The University works extremely closely with local bus providers to ensure a great service to our campuses and to provide travel discounts for students and staff.
Bus Routes
Buses to Reading campuses: Whiteknights & London Road
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21/21a travels from Reading train station and town centre past London Road campus and onto Whiteknights campus every 7 minutes during the day in term time. The service runs 24/7 so you will never miss the last bus.
London Road Campus is a short walk from Reading Town Centre and all the routes there.
Other routes which run near Whiteknights Campus are:
21/ 21a - into Whiteknight Campus - to Lower Earley
17 / 4 - Earley Gate (three tuns stop) - 17 to Tilehurst. 4 to Bracknell via Wokingham.
9 / 3 / 10 - Shinfield Road - To Wokingham via Shinfield and Arborfield.
12 / 19 - North of campus, Foxhill, Bridges and Wessex Halls, Earley Gate. - To Woodley.
See Reading Buses' excellent map showing our campus and where buses stop.
Buses to Greenlands Campus near Henley
Our Greenlands campus at Henley is accessible by bus from High Wycombe; Marlow; Henley; Shiplake / Twyford and Reading. Arriva service 800/850* stops on the main A4155 road along the edge of the Greenlands campus roughly every 20 minutes. See the following links for route and timetable information and detail of fares.
Staff can get a trial week's ticket for this service - contact sustainability@reading.ac.uk for more info.
*Reading Buses tickets and passes are not valid on this service.