If you rely on buses, make sure to take note of these updates, which include adjustments to service frequencies, temporary timetables due to ongoing roadworks, and changes to first and last bus timings on select routes.
As one of the world’s largest bus networks, TfL operates over 9,000 buses across 700 routes.
The service offers a flat fare of £1.75, with unlimited travel within one hour through the Hopper fare.
Accessibility and sustainability are key priorities, with many wheelchair-accessible buses and an increasing number of electric and hybrid vehicles, aiming for a zero-emission fleet by 2034.
The following changes will take place from Saturday March 1, 2025.
- Route 55 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with the frequency reduced during the daytime on Monday to Saturdays to a bus every 8 minutes. The frequency during the evening and all day on Sundays will remain at a bus every 10 minutes. Also, from this date route 55 will have a change to the stop it starts from at Oxford Circus when heading towards Walthamstow Central. It will no longer serve bus stop OG on Holles Street and instead pick up from bus stop OJ on Oxford Street. There is no change to the last stop at Oxford Circus with buses continuing to set down at bus stop OP on Oxford Street.
- Route 56 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with the frequency reduced during the daytime and evenings on all days to a bus every 10 minutes.
- A temporary timetable will be introduced on route 207 widening the frequency of the service to every 9 minutes during the evenings on Friday and Saturdays and all day Sunday and to every 7 minutes during the daytime on Saturdays. The temporary timetable will be in place to help with reliability during the works on the A40 Westway.
- Route 235 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with journey times revised to better reflect current traffic levels. The frequency of the service will be temporarily widened to every 7-8 minutes in the AM peak and 9 minutes in the PM peak on Monday to Fridays, to a bus every 8-9 minutes between 9am – 7pm on Saturdays and to every 12-13 minutes between 11am – 7pm on Sundays.
- Route 335 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
- Route 397 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
- Route 423 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
- Route 488 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
- Route H22 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times. A temporary timetable will be in place during the daytime on Saturdays amending the frequency of the service to a bus every 12 minutes.
- Route H37 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times. The early morning frequency will also increase to every 15 minutes on Monday to Fridays from first bus until 0600, on Saturdays between first bus and 0700 and on Sundays from first bus until 0930. The times of first buses will also change on Sundays with first buses retimed to depart at the same time as on Monday to Saturdays, 0500 from Hounslow, Blenheim Centre and 0525 from Richmond, Manor Circus.
- Route H98 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times. The early morning frequency will increase on Monday to Saturdays to every 15 minutes from first bus with the evening service on these days also being increased to a bus every 12 minutes. On Sundays the early morning frequency will increase to a bus every 15 minutes from first bus until 9am and then to every 12 minutes until the last bus of the day. The times of first buses will also change on Sundays with first buses retimed to depart at the same time as on Monday to Saturdays, 5.05am from Hounslow Bus Station and 5.05am from Hayes End.
- Route N55 will have a change to the stop it starts from at Oxford Circus when heading towards Woodford Wells. It will no longer serve bus stop OG on Holles Street and instead pick up from bus stop OJ on Oxford Street. There is no change to the last stop at Oxford Circus with buses continuing to set down at bus stop OP on Oxford Street.
- Route N207 will have a new timetable on Friday & Saturday nights with journey times revised to better reflect current traffic levels.
