New and more frequent bus services announced
Following the announcement of a temporary congestion charge in Oxford, Oxford Bus Company are introducing a number of additional and more frequent bus services starting on 9 November 2025.
Want to know when the next bus is coming?
- Identify your bus stop’s unique number. This is usually 10 digits long and easy to find, somewhere above head height on the pole.
- Next, text 84637, giving the 10-digit code for the bus stop you are at.
- In response you will be sent information about the next 5 or 6 buses that are coming, to that stop, and when. Just for confirmation, the name of the bus stop and time will be included.
Simple – and minimising the need for digital displays and an electricity supply.
Jump on the bus more often!
The new Mybus ticket will enable you to take unlimited journeys a day, within Oxfordshire, for £6.50. For people aged 17-19 the cost is only £3.50 – good value for two or more trips. These can be bought on the bus and are valid on virtually all bus services (a couple of the smaller companies have not signed up). Find out more here.
New bus service between Redbridge and Thornhill, via hospitals
Monday 24 February 2025 sees the launch of the new Stagecoach 600 service running every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday (hourly Sunday) from Redbridge Park and Ride to Thornhill: Park and Ride via Science park, Greater Leys, Cowley, Churchill Hospital, JR Hospital and Headington. This is one of the ‘Eastern Arc’ improvements and we hope will reduce congestion at the hospitals.
Bus stops near Oxford Railway Station
Due to health and safety concerns regarding the trees at the forecourt of Oxford Railway Station some bus stops have had to close and / or move.
- Stagecoach services 1 and 14 will not be able to serve the R2 – R4 stops.
- As a result the Stagecoach 1 service will drop off and pick up at a temporary bus stop at the end of the forecourt closer to the exit.
- The Stagecoach 14 service will terminate in Frideswide Square bus stop R8 and depart from Frideswide Square stop R7.
Oxford Bus Company services are also affected.
- 3X Rail Station to Oxford Science Park: Will drop off and pick up at Stop R6.
- 5 Rail Station to Blackbird Leys. Will use temporary bus stops , adjacent to the Said Business School.
- 43/X1 Oxford to Wantage: Will start/ finish in Frideswide Square
- 400 Unaffected and will continue to use Stop R1.
Accessing hospitals by bus
Oxford Bus Company’s helpful webpage sets out which buses go to which hospital. Stagecoach explain theirs here. County Council officers have worked with staff at the Churchill Hospital to move a fine bus shelter to this bus stop in Roosevelt Drive. It is near the hospital’s main entrance, and very near the entrance to the cancer and haematology centre. You can check here when your bus is coming.
Visit Harcourt Arboretum by bus
You can get to Harcourt Arboretum on bus X40 from Oxford (via Iffley Road) or Wallingford; or bus 45 from Cowley, Littlemore, Berinsfield or Abingdon. The stops for the Arboretum are called Baldon Lane.
Visit Cogges Manor Farm by bus
Cogges Manor Farm is easily reached by bus from Oxford, Carterton, Woodstock, and Abingdon. See here for opening dates and times. Use the Oxford Bus Company’s journey planner (which also knows about Stagecoach buses). It is a short and pleasant walk to Cogges along Church Lane from Newland, alighting either at the stop called St Georges Field (just past Church Lane, heading into Witney), or the stop immediately opposite Church Lane (heading away from Witney). Alternatively, it is about 10 minutes walk from Witney Market Square.
Roger French’s blog
Roger French had a notably successful career managing buses in Brighton and Hove. He now writes a ‘blog’, several times a week, about journeys by bus (and sometimes train). His recent posts about services in Oxfordshire include the following:
Oxfordshire’s new bus route bonanza
A review of the X34 from Didcot to Newbury
The revived buses serving Bletchingdon and the Heyfords
The astonishing route 46 from Oxford to Great Milton
First & Last Mile services around Eynsham
