Network update
East Midlands - Novus Changes
Yesterday
In partnership with Go Travel Solutions and the Drummond Estate we're making significant changes to Novus Direct from Monday 23rd February in an effort to ensure future sustainability of the transport offering in New Lubbesthorpe and to reflect the significant weekday growth seen on the service throughout 2025.
Timetable & Capacity
We'll be upgrading the small service buses used to full length single decks providing twice the number of seats across across the entire day. To account for the additional running time required with larger buses a new timetable will be introduced with revised frequencies across the week as follows:
- Weekday daytime journeys will run generally every 20 minutes.
- Saturday daytime journeys will run every 30 minutes.
- Sunday daytime journeys will run hourly.
- Evening buses will continue to run hourly until 2330 each day, including on Sundays.
>>Click here for the New Novus Direct Timetable<<
>>Click here for the Novus Direct Route Map<<
Unfortunately the larger buses and our new depot facilities required to operate them from aren't quite ready so until Sunday 15th March we'll need to operate the new timetable with the existing small buses. However to ensure we don't leave passengers behind we'll be duplicating the following weekday journeys each day:
- 0700 from New Lubbesthorpe (0740 from City to Enderby, Brockington College)
- 0740 from New Lubbesthorpe (0825 from City to New Lubbesthorpe)
- 1515 from Enderby, Brockington College (1610 from City to New Lubbesthorpe)
- 1645 from New Lubbesthorpe (1730 from City to New Lubbesthorpe)
Our newer, upgraded, larger buses will then be introduced from Monday 16th March!
Fares & Cashless Buses
Alongside the change in timetable we'll be making some changes to the fares and payment options on Novus Direct.
From Monday 23rd February we'll be going cashless on Novus Direct. Over 95% of journeys on the route are already made via contactless bank card or the myTrip app where we offer a range of great value fares and season passes. There's no changes to our longer season passes with Month, 3-Month and 1 Year pass prices frozen.
English National Concessionary Travel Scheme passes and Leicester Flexi tickets will continue to be valid.
A summary of fare changes is laid out below:
- All Under-19 Singles will increase by 20p.
- Day Tickets will increase to £5.50 (Adults) and £3.50 (U19s)
- Week Tickets will increase to £23.00 (Adults) and £16.00 (U19s)