WOKINGHAM’S new bus service will be taking it easier over the festive period, with changes to the services between Christmas Eve and New Year.
Christmas Eve
The Leopard and Lion services (numbers 3 and 4) will run a Saturday service on Christmas Eve, with the last bus running in the early evening.
The last full route Leopard leaves Reading at 6.15pm, leaving Broad Street at 7.27pm. The Arborfield Garrison route leaves Reading at 8pm, and Arborfield Garrison at 8.28pm.
The last full Lion 4 leaves Reading at 7.30pm, leaving Bracknell bus station at 8.05pm, while the last Lion X4 leaves Reading at 7pm, departing from Bracknell bus station at 8.30pm.
Another bus, which stops at the St Anne’s Hotel in Wokingham, leaves Reading at 8.20pm and St Anne’s Hotel at 8.39pm.
Here’s the Reading Buses timetables for the Leopard and the Lion:
Other Reading Buses services cover Wokingham borough.
The 17, which stops at the border of Reading and Wokingham borough, runs right the way through to nearly midnight.
The 19s, which covers Woodley and Lower Earley stops earlier and the claret 21 which covers Lower Earley has a number of late buses running until just before midnight.
Christmas Day
There is no bus service on Christmas Day – the only day where there is no service.
BOXING Day, Saturday, December 26
A special service runs between 7am and 7pm on Boxing Day.
The Lion timetable here is hard to read – click on it to download a PDF of the timetable.
Here is the Leopard’s Boxing Day timetable:
Sunday, December 27
A normal Sunday service operates.
Bank holiday Monday, December 28
A public holiday service runs on bank holiday Monday.
Tuesday, December 29 to New Year’s Eve
A Saturday service runs between Tuesday, December 29 and New Year’s Eve. If you are celebrating New Year in Reading, the company will be running all its night buses on normal Saturday times.
New Year’s Day
On New Year’s Day, there is a Sunday service operating.
And back to normal…
The following day, Saturday, January 2, the timetables return to normal.
Jake Osman, Marketing and Communications Manager for Reading Buses, said: “We have looked carefully at previous years’ demands and think that we have got the service level spot on this year.
“There are plenty of buses for people who are still working and more than enough for those visiting friends and family, doing a spot of shopping or even just sampling the Christmas spirit.”
He added: “And, between December 19 and January 4, our group ticket is only £5 [in the Reading area] which earns lots of savings for people travelling together which is, of course, safer too.”
Download a Christmas timetable
The Lion Christmas timetable (PDF).
The Leopard Christmas time table (PDF).
