Schooldays, Bank Holidays & timetables
Easter Monday is a Bank Holiday but also a schoolday in Fife...
With Easter being late this year, Fife schools are are due to reopen on Monday 21st April, which is also the Easter Monday Bank Holiday - so we have the concept of a day which is an official holiday but one where teachers and students are working in school.
And it follows that bus drivers are also working like it’s a normal day and bus timetables, in Fife, follow the Schoolday timetable.
To add to the confusion, the next Bank Holiday - Monday 5th May - is a school holiday, and the bus timetable used in Fife is a SATURDAY timetable.
Monday 5th May is the ONLY Bank Holiday where buses in Fife have a special timetable, on other Bank Holidays the buses follow either a Schoolday or a Weekday timetable as appropriate.
The thing to watch out for on 5th May is that the 95 timetable has some buses travelling through Crail EARLIER than they do on a weekday - so what might have started out as a bit of a holiday for bus drivers, ends up with some of them starting earlier…
School terms are different in different Council areas, and that means that buses follow different timetables in different areas, and you may find that buses that cross into different council areas don’t follow the timetable you expect.
In 2024, for example, the May Day holiday 65 bus between St Andrews and Perth followed a weekday timetable - because the bus was operated out of Perth and their bus drivers expected to follow a Perth & Kinross schoolday timetable on that day. But in 2025 the 65 on Monday 5th May will follow a SATURDAY timetable because it’s now operated by drivers from St Andrews who expect to follow the Fife pattern of it being a “special” holiday with that Saturday timetable…
It always pays to check which timetable your bus will follow on a day that might be considered to be a holiday…
95 Crail Bus