about PLUSBUS

 

PLUSBUS is a cheap travelcard that you buy with your train ticket at any station ticket office, by 'phone or online. It gives you bus and tram travel to and from the rail station and around the whole urban area of town that's at the start &/or end of your train journey. 

PLUSBUS is accepted for travel on services of over 200 bus companies across Britain and on trams in Birmingham, Blackpool, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wolverhampton. 

PLUSBUS prices start from £1.50 a day with our ONLINE OFFER in June and July.

 

View map of Britain showing PLUSBUS served towns & our list for Northern Ireland.

Advantages of PLUSBUS

save time - buy tickets for your complete door-to-door journey
great value - exclusive, discount price bus travel
save money - Railcard holders get 33% off
go anywhere - bus & tram travel around the whole of urban area of town
more flexible - travel on most / all services

reduce hassle - no need to keep change for exact fare buses 

 

Great value from just £1.50 a day

PLUSBUS can save you money and is easier than buying separate fares.     

Buy your train and bus tickets together - pay with cash, a debit or credit card.

For sample PLUSBUS fares.

Children (under 16 years) pay half  the adult PLUSBUS day price.

Child seasons are available for some towns - discount rates vary.

Railcard holders get 33% off normal adult PLUSBUS day ticket prices.

Any time, anywhere

It's easy to know where you can go with PLUSBUS. There's just one travel zone covering

the whole urban area of town. You can travel as much as you like on participating buses

and trams within the zone.

To view each towns travel zone map, go to towns, fares & maps.

There are no time restrictions on when you can use a PLUSBUS ticket.

It's valid from the first service to the last service (up to mid-night on the valid date).

Easy to buy at station

Ask for PLUSBUS when buying your train tickets at:-

  -  any National Rail station ticket office,

  - by calling: 08457 000 125 or 0191 387 1 387

    These lines are for ticket purchase only, sorry no enquires.

 

Self-service ticket vending machines at South West Trains stations are now offering

PLUSBUS day tickets - look out for the "Add BASKET & buy +BUS" text on-screen.

Buy online too

Buy PLUSBUS day tickets online with train tickets from most rail websites.  

PLUSBUS can be bought with all "advance" & "walk-up" train tickets, including:

Single, Day Return and Period Return tickets.

With Period Return train tickets you'll need to buy two PLUSBUS day tickets. 

One dated for your outward train journey and a second dated for your return trip. 

 

To start your journey by bus, please buy your train and PLUSBUS tickets in advance by

'phone or online and have them posted to you (or delivered by next-day courier).

Season tickets for commuters

Available for 7 consecutive days, 1-month, 3-months and a whole year, to match the

validity of the most popular rail season tickets. You can only buy a PLUSBUS season

ticket, if you also buy (or already have) a valid rail season ticket. Both season tickets

should expire on the same date.

 

Do you drive to the rail station and park at the station car park? See how much money

you could save at cheapercommuting.com

 


Sorry, you cannot buy PLUSBUS if you're making a local train journey between two stations within the same PLUSBUS travel zone or city-wide region (Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, West Midlands or West Yorkshire).

 

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Sample destinations & PLUSBUS prices 

PLUSBUS is   nearly  always cheaper then the price you'd pay for a days' bus pass bought from the main bus company in town.

 

Prices from £1.50 a day with our ONLINE OFFER in June & July !

 

Below is a sample of our normal adult PLUSBUS ticket prices:-

destinations    adult day ticket      7-day season    1-month season 

Aberdeen

£3 £16 £58

Basingstoke

£3 £11 £40

Bath Spa

£3.50 £15.80 £53.70

Birmingham

£2.70 no seasons no seasons

Bournemouth

£3 £14 £40

Bradford

£3 £15 £58

Brighton

£2 £10 £35

Bristol

£3.50 £15.80 £53.70

Cambridge

£3 £11 £40

Cardiff

£2.80 £11 £42

Chelmsford

£4.20 £16.10 £58.80

Coventry

£2.70 no seasons no seasons

Derby

£3 £12 £40

Durham

£2.30 £11.50 £45

Edinburgh

£3 no seasons no seasons

Exeter

£2.50 £9 £30

Glasgow

£3.20 £12.50  £48

Guildford

£3 £14 £46

Hatfield

£2.50 £11 £42.30

Hull

£3.10 £7.70 £28.50

Ipswich

£3 £15 £60

Leeds

£3 £15 £58

Leicester

£3 £12 £35

Liverpool

£3.20 £12 £46

Luton

£2.50 £11 £38.50

Manchester

£3.50 £12.70 £47.60

Milton Keynes

£2.20 £10 £35

Newcastle-u-Tyne

£2.60 £11.50 £46

Norwich

£3 £15 £60

Nottingham

£3.70 no seasons no seasons

Oxford

£3.70  £15 £40

Peterborough

£3 £11 £40

Plymouth

£3.20 £14 £45

Portsmouth

£2.70 £11.50 £40

Reading

£3 £14 £50

Sheffield

£3.50 £15 £57

Slough

£3 £12 £48

Southampton

£2.30 £11 £37

Southend

£3

£10.90

£39.60

Stoke-on-Trent

£3

£12

£40

Swansea

£2.50 £12 £46

Swindon

£3 £12 £40

Wolverhampton

£2.70 no seasons no seasons

Worcester

£3 £9.50 £35

York

£3 £12 £40

 

To view all PLUSBUS ticket prices for other towns, go to  towns, fares & maps or to the homepage and type the town name into the 'Search box' (& click on 'GO'). Sorry, PLUSBUS is not available for London.

 

 Railcard users get 33% off

   bus travel to & from the train station

Yes it's true! A Railcard gives you 33% off the price of bus (and tram) travel to and from the train station and around the whole urban area of town, using a PLUSBUS day ticket. 

example: unlimited bus travel around Bristol £3.50 adult price

                                                                     £2.30 with suitable Railcard

                                                 YOU SAVE: £1.20

 

Holders of the following national Railcards get 33% off PLUSBUS day ticket prices:-

  • 16-25 Railcard
  • Disabled Persons Railcard
  • Family & Friends Railcard (sorry, online purchase of PLUSBUS is not available with this Railcard)  
  • HM Forces Railcard
  • Network Railcard (or Gold Card equivalent) 
  • Senior Railcard.

The Railcard discount has some restrictions.

 

Wherever you're going - to visit family, friends or for a weekend away, buy PLUSBUS with your train ticket.

Ask for PLUSBUS when buying your train tickets and show your Railcard to the ticket office clerk at the station (or select the 'Railcard' box when buying tickets online). Getteing 33% off is that easy! 

 


Ten facts about PLUSBUS. There's lots of good reasons to get the bus.

 

PLUSBUS is brought to you by the Journey Solutions partnership & is funded by participating operators.

 

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Updated: 03/05/2012. Normal ticket prices are valid from 02/01/2012 until 19/05/2012. Online Offer ticket prices are valid from 01/06/2012 until 31/07/2012.