National Express

The main stations covered by National Express’s buses include:

• Canterbury Bus Station
• Scarborough Train Station
• Wembley First Way
• Cambridge Trumpington P R
• Penrhyn Bay
• Cheltenham Arle Court
• Tresillian
• Nottingham University
• Corsham
• Chatham Dock Rd
• Walworth Bus Stop
• Taunton
• Colchester
• New Cross Gate Station
• Margate
• Darlington
• Loughborough
• Gloucester Longlevens
• Bow Bus Stop
• Newent
• Malton
• Southsea
• Great Yarmouth Regent Rd
• Plymouth Armada
• Exeter Sidwell
• Berwick upon Tweed
• Liverpool University
• Newtown Powys
• Rochdale
• Aberystwyth Train
• Bristol Airport
• Bickington
• Lancaster
• Cardiff University
• Cardiff Coach Station
• Haverfordwest
• Loughborough University
• Ledbury
• Bournemouth Bus Station
• Stockton on Tees
• Nottingham North
• Falmouth
• Exeter
• North Petherton
• Hull Fiveways
• Wolverhampton
• Bolton Astley Bridge
• Westbourne
• Cardiff Sophia Gardens
• Waterloo Bus Stop
• Llanidloes
• Abergele Water Street
• Sheffield Meadowhall
• The Hard Interchange
• Ramsgate Dumpton Park
• Old Swan Bus Stop
• Victoria Bus Station
• Middlesbrough
• Cornwall Grampound
• Newbury Wharf Rd
• Northampton London Road A508
• York
• Ringwood
• Penzance
• Lewisham Bus Stop
• Cardiff University
• Cardiff Castle Street
• Elephant and Castle Bus Stop
• Mile End Railway Station
• Chester
• MAN Airport Bus Stop
• Totnes
• Bristol White Tree
• Oxford Sandhills
• Standon
• Portsmouth International Port
• Heathrow Airport T5
• Newquay
• Brighton Preston Park
• Portslade
• Nottingham Broadmarsh Bus Station
• University of East Anglia
• Luton Challney near Travelodge
• Westgate on Sea
• Colchester Coach
• Stroud
• Birmingham Bearwood
• Blackburn Bus Station
• Huddersfield Railway St
• Cliftonville Eastern Esplanade
• South Molton
• Chepstow
• Llandudno
• Edinburgh Bus Station
• Scunthorpe
• Penkridge
• Newcastle Upon Tyne Bus Station
• Ipswich
• Mildenhall
• Sheffield Bus Station
• Fareham
• Telford
• St Peters
• Wroughton High Street
• Belfast Stena Line Terminal
• Norwich Central
• Dorchester
• St Johns Wood Bus Stop
• Swansea University
• Luton
• Finchley Road Bus Stop CL
• Accrington Coach
• Fremington
• Heathrow Airport T5
• Liverpool One Bus Stop
• Hickstead
• Trowbridge
• Bournemouth University
• Rugby
• Ilfracombe
• Gatwick North Terminal
• Bristol University Queens Road
• Torquay
• Wandsworth Bus Stop
• Glasgow Bus Station
• Tenby
• Worthing
• Liverpool Street Station
• Birchington
• St Austell
• Blackpool Central
• Hayle
• Finchley Road and Frognal
• Warwick Parkway Rail
• Guildford
• Bradford Central
• Barnstaple Bus Station
• Mansfield Portland College
• High Wycombe Coachway
• Minehead Bancks St
• Acle
• Railway Approach
• Carmarthen
• Humber Bridge South Side
• Ramsgate
• Walsall
• Grimsby Osborne Street
• Gloucester Bus Station
• Rudloe
• Bristol Black Boy Hill
• Portsmouth University
• Broadstairs
• Heathrow Airport T2 and T3
• Whitstable
• Swansea
• Bluewater Shopping Centre
• Brighton Withdean Park
• Clifton Down Central Train
• Eltham Bus Stop
• Preston Circus Stop X
• New Cross Gate Railway Station
• Shoreham by Sea
• Hartlepool
• Cross Hands
• Billingham
• Brighton Pool Valley Coach
• Reading Bagnall Way
• Yelland
• Windsor High St
• Wellington Somerset
• Landrake
• Hempstead Gillingham Kent
• Botanic Park Bus Stop
• The Bassets
• Liskeard
• Cirencester
• London Luton Airport
• Okehampton Jacobs Pool
• Bath Bus Station
• Coventry Pool Meadow
• Belfast Europe Bus Centre
• Hull Paragon Interchange
• Bath London Rd Bus Stop
• Welshpool
• Port Talbot
• Paddington Railway Station
• Brighton Withdean Park
• Tideford
• Mansfield Bus Station
• Cricklade
• Burnley Bus Station
• New Moston Bus Stop
• Hayle St Erth
• Poole Dorset
• Stoke on Trent Hanley
• Halifax
• Bow Bus Stop
• Lostwithiel
• Wareham
• St Clears
• Nantwich
• Birkenhead
• Steynton for Milford Haven
• Rhos on Sea Llandrillo yn Rhos
• London Aldgate
• Brighton Patcham Bus Stop
• Royal Wootton Bassett High Street
• Marble Arch Park Lane
• Salisbury
• Whitechapel Bus Stop
• Northampton Far Cotton
• Truro
• Swansea University Bay Campus
• Whitechapel Bus Stop
• Liskeard East Taphouse
• Lewknor Turn M40 J6
• Ross on Wye
• Southampton Coach
• Cheltenham Royal Well
• Penzance Crowlas
• Theale Mereoak Lane Park Ride
• Chadderton
• Weston super Mare Coach
• Tewkesbury
• Canterbury Keynes College
• Chesterfield
• Southwick West Sussex
• Pembroke Dock
• Hitchin Queen St
• Lincoln
• Newmarket
• Dover City Centre
• Oxford Sandhills
• Llanelli
• Paignton Bus Stop
• Ryde George St
• Dewsbury
• Pool for Cornwall College
• Marks Tey
• Birmingham Bearwood
• Hatfield
• Northampton Town Centre
• Hessle
• Dudley
• Cambridge Parkside
• Cardiff Gabalfa Interchange
• Leeds University
• Cardiff Gabalfa Interchange
• Durham
• Shepton Mallet
• Streatham Bus Stop
• Devizes
• Tadcaster
• Corse Staunton
• Camborne
• Brighton Preston Circus
• Hereford
• St Margarets Bus Station
• Leeds Bus Station
• North Petherton
• Shoreditch Bus Stop
• Carlisle
• Bracknell
• Victoria Rail to Airports
• University of West England
• Hayle Copperhouse
• Southwark Street Bus Stop
• Bristol Bus Station
• Heathrow Airport T4
• Stratford City Bus Station
• Cheltenham Racecourse
• Bath London Rd
• Minehead Butlins
• London Stansted Airport Bus
• Corfe Castle
• Braunton
• Birmingham Airport
• Hull City Centre
• Ascot Heatherwood Hospital
• Redruth
• Edge Lane Drive Bus Stop
• Johnston
• Helston
• Preston Bus Station
• Bridgwater Bus Station
• Doncaster Central Train Station
• Weymouth
• Miles Platting Bus Station
• Nottingham Coach S9
• University of Southampton
• Liverpool University
• Failsworth
• Shrewsbury
• Pickering Eastgate
• Chippenham Sainsburys
• Windsor Legoland
• Cliftonville
• Alnwick
• Derby Bus Station
• University of West England
• Barnsley Bus Station
• Reading Train Station
• Maidstone King St
• Cheltenham Charlton Kings
• Edge Lane Drive Bus Stop
• Basingstoke
• Whitby
• Ipswich Cricketers PH
• Huddersfield Bus Station
• Hemel Hempstead
• Belfast Port
• Sunderland
• Bethnal Green Bus Stop
• Exeter Bus Station
• Bolton Central
• Marble Arch for Stansted
• Swindon Central
• Llandudno Junction
• Swindon Queens Drive
• Birmingham Coach
• Sainsburys Local
• Stevenage
• Frome
• Powys Llandinam
• Kilgetty
• Northdown Park
• Poole Branksome Train
• Hammersmith Bus Stop
• Brighton Old Steine
• Thornhill Park and Ride
• Newark on Trent
• Folkestone
• Chippenham
• Taunton Williton
• Gorseinon
• Belfast Europe Bus Centre
• Leicester Braunstone
• Bodmin
• Brixham
• Newton Abbot
• Swindon Freshbrook
• Pembroke
• 628 Oldham Rd
• Gloucester Green Bus Station
• Stratford City Bus Stop
• Parkstone
• Neyland
• Great Yarmouth
• Finchley Road Stop CH
• Penrith
• Slough Wellington St
• Milton Keynes Coachway
• Bristol Airport
• Chalford
• Oldham
• Penryn
• Bridgend
• London Marble Arch
• Cleethorpes
• Melksham
• Winchester
• Baker Street Gloucester Place
• Stratford upon Avon
• St Blazey
• Thetford
• Peterborough
• Aberystwyth University
• Sells Green
• Sheffield Greenhill
• Swindon Coate Water
• South Wales Riverfront Theatre
• Lancing
• Golders Green Bus Stop
• Colwyn Bay
• Manchester Bus Station
• Watchet Train
• Mansfield Quaker Way St
• Brighton Hove Street Bus Stop
• Liverpool St Railway Station
• Wakefield Charlesworth Way
• London Gatwick Airport South
• Cardiff Castle Street
• Nottingham Trent University
• Ravenshead
• Braintree
• Tiverton
• Mirfield
• St Blazey Gate
• Darwen

National Express buses ply a number of routes and here is the list of some of the most popular ones:

• London - Edinburgh
• London - Brighton
• London - Manchester
• Manchester - London
• Leeds - London
• Edinburgh - London
• London - Glasgow
• Glasgow - London
• London - Oxford
• Glasgow - Edinburgh
• London - Liverpool
• Edinburgh - Glasgow
• London - Cambridge
• London - Birmingham
• London - Bath
• London - Bristol
• Birmingham - London
• London - Leeds
• Oxford - London
• London - Cardiff
• Cambridge - London
• Brighton - London
• Bristol - London
• Liverpool - London
• Manchester - Liverpool
• Leeds - Manchester
• Cardiff - London
• Liverpool - Manchester
• Bristol - Cardiff
• London - Southampton
• Manchester - Leeds
• Cardiff - Bristol
• London - York
• London - Bournemouth
• Birmingham - Manchester
• Belfast - Manchester
• Leeds - York
• Southampton - London
• Manchester - Edinburgh
• Glasgow - Manchester
• York - Leeds
• Manchester - Birmingham
• Bath - London
• Bournemouth - London
• London - Portsmouth
• York - London
• Edinburgh - Manchester
• London - Canterbury
• London - Belfast
• Manchester - Glasgow
• London - Dover
• Plymouth - London
• Manchester - York
• Belfast - London
• Manchester - Blackpool
• London - Plymouth
• Leeds - Glasgow
• Leeds - Edinburgh
• Leeds - Birmingham
• Portsmouth - London
• Glasgow - Liverpool
• Birmingham - Edinburgh
• Birmingham - Liverpool
• Canterbury - London
• Birmingham - Leeds
• Leeds - Liverpool
• Glasgow - Birmingham
• Birmingham - Bristol
• Bristol - Manchester
• Bristol - Birmingham
• Plymouth - Bristol
• Oxford - Cambridge
• Southampton - Bournemouth
• Birmingham - Cardiff
• Cardiff - Birmingham
• Liverpool - Birmingham
• Cardiff - Glasgow
• Liverpool - Leeds
• London - Blackpool
• Oxford - Birmingham
• Birmingham - Oxford
• Manchester - Bristol
• Birmingham - Glasgow
• Cardiff - Manchester
• Manchester - Cardiff
• York - Manchester
• Glasgow - Cardiff
• Edinburgh - Liverpool
• Edinburgh - Birmingham
• Chester - London
• Bournemouth - Southampton
• London - Chester
• Southampton - Portsmouth
• Dover - London
• Blackpool - Manchester
• Glasgow - Leeds
• Bristol - Plymouth
• Portsmouth - Southampton
• Edinburgh - Leeds
• Southampton - Manchester

One of the best things about bus travel is that you can almost tailor-make your trip adjusting it to your requirements for privacy and comfort. Different classes and types of buses cater to the different needs of travellers. The cheapest trips are normally offered by standard-class buses. They may be called local, express or ordinary. These are a good choice for shorter trips. Sleepers or VIP coaches are good both for longer and overnight trips. They may offer berths or wide soft reclining seats, sometimes with built-in massage options, blankets, soft drinks, and snacks, or more substantial meals on board or during toilet or refuelling stops. Travelling by night buses allows you to save on a hotel room, but to ensure the most comfortable ride do choose the class of your bus wisely. Prices always depend on the distance you ride and the type of coach. For some, even shorter trips, it is worth investing some extra money and buying a seat on a VIP bus as it can save you twice as much time as you spend travelling by an ordinary bus.

Pros of Bus Travel

• Bus is the best choice to get to destinations that are not connected by rail or planes. The network of buses often covers almost the whole country, and their routes are well and long-established.
• Opposite to air travel and sometimes rail travel, taking a bus does not require arriving at the bus station much in advance. Check-in, even on international routes, does not take much time. Luggage allowances are usually very traveller-friendly, and the fee for extra luggage, if limits are set, is normally not very high.
• Bus tickets can be more affordable compared to air or fast train tickets. There is always a choice of ticket classes for all pockets. Cheaper standard options may be a bit slow and do not offer top comfort, but anyway acceptable and bring you to your destination. On longer routes, toilets or toilet stops as well as snacks, water, and sometimes toiletries and blankets are almost always included in the price.
• If you are ready to spend more, some VIP coaches offer seating comparable to business class on a plane with wide soft reclining seats, blankets, fewer passengers, and many other perks to make your trip a pleasant journey.

Cons of Bus Travel

• Newer intercity bus terminals are very often located out of the city close to bigger highways to allow buses to avoid city congestion. Unfortunately, it may create extra challenges for travellers, too. Getting to such a terminal may be a problem as in some destinations there are restrictions on vehicles allowed to enter the terminal, and you will have to use special carriers to get there. This results in higher costs as prices may be inflated. Also do calculate extra time if you are travelling during rush hours, especially if you are not familiar with the traffic situation at your starting point.
• Buses are probably the means of transport which runs out of schedule more often than trains or planes. They are heavily dependent on the road situation which sometimes can be unpredictable – accidents, road construction works, detours, etc. This is especially true for travels during weekends, high season, or national holidays. Do keep this in mind and do not plan tight connections.
• Travelling on certain routes or during the most popular periods may require advanced booking. Bear in mind that it is not always possible to show up at the bus station and hop on the next bus – tickets may well be all sold out, so organize your trip accordingly.