Tuesday 11th November 2025 It's been a while since I looked into the veracity of media reporting but recent positive headlines extolling the completion of a 'Bus Rapid Transit' scheme on the A33 caught my eye, so while I was in Reading last Thursday I took a ride to find out more. The Reading Chronicle... Continue Reading →
Saturday 8th November 2025 Earlier in the year I reported on interesting developments in the Thames Valley bus network some of which arose following tender contracts won by Go-Ahead owned Carousel Buses but also some commercial expansion by the company including the restoration of a link between Maidenhead and Reading via Twyford (route 127). Reading... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 30th July 2024 As explained in a recent blog about Arriva’s exit from High Wycombe (enacted at the weekend), Carousel Buses and Reading Buses began providing their competitive replacement bus routes between Henley and Reading on Sunday. Carousel has replicated Arriva's previous routes 800 and 850, each on an hourly frequency between High Wycombe,... Continue Reading →
Thursday 15th February 2024 Reading Buses is no stranger to investing in smart new buses and following the introduction of seven pristine Enviro400s on the newly branded Windsor Express routes 702 (London Line) and 703 (Flightline) last year, it’s now the turn of Lion branded routes 4/X4 between Reading and Bracknell to receive an upgrade.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 9th January 2024 It was good to see Reading Borough Council kicking off the new year last Tuesday with funding for a bus route to serve the new Reading Green Park station which opened last May Perhaps not surprisingly Reading Buses won the tender to run what is an extension of hourly route 9... Continue Reading →
Thursday 21st December 2023 Newbury & District (part of the Reading Buses suite of bus operations) has recently introduced three new Volvo B8R Plaxton Panther 3 coaches on the fledgling flightline branded route between Basingstoke, Frimley, Camberley, Bagshot and Heathrow Airport, so I made a return visit last Saturday to see how the route was... Continue Reading →
Saturday 12th August 2023 It’s up there with Nottingham City Transport as one of the UK’s top bus companies. Reading Buses has long been admired for offering a high quality bus service with first class marketing with active support from a pro public transport Reading Borough Council, which also owns the business. It’s also benefitted... Continue Reading →
Saturday 5th August 2023 After our enjoyable trip from Hertford to Guildford the Retracing Green Line Routes Gang (RGLRG) recently reassembled for another cross London jaunt, this time reliving the wonderful RF, RC and RCL operated 705 which in the network’s heyday linked Sevenoaks in Kent with Windsor in Berkshire. The half-hourly 705 had a... Continue Reading →
Thursday 27th January 2022 Continuing my 2022 odyssey around England’s mid sized towns to check out their public transport offering brought me to the post war new town of Bracknell in the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire. It's surrounded by (clockwise) Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor, Egham, Woking, Camberley, Wokingham and Reading. 1998 saw a local government... Continue Reading →
Thursday 14th November 2019 It's becoming notable how many new and improved bus routes are being introduced with financial support from Heathrow Airport offering better connections for staff and airline travellers. Anyone would think there's a third runway in the offing. I wrote about First Bus's new RailAir link from Guildford to Heathrow when it... Continue Reading →
Saturday 2nd November 2019 Reading Buses owned Courtney Buses are making significant changes to bus services for the Windsor to Heathrow corridor this weekend. The improved timetable and revamp includes a smart new branding with buses sporting an updated Thames Valley livery for colour coded routes. I travelled over to the eastern end of what we... Continue Reading →
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