Early Festive Finishes 2025

On Wednesday 24th December and Wednesday 31st December 2025 our network will finish earlier in the evening to reflect significantly lower demand and to allow our staff to celebrate Christmas and the New Year with their friends and family. 

Last departures on affected routes are listed below - Routes not listed will operate until their last scheduled departures - Please note most routes will be running to Saturday or Sunday timetables on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve (see here for further details).

East Midlands Last Departures

Service 90

• from Nottingham at 1820
• from Fernwood at 1700 - Later buses will run at 1900 & 2100 as far as Bingham numbered 90B

Novus Direct

• from New Lubbesthorpe at 1955
• from Leicester St Margarets at 2025

East of England Last Departures

Service 24

• from Queensgate at 1845
• No change to last departures from Lynch Wood

Service 25

• from Queensgate at 1940
• from Alwalton Hill at 2015

Service 100

• from Landbeach Research Park at 1955
• from Cambridge Drummer Street at 2030

Essex & Hertfordshire Last Departures

Service 1

• from Harlow Bus Station at 2048

Service 2

• from Harlow Town Railway Station at 2110

Service 5

• from Harlow Bus Station at 2020
• from Sumners Farm at 2035

Service 18

• from Loughton at 2045
• from Epping at 1730

Service 20 / 21 /22

• from Harlow Bus Station at 2145
• from Ongar at 1945 - Later buses will depart Epping Station towards Harlow at 2116 & 2216

Service 23

• from Harlow Town Railway Station at 2110

Service 28

• from Harlow Bus Station at 2048

Service 36

• from Buntingford at 1807
• All journeys from Bishop's Stortford will run as timetabled.

Service 37

• from Buntingford at 1522
• from Stevenage at 1700

Service 305

• A full timetable will run except the 2028 from Stansted Airport which will terminate in Takeley. 

Service 333

A full timetable will operate except the following trips:

• 1815 from Braintree Interchange
• 2045 from Stansted Airport
• 2140 from Braintree Interchange
• 2340 from Braintree Interchange

Service 335

• from Bishop's Stortford Interchange at 1945

Service HL1

• from High Leigh at 1840
• from Broxbourne Station at 1900

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