Thursday 7th August 2025 Photo credit: Emma West A much welcome upgrade to the bus route between Reading and Oxford launched this week. Not only has the timetable for Thames Travel’s River Rapids branded route X40 been improved from half hourly to every 20 minutes with new late night journeys added on Fridays and Saturdays... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 8th August 2023 Here’s some good news from Thames Travel, the sister company to Oxford Bus. Its bus routes between Didcot and Harwell Campus were rejigged from 23rd July to include a new hourly service X34 linking both locations with Newbury travelling non-stop down the A34. I took a ride last Tuesday to check... Continue Reading →
Thursday 29th December 2022 I wrote about my journey on Britain's shortest bus route back in August. That was Vectare's route 30 introduced in January 2022 between St Margaret's Hospital, Epping and Coopersale with a four minute end-to-end journey time. At that time a number of blog readers kindly suggested more contenders for a top... Continue Reading →
Thursday 3rd February 2022 I’d been hearing encouraging news about the way the business and technology park known as Milton Park, near Didcot, is embracing public transport so took a ride out there one day last month to see what’s happening. Situated two-and-a-half miles west of Didcot Parkway railway station, Milton Park is one of... Continue Reading →
Friday 11th September 2020 The last time Oxfordshire funded a bus service was July 2016. That month the County Council scrapped its circa £4 million annual bus subsidy budget abandoning 118 tendered bus contracts to the fate of the commercial market - and turned 34 years of deregulation on its head. Deregulation, you my recall,... Continue Reading →
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