Buy PLUSBUS online

PLUSBUS tickets can now be purchased with train tickets online for the first time. www.QJump.co.uk and www.tpexpress.co.uk are two of Britain's largest online retailers of train tickets.

Jonathan Radley, Commercial Director of Journey Solutions (the bus and rail industry partnership behind PLUSBUS), said: "Online sale of PLUSBUS tickets is an exciting and very important step forward in our retail strategy. For the first time in Britain, public transport users can buy tickets for their entire door-to-door journey by train and bus from one website."

PLUSBUS tickets bought online can be posted to the customer, or collected from a nominated rail station self-service vending machine before starting the journey.

Other online train ticket retailers, such as www.thetrainline.com are due to start selling PLUSBUS tickets online by the end of June 2009.

Issued: 1 June 2009

Further expansion of PLUSBUS due in May

From Sunday 17 May 2009, PLUSBUS (Britain's award-winning integrated train to bus ticketing system) will be available to five more rail-served towns and three existing PLUSBUS destinations in Scotland will start offering season tickets to rail commuters for the first time. PLUSBUS will then be available to 265 rail-served towns and cities across Britain, with season tickets available to over 80% of them

New PLUSBUS destinations:
Chichester, Corby, East Grinstead, Loughborough and Skegness.

Existing PLUSBUS destinations introducing season tickets:
Ayr, Dumfries and Kilmarnock.

Jonathan Radley, Commercial Director of Journey Solutions (the bus and train industry partnership behind PLUSBUS), said: "PLUSBUS now provides integrated ticketing for over half of the population of Britain. It means that rail travellers can buy tickets for their entire journey by train and bus in one convenient transaction at the rail station and also cut the cost of their journey."

For details of new PLUSBUS destinations and season ticket additions - see the accompanying table (List of new destinations & season ticket additions from Sunday 17 May 2009)

Other changes to PLUSBUS:
The ticket prices of eighteen existing PLUSBUS destinations will be revised.

Issued: 2 April 2008