St Ives - Lands End no. 7 service - all cancelled on last day of service
1 June 2025

Following the cessation of First Bus's open top Lands End coaster service leaving a gap in services along the north coast of the Penwith peninsula, Go Cornwall Bus and Cornwall Council promised that there would be a replacement service running between St Ives and Lands End at least in the May bank holiday half-term week and in the school summer holidays. See
St Ives Lands End service.

The Go Cornwall Bus no. 7/7A service was advertised as running from 24 May until 1 June. Go Cornwall Bus tweeted this information daily during last week. However, today, 1 June, the last day of the service, all the buses in both directions were cancelled with no explanation of what the reason was - not a bus breakdown, or a driver shortage.

My guess is that Go Cornwall Bus never actually intended to run the service on this Sunday and thought that they had agreed to run it for “half-term week” ending on the Saturday, but a mistake was made on the dates and instead of publishing 31 May as the last day, they put 1 June. Then, today, they suddenly realised that some passengers were expecting the service to run and they did not have any vehicles or drivers scheduled to cover it. Those passengers would have been significantly inconvenienced when they found that there was nothing running all day on this route.

Whether anyone at Go Cornwall Bus or Cornwall Council will admit what went wrong remains to be seen. I will ask them!

Update
2 June 2025
The reply from Cornwall Council to my question to them was, "Your guess was pretty close- there was an error with driver duties for the operation of the Service 7 yesterday. Not all trips were cancelled, 50% of them did operate."