Bus

New Arriva Bus Service

Arriva, Milton Keynes’ leading bus operator, is delighted to announce the launch of Loop, a groundbreaking new bus service designed to connect key destinations across Milton Keynes. Commencing from Monday 6 January 2025, Loop represents the most significant expansion to the city’s transport network in over five years.

 

Buses will run up to every hour, six days per week from early until late. You can view the timetable below. 

 

Connecting communities like never before The Loop’s innovative route will serve new destinations within Milton Keynes and enhances existing connectivity by allowing seamless travel across more of the city without the need to change buses. These destinations include:

 

• Oakgrove
• Kingston
• Woburn Sands and Bow Brickhill
• Caldecotte
• The Open University
• MK Hospital and Stadium MK
• Bletchley
• Furzton
• Westcroft
• Shenley Wood
• Milton Keynes city centre
 

The service will operate in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions, with buses running up to every hour, Monday to Saturday. This new fixed-line route has been carefully designed to link residents to major shopping, education, work, and leisure hubs, providing seamless connectivity across the city.

 

 

 

 

For more information about this new route, visit Arriva's website: Arrivabus.co.uk


 

Grant Palmer Service 134 

  

Grant Palmer currently run the 134 service into Milton Keynes from Woburn Sands on a Monday and a Friday (not Tues-Thurs). 

Rail

 

Woburn Sands Station is on the Marston Vale Line, a community rail line between Bletchley and Bedford, formerly part of the 'Varsity Line' between Oxford and Cambridge. An hourly service runs in each direction, Monday - Saturday, operated by London Northwestern Railway.

See their website for more information: 

www.marstonvalecommunityrail.org.uk


The nearest mainline stations are Milton Keynes Central (7 miles) and Bletchley (6 miles) on the West Coast line into London Euston, and Bedford (15 miles) and Flitwick (9 miles) on the East Midlands line into London St. Pancras. Time tables for all these rail services can be accessed through National Rail Enquiries website.