PlusBus

PlusBus explained

PlusBus is a discount price bus pass that you buy with your train ticket. It gives you unlimited bus travel – on participating operators’ services – to and from the train station and in parts of the town the train station serves.

Benefits of PlusBus

• Save time - buy tickets together for train, bus and tram travel
• Great value - exclusive, discount price for bus travel
• Save money - Railcard holders get one-third off day ticket prices
• Go anywhere - unlimited bus travel around the whole urban area of town
• It is more flexible - travel on all participating bus operator’s service

Buying your PlusBus Ticket

You can buy a PlusBus Ticket with most types of rail ticket including single, and day return period return at:

• Any booking office
• From a ticket machine
• Online

You can get PlusBus for the start and / or the end of your journey.

Prices start from £2 a day. Children aged five to 15 pay half the adult PlusBus day ticket price. And you can get 1/3 off your PlusBus Ticket if you have a Railcard.

Where exactly can I use PlusBus?

Each town has a travel zone that covers the whole town centre.  With PlusBus, you can travel as much as you like by bus within this zone.

Please see below for the locations where you can use PlusBus within the Southeastern network.

• Ashford International
• Canterbury East
• Canterbury West
• Chatham
• Dartford
• Deal
• Dover Priory
• Ebbsfleet International
• Folkestone Central
• Folkestone West
• Gillingham
• Gravesend
• Greenhithe
• Hastings
• Herne Bay
• Maidstone
• Maidstone West
• Margate
• Ramsgate
• Rochester
• Sandwich
• Strood
• Tonbridge
• Tunbridge Wells
• Whitstable

On the Southeastern network, PlusBus is available for the towns shown in the PlusBus fare leaflet

Season tickets for three months and a year are also available to purchase from ticket offices only.

Get more information about PlusBus

For information about bus routes and times, go to traveline.info or call traveline on 0871 200 22 33.

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