Bus services

• An interesting document produced for Gamlingay Residents Association.
• Gamlingay to Biggleswade, Sandy and, Bedford
• Gamlingay to Cambridge – via the villages route
• Concessionary fares scheme

St Neots market day bus service

This service runs every Thursday from Hatley to St Neots.  The official timetable can be downloaded as a PDF file.

See below about using it to get to Cambridge.

• Every Thursday.
• Service number C2.
• Adult fare £2.60 return – FREE for those with concessionary bus passes.
• Children/youngsters (5 to 16) £2.00 return.
• Children under five free.

Tickets can be bought at Hatley Post Office – there's no need for a ticket if you have a concessionary bus pass.  The service is operated by Saffords Coaches of Little Gransden (01767 677395) on behalf of Cambridgeshire County Council.

Use this bus to go to Cambridge!  Catch the Stagecoach X5 Oxford-Cambridge service in St Neots – it runs every 30 minutes.
      From Parkside (Bay 16), Cambridge, the X5 will take you back to St Neots Market Square for the C2 to Hatley – the 12.10 pm from Parkside arrives at St Neots at 12.45 pm.  If you miss that, the 12.40 from Parkside gets to St Neots Market Square (stop D) at 1.15 pm – just before the C2 is due to leave...
     Two useful timetables:
          The 'local' X5 service.
          The complete X5 timetable.

Gamlingay to Biggleswade, Sandy and Bedford

Services 188 and 190 run between Biggleswade and Sandy via Gamlingay, with connections on to Bedford (and many other places in Bedfordshire). 
      They are operated by Centrebus – see pages 8, 9 and 10 of the detailed timetable on Central Bedfordshire Council's bus routes website.
      (As and aside, Central Bedfordshire Council is one of two unitary authorities which replaced Bedfordshire County Council on 1 April 2009; the other is Bedford Borough Council.   Luton Borough Council, Bedfordshire's third unitary council, was formed earlier.  For more information about Bedfordshire, have a look at Wikipedia.)

Gamlingay to Cambridge via Comberton and Cambourne and lots of other villages

There's a daily (except Sundays and public holidays) Stagecoach service from Gamlingay to Cambridge Drummer Street, with stops at Waresley, Great Gransden, Little Gransden, Longstowe, Arrington, Wimpole, Little Eversden, Great Eversden, Caxton, Cambourne, Bourn, Kingston, Toft, Comberton, Barton, Grantchester, Newnham and (finally!) Cambridge.
      Buses leave Gamlingay Mill Street at 7.10 am (service 18A) and 9.17 am (service 18) and return from Drummer Street at 2.45 and 5.25 pm (both service18A).  They don't stop at all the villages listed above – stops are split between the two services; click here for a full timetable.
      Journey times are around 1¼ hours.  There's a complete list of Stagecoach timetables for our part of the world on its website.

Concessionary bus travel for older and disabled people

Concessionary pass holders are able to travel free on most buses, local and national – including Park & Ride schemes, after 9.30am Monday to Friday and all day at weekends and public holidays.
      Those with a pass because they are registered blind or partially sighted are able to travel free at any time anywhere.

Bus passes are available to the following groups:

• Pensioners (men and women aged 60 or over).
• People who qualify for the higher rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance or the War Pensioners Mobility Supplement.
• Those registered deaf.
• Those who are without speech.
• Those who are prevented from obtaining a driving licence on medical grounds.
• Those registered blind or partially sighted.
• Those who have a learning disability which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning.
• Those who have long term loss of use of both arms.

Medical evidence is required for all categories, except the first two.

From April 2011, Cambridgeshire County Council took over full responsibility for the provision of concessionary bus passes in the county from SCDC.

If you already have a bus pass issued by SCDC, you do not need to re-apply – it will remain valid until the printed expiry date.  Your existing bus pass information has been transferred to the County Council in order to continue the service.

For full details about the concessionary fares scheme, the areas it applies to and how to obtain a pass, please go to the Cambridgeshire County Council website.