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Combined train and bus tickets

PlusBus

PlusBus is a discounted bus pass that you can buy with your train ticket. It gives you unlimited bus travel, on participating operators’ services, around the whole urban area of the town or city for as little as £2 a day.

If you’ve got a Railcard you’ll get a third off your PlusBus ticket, and children aged between 5 and 15 get half price off.

You can buy PlusBus from ticket offices or GWR.com. Tickets are now also available as an e-ticket, allowing you to add PlusBus to the start and end of your journey when purchased from our website or app.   

Where can I use PlusBus?

PlusBus is available for 290 rail-served towns and cities across Britain. Find out more on the PlusBus website.

Featured Locations;

Reading PlusBus
A Reading PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus travel on nearly all bus services, around the urban area of Reading. This includes travel to/from the University of Reading, the Bulmershe Campus & Woodley.

Torbay PlusBus
A Newton Abbot, Paignton or Torquay PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus travel on participating operators’ services, around the urban area of Newton Abbot and Torbay including Brixham.

Yeovil PlusBus
A Yeovil PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus travel on participating operators’ services, around the urban area of Yeovil town. It is also valid on Bus Service 68 connecting Yeovil Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction Railway Stations.

Didcot PlusBus
A Didcot PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus travel on participating operators’ services, around Didcot and Blewbury, Britwell, Chilton, Harwell, Steventon and Upton. Great if your travelling to Harwell Science Campus.

Freedom Travelpass

Get unlimited travel on all trains and most buses in Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

Available within four zones, you can buy a daily, weekly or monthly ticket for use any time, any day.

Travel zone Peak daily Peak weekly Peak monthly

Bristol

Zone A 		£7.50 £33 £120

Bristol Plus

Zones A+B 		£14.50 £58 £225

Bristol and Bath

Zone A+C 		£14.50 £58 £225

Bristol, Bath, Nailsea and Yatton

Zones A+B+C 		£16.50 £69 £265

Bristol and Weston-super-Mare

Zones A+B+D 		£16.50 £69 £265

Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare

Zones A+B+C+D 		£22 £90 £345

Visit the travelWEST website for a map of where you can travel with the Freedom Travelpass.

Where to buy a Freedom Travelpass?

  • train ticket offices – all tickets
  • bus ticket offices – all tickets
  • train conductors – day and week tickets
  • bus drivers – day tickets

You’ll need a photocard for the monthly pass.

Trains and buses that accept the Freedom Travelpass

Trains

  • Great Western Railway
  • CrossCountry Trains
  • South Western Railway
Buses:
First West of England** Stagecoach West** Stagecoach Southwest**
South Gloucestershire Council (and supported services) ABUS Faresaver Buses
** The Freedom Travelpass can only be issued by these bus operators – and can’t be used on Bristol Airport Flyer buses.

Cotswolds Discoverer

The Cotswolds Discoverer One Day Pass is the perfect and hassle-free way to travel around and explore some of the most scenic parts of the Cotswolds by train and bus on just the one ticket.

Travel on GWR services between:

  • Oxford and Moreton-in-Marsh
  • Swindon and Cheltenham Spa/Ashchurch for Tewkesbury
  • Gloucester and Yate
  • Plus, Transport for Wales & Cross Country train services between Gloucester and Ashchurch for Tewkesbury only

Plus, travel on Stagecoach buses to connect between train stations and the wider Cotswolds.

Find out more at cotswoldsaonb.org.uk

Buy your Cotswolds Discoverer One Day Pass from:

1-day pass costs:
  • £15 for adults
  • £7.50 for children
Rail travel not valid before 8:50 Mondays to Fridays.

*Only with a valid 16-25, Senior, Two Together, HM Forces or Disabled Persons Railcard. Find out about Railcards.

Ride Cornwall

Unlimited travel after 09:00* throughout the week on most of Cornwall’s trains and buses.

Buy from:
  • train station ticket offices
  • train managers/conductors
  • bus drivers
The Ride Cornwall pass costs:
  • £21.00 for adults
  • £10.50 for children

When is my ticket valid?

Available from 09:00 (Monday-Fridays)* and all-day Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays, plus the following additional trains:

*You can travel before 09:00 on the following services:
  • 08:09 Plymouth - Penzance
  • 08:28 Plymouth - Gunnislake
  • 08:16 Liskeard - Looe

Note: when train times change, Ride Cornwall becomes valid on the equivalent service.

*Easements are in place over Christmas and New Year. Check back for exact dates.