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Shop – buy your smartcard online

A Smartcard is your easy way to travel. It's an electronic card that can be loaded with:

  • Money - your e-purse 
  • Tickets

So, you'll never need the right change for the bus or have to fumble for your paper ticket again. There's no cost for your Smartcard, you'll just need to buy the tickets or money you want to put onto the card.

I want to get a Smartcard…

COMING SOON - You will be able to get your first smartcard online soon. Check back here for details. If you want to get a smartcard now, you can get a smartcard today.

I already have a Smartcard…

We’d love to let you top up your Smartcard online but the technology will not be available for around another 18 months. So for the meanwhile, you have several easy options to top up your Smartcard:

  • On your bus – Many of our tickets can be topped up on the bus, just ask your driver for details
  • Travel Centre, Broad Street Mall
  • Reading Transport Head Office, Great Knollys Street Reading, RG1 7HH
  • At over 200 PayPoint retailers in and around Reading and Newbury, where you see this yellow PayPoint sign. Find your nearest PayPoint retailer at www.paypoint.com/locator.htm