Combined Train Tickets and Bus Passes

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.

Where can I use PlusBus?

PlusBus is available for 290 rail-served towns and cities across Britain. On the Great Western Railway network PlusBus is available for over 60 locations, including:

See list of PlusBus-served locations on the the GWR network
Banbury Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bodmin Bridgend Brighton Bristol Camborne Cardiff Carmarthen Cheltenham Chichester Chippenham Didcot Dorking Exeter Falmouth Fareham Gatwick Gloucester Hereford Liskeard Maidenhead Neath Newbury Newport Newquay Newton Abbot	Oxford Paignton Penzance Plymouth Portsmouth Port Talbot Reading Redhill Redruth St Austell Salisbury Slough Southampton Stroud Swansea Swindon Taunton Torquay Totnes Truro Weston-super-Mare Weymouth Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worthing Yeovil

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.

Overview of ticket prices in different travel zones
Travel zone	Peak daily	Peak weekly	Peak monthly
Bristol Zone A	£6	£27	£100
Bristol Plus Zones A+B	£11.50	£50	£192
Bristol and Bath Zone A+C	£11.50	£50	£192
Bristol, Bath, Nailsea and Yatton Zones A+B+C	£13.50	£59	£227
Bristol and Weston-super-Mare Zones A+B+D	£13.50	£59	£227
Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare Zones A+B+C+D	£18	£76	£290

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

List of buses that accept the Freedom Travelpass
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 coaches.

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 Johnson’s Excelbus or 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:

£10.50 for adults
£5.25 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:

£18.00 for adults
£9.00 for children

*You can travel before 09:00 on the following services:

08:17 Plymouth - Penzance
08:22 Plymouth - Gunnislake
08:30 Liskeard - Looe

Other popular bus connections:

Didcot Bus Connections

Didcot station is well connected by bus to a number of local towns and villages. Consider completing your journey by public transport.
How to get there:
X2 and 33 Connector: Didcot Parkway – Abingdon/Milton Park

X32 and 33 Connector: Didcot Parkway – Wantage

X32, 33 and 98 Connector: Didcot Parkway – Harwell

X2 Connector: Didcot Parkway – Wallingford*

How to buy: For Wantage and Abingdon you can purchase tickets at the ticket office or via GWR.com by setting Wantage Bus or Abingdon Did Bus as your destination in journey planner. Milton Park and Harwell are within the Plusbus area and you are able to purchase this after selecting your rail journey on GWR.com.

*Tickets for Wallingford are only available to buy from the ticket office.
Mendip Explorer

Perhaps you want to visit the Mendip Hills, head to the historic city of Wells, get in the Glastonbury groove or shop to your hearts content at Clarks Shopping Village in Street.

How to get there: Buses leave Bristol Temple Meads Station heading to Wells, Glastonbury and Street regularly. You can also take the bus from Bath Spa to Wells.

376: Bristol TM - Wells/Glastonbury/Street

174/173: Bath - Wells

How to buy: At the ticket office or via GWR.com by setting Wells Bus, Glastonbury Bus or Street Bus as your destination in journey planner.
Quantock Hills

Perhaps you want to walk the Quantock Hills, head to the beach at Minehead, take the family to Butlins or enjoy a trip on the West Somerset Railway.

How to get there: The 28 bus between Taunton and Minehead provides excellent connectivity to those looking to complete their journey by public transport.

How to buy: At the ticket office or via GWR.com by setting Minehead Bus as your destination in journey planner.

Travel Updates

Travel Updates

Combined train and bus tickets

PlusBus

Where can I use PlusBus?

Freedom Travelpass

Travel zone

Peak daily

Peak weekly

Peak monthly