Changes to school buses for 2025/26
11 months ago
We’ve been working hard with all the schools around Reading and the local area to ensure that buses for schools are as perfect as possible to get your children to and from their lessons. We’ve aligned our timetables to better reflect where students live and how they travel to school. To help this, we’re making changes to some of our school routes as well as introducing a new route to help offer additional capacity, making it easier for students to travel to and from school.
school routes
Details of changes to each of our school routes can be found in the table below. Full details of our school routes can be found in our guide here.
| route | changes |
| 80 | Now extended to Bulmershe school running via Whiteknights Road and Lower Earley following the Earley Gate bus stop. The rest of the route is unchanged. Departure times have also been changed to better reflect traffic and customer numbers. |
| 81, 82, 83 | Minor changes to departure times to better reflect traffic and customer numbers. |
| 84 | A minor change to the route through Caversham Park Village, with buses now running via Caversham Park Road instead of Lowfield Road. |
| 85, 86, 87 | Minor changes to departure times to better reflect traffic and customer numbers. |
| 88 | This route will now start and end at Tilehurst, running along Oxford Road to Pond House where it will follow its usual route. It will no longer serve Central Reading or Oxford Road. |
| 89 | This route will now start and end in Central Reading, running along Oxford Road, Norcot Road and Kentwood Hill before returning to its usual route from Tilehurst Station. It will no longer serve stops between Kentwood Circle and Cold Store. |
| 90 | Minor changes to departure times to better reflect traffic and customer numbers. |
| 91 | This route has been retimed to match the new school day times and on Friday afternoons will now serve Central Reading |
| 93 | No changes |
new school route for Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood and Shinfield
We’re also introducing a brand-new school route numbered 92, which can be used for multiple schools.
In the morning, this bus starts at Mereoak Park & Ride, before running via Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood, Shinfield and Royal Berks Hospital, serving Reading School, Kendrick School, St Joseph’s College and The Abbey school before continuing on to Central Reading, St Mary’s Butts.
In the afternoon, this bus starts from Reading Station, before heading towards Royal Berks Hospital, Shinfield, Spencers Wood, Three Mile Cross, ending at Mereoak Park & Ride.
Timetables and a route map can be found in the individual school guides on our school buses page here, or in our full booklet detailed below.
school booklet
A full guide to our school buses as well as details of the best buses to catch to and from your school can be viewed here. A printed version of this book can be picked up from our bus shop at the Broad Street Mall in Reading.