If you just need a bus timetable and already know the service
number, please use the bus service timetable directory:
Internet Journey Planners
Transport Direct allows you
to ask for locations throughout Great Britain and also gives
information for travel by car. It uses copies of the data provided
by the Traveline regions and other databases. The results are
supported by detailed maps and live travel information.
Use for: National journeys and journeys that go
outside of the North West Region.
Traveline leads you to one of 12
regional journey planners provided as part of the Traveline
service. The journey planners contain full bus, rail, coach and
ferry information for their own region.
Use for: Journeys within the North West Region.
For journeys that go outside of the North West Region please use
Transport Direct.
National Rail the gateway to
Britain's National Rail network including full timetable and fare
information.
NextBuses
Traveline Nextbuses
service is a new service from Traveline. It shows the next
departures from any bus or tram stop in Scotland, England and
Wales. Live real time information is shown where available,
otherwise scheduled times are given.
Traveline Txt
The Traveline Txt service allows you to receive bus times direct
to your mobile phone. Every bus stop in the UK has been issued with
a unique code, which you can text to 84268. The codes will be
displayed on your bus stop display or can be found on Transport
Direct.
Using Transport Direct
To find the code for stops in your area check the
stop details on the maps at Transport Direct Txt
Codes.
- Using the homepage "Find a Place" option put your address or
postcode into the "Place" box and click "go".
- Check the names of the stops which appear in your area (you may
need to zoom in on the stops - the stop names and codes appear only
when zoomed in to the largest scale).
- Note down the codes for the stops which you use regularly they
look like "chwmtap". Then text the code to 84268.
Long Distance Journey Planning
Long Distance
Journeys can be planned using the a mixture of Traveline
regional sites or Transport Direct depending on the complexity of
the journey. The Traveline telephone service 0871 200 22
33can also be used and has the benefit of being able to
provide information on route variations due to road works etc that
may not be modelled in the journey planners.
What is the Council's role in these service?
Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester Councils working in
partnership run the Traveline call centre based at Ellesmere Port
and are responsible for the bus stop and timetable data that is
used by the Traveline and Transport Direct services. The Councils
are also responsible for maintaining other national datasets that
apply to the Councils administration boundary such as NaPTAN and the National PT Gazeteer. The data is
exported on a weekly basis and where possible service changes are
available to view two weeks before their start date.
The bus times used in these services are those times supplied to
the Council by the bus operators. Most operators only supply times
at the principle timing points and we use a computer calculation to
estimate the rest of the intermediate stop times.
If you have any questions about the accuracy or completeness of
the information used in these services please use the feedback
forms provided on the sites or
Contact Us.
Contacts
Cheshire Traveline - Integrated Transport Service
0871 200 22 33 Bus and Train times
open 7 days a week 8am - 8pm