How can I work out the price of a UK bus fare online?

9/5/2014 5:00:07 PM

if at any point you are in Northern Ireland, Translink has all of their fares on their website, so you know in advance exactly how much a journey will cost – http://www.translink.co.uk/Fares/

9/5/2014 2:08:07 PM

An option is Busbud. They actually post occasionally on this site.

For example, you can use it to see prices across a week for a trip from London to Manchester and it will show fares from multiple companies, giving you a comparison and choice.

So I would argue there are obvious choices, once you know about them 😉

12/17/2014 10:56:06 PM

I would add to Liam’s excellent answer above:

http://www.transportdirect.info/, a Government funded transport website, sometimes has fare information for local bus services.

You can work out an arbitarily complex journey and click “Tickets/Costs” and it will attempt to give you an idea of the costs. If it can’t, it will point you towards a relevant website that does operated by the bus company.

EDIT: Now closed, which is unfortunate.

9/6/2014 12:01:42 AM

Since privatisation in the 80s/90s UK bus services are run by a vastly complicated array of private companies with overlapping and disparate jurisdictions, journeys, fares and services.

Local services are run by many, many companies, often with overlapping routes. Sometimes the same route will be run by two companies!

There are also national services such as National Express and Megabus.

Your best bet to try and make sense of this is to contact Travelline or your local bus station/tourist information point.

In London you can also contact Transport For London (TFL).

The bus driver may also be able to help, provided they’re in a good mood (not guaranteed)

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