between Oxford and Abingdon via Peachcroft, and I’d like to ask if anyone know how they differed. A former marketing manager of Stagecoach in Oxfordshire thinks one might have served Preston Road but this is unconfirmed so I’ll be very grateful if anyone can provide me with any information on the subject.

For a while the number 50 service, which today goes between Stratford-upon-Avon, Shipston-on-Stour and Chipping Norton, used to run all the way to Oxford. In those days it ran every hour Mondays to Saturdays, plus four times a day on Sundays, whereas today it only goes six times a day. Before that the X50 linked Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon three times a day but the problem with that service was it centred solely on tourist traffic, which is why they changed it. There are two questions I’d like to ask. When the service became the 50, were the four Sunday journeys still numbered X50 when the service was operated by Stagecoach?

Why was the service called the X50 if there was no 50?

The 32 service used to have two variants, numbered 32A and 32B. I know they existed in 1999 and in 2001 but on a list of services produced at the beginning of 2001, there is no mention of either of these services. I’d therefore be grateful if someone could tell me if they were withdrawn for a while.

ALEXANDER EDWARDS

2 Temple Village

Midlothian

Scotland