BUSES
Dorset For You website – buses www.dorsetforyou.com/travel-dorset/bus
A new list of services on which concessionary passes may be used before 9.30 on weekdays can be accessed in a PDF file on the DCC webpage
https://www.dorsetforyou.com/travel-dorset/bus/national-bus-pass-concessionary-travel
Traveline http://traveline.info
First Buses www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/dorset
Damory Bus Company www.damory.co.uk
Stagecoach South West www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south-west#
Dorset Community Transport ectcharity.co.uk/services/areas/dorset
Wilts and Dorset Bus Company www.morebus.co.uk/rural-routes.shtml
Apps for Android Smartphones:
Apps for iPhone:
Next Bus – this appears to be discontinued as of 2018, please get in touch if you know of an iPhone app
To Find Bus Times using a mobile phone (not smartphone):
Text the bus stop number (printed on the bus stop sign) to 84268. This will cost you 25p plus the normal cost of a text from your phone.
Use your browser to go to www.nextbuses.mobi/ and search by postcode, street & town or a stop name & town.
WATAG is now a member of bususers.org
TRAINS
Dorset For You website – trains www.dorsetforyou.com/travel-dorset/rail
National Rail Travel Planner www.nationalrail.co.uk
South Western Railway www.southwesternrailway.com/
Great Western Trains https://www.gwr.com/
Traveline http://traveline.info
GENERAL
Transport Direct – all forms travel planner http://www.transportdirect.info (discontinued by government)
TravelWatch SouthWest – http://travelwatchsouthwest.org/
TravelWatch SouthWest (TWSW) is a social enterprise company which acts as an advocate for passengers to lobby for the improvement of public transport in the region and works closely with local authorities, business organisations, partnerships and other stakeholder groups. With the dissolution of the former Rail Passengers Committee for Western England in July 2005, TWSW is the representative body for public transport users throughout the South West of England.