Oxford Bus Company announce service changes

18th February 2025

Please see the below update from the Oxford Bus Company:

We will be making some changes to services in Oxford City and South Oxfordshire from 23rd February 2025.

These changes are to improve connectivity and increase the reliability of our bus network.

3 & 3A

Service 3A will be increased to operate up to every 15 minutes between Oxford City and the Kassam Stadium, combining with service 3 to offer a bus every 7-8 minutes along the Iffley Road. Service 3 will have a minor timetable change to accommodate the revised 3A timetable.

To view the new 3 & 3A timetable, as well as an Iffley Road summary containing both services valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

5A

Service 5A will be revised to operate via the bus gate on Crowell Road instead of Bartholomew Road. This will speed up journeys between Minchery Farm and Templars Square. Buses will serve different stops at Templars Square - stop C towards Oxford City and stop A towards Minchery Farm, both on Between Towns Road.

Additionally, we are permanently withdrawing buses from Herschel Crescent and all journeys will operate via Cowley Road. The timetable has been revised to reflect the quicker journey times on this shorter route.

To view the new 5A timetable, effective 23rd February 2025, please click here.

6

Service 6 will be retimed to improve punctuality on weekdays. The general level of service will remain the same.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

11

Service 11 will be retimed to improve punctuality and offer a more similar service between weekdays and Saturdays. Whilst the timings of most journeys will change, the general level of service will remain the same.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

11X

Service 11X will be replaced by new service 500, providing better connectivity from Car Factory Gate and Cowley to the City Centre - please see below.

45

We will be making some changes to the 45 timetable to improve punctuality on school journeys.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

Pulhams 67

Following customer feedback, service 67 will be retimed to provide a better service for students at King Alfred's School.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

Carousel 275

We will be making some changes to the timetable to improve punctuality. The general level of service will remain the same.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

280 & N280

Service 280 will be replaced by an improved timetable on services 400 & N400 - please see below.

300

Due to increasing congestion along the Abingdon Road and Woodstock Road, service 300 will be retimed to improve punctuality.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

400 & N400

Following the introduction of service 280 in July 2024, we have now been able to get a better understanding of demand since another operator has withdrawn from the corridor. We will be taking the opportunity to simplify the customer offering, and services 400 and N400 will replace services 280 and N280, maintaining the half hourly service to Thame, and providing more buses between Oxford City and Wheatley Services on weekdays.

Buses will operate up to every 10 minutes between Oxford Rail Station and Wheatley Services on weekdays, continuing to Thame up to every 30 minutes. On Saturdays, buses will operate up to every 10 minutes between Oxford Rail Station and Thornhill Park&Ride, continuing up to every 30 minutes to Wheatley and Thame. On Sundays, as now, buses will operate up to every 15 minutes between Oxford Rail Station and Thornhill Park&Ride, continuing up to every 30 minutes to Wheatley and Thame.

Buses will operate via a more consistent route in Wheatley, will all journeys running via London Road in both directions instead of Old London Road. Stopping arrangements in Oxford City Centre will also be simplified. All service 400 journeys towards Thornhill Park&Ride Wheatley and Thame will serve Stop G6 on St Aldates, instead of Turl Street.

To view the new 400 & N400 timetable, effective 23rd February 2025, please click here.

Services to the west of Botley Road Bridge to Seacourt and Harcourt Hill will not change.

500

We are introducing a new frequent service between BMW Car Factory Gate and the city centre, limited stop via the Cowley Road.

Service 500 will call at the following stops:
- BMW Car Factory Gate
- The Longwall (Garsington Road) in both directions
- The Original Swan in both directions (towards Oxford buses will serve the stop after the junction with Between Towns Road)
- Manzil Way in both directions
- The Plain (Cowley Road) in both directions
- Queen's Lane in both directions (stop K1 towards BMW)
- Carfax
- Speedwell Street (set-down)
- Westgate stop E5
- Turl Street stop T2

Service 500 will operate up to every 10 minutes on weekdays, up to every 12 minutes on Saturdays and up to every 15 minutes on Sundays and Public Holidays.

To view the new 500 timetable and route map, effective 23rd February 2025, please click here.

Carousel 850

Service 850 will be revised to operate up to every 15 minutes on weekdays between High Wycombe, Marlow and Henley-on-Thames, with buses continuing up to every 30 minutes to Twyford and Reading. At weekends, buses will operate up to every 30 minutes throughout.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here.

Pulhams H2

From 23rd February 2025, Pulhams will be operating service H2 currently run by Stagecoach, with support from Oxfordshire County Council. Buses will operate up to every 30 minutes Mondays to Saturdays between Witney, Eynsham, Summertown and the JR Hospital, with early morning and late evening journeys extending to and from Carterton. Weekday journeys will also serve Oxford Brookes University's Headington Campus, with stops on Gipsy Lane. 4 journeys will operate in each direction on Sundays as current.

For the new timetable, valid from 23rd February 2025, please click here, and for a route map, click here.