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We run buses on routes 18, 66, X2 & X3 in Cambridgeshire plus the Universal route for the University of Cambridge.
Swavesey, Cambridge
Joined June 2011
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Due to the tragic, sudden and devastating passing of a colleague this morning please be patient and considerate with our drivers and staff whilst they do their best and we offer them support. Our thoughts and condolences go out to his friends and family at this sad time.
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We are excited to announce the next chapter in our 100+ year history as we commence operations with Flixbus on Thursday 15th April 2021 look out for us on routes around the UK including London, Bradford, Leeds, Swansea, Cardiff and Sheffield.
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Having operated the University of Cambridge's bus services since 2016, Whippet is delighted to be awarded a new eight-year contract to deploy a fleet of zero-emission electric buses. The route will be extended to serve Girton, Homerton & Wolfson Colleges.
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We're using this smart, zero-emission electric bus on Universal today ⚡
We've got nine brand-new electric buses due to be introduced shortly on the route - watch this space 👀
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We are proud to announce that we have been awarded 3 new routes by the CPCA.
• Service 18, operating between Cambridge and St Neots
• Service 66, operating between Fenstanton and St Neots
• Service 118, a brand-new route running between Cambridge and Grantchester.
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Thank you for your patience and support today as we launched our new services. We had very little time to implement these new services and are very proud of our team for their dedication to making these services work. New timetables will be available tomorrow onboard our buses.
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As of Monday the 31st October 2022, Whippet Coaches Ltd will be running the following services
18 St Neots - Cambourne - Bourn - Comberton - Barton - Cambridge
61 Eaton Socon - St Neots - Eynesbury
New timetables can now be found on our website
Have a great day
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The electric Whippet on the X3 this evening, being driven by Ron through the busy traffic in Cambourne. Silent running and zero emissions!
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We are please to confirm we are taking part in the UK Government ‘Help for Households’ from 1st Jan to 31st March a single journey ticket will be capped at £2 on all Whippet services.
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That's the last coach back in after our first day with our increased services with
@nationalexpress
. Our cleaning teams have been making sure everything is ready to go again tomorrow - clean and ready to go!
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Today the all-electric
@YutongBus
went out for another run, this time with it's new graphics. Look out for details of where we will use it.
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We would like to say thank you to all our drivers working both on local and FlixBus services for their hard work yesterday ensuring we got our passengers to where they needed to be, and thank you to our passengers for your support whilst we battled the challenging weather.
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All our buses are running this afternoon, and no major delays to report 😎
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30 years ago the world's first guided
#busway
in Birmingham closed. Here's a view of how it is today, compared with the pioneering 1980's.
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We'd like to congratulate our new mayor Dr Nik Johnson
@CambridgeMagpie
in his election to
@CambsPboroCA
. He has quite a vision for bus in Cambridgeshire and we look forward to working with him and the team to deliver the best bus service for our passengers as always.
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Can you help us find this teddy’s owner? He was left on a Universal bus recently 🙁 we’re taking good care of him while he’s with us!
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We would like to wish all of our passengers a very happy Christmas 🎄 and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2023. Please remember there are no services today or tomorrow on our local bus network and a Sunday service will operate on Tuesday 27th Dec.
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Tap on, tap off is coming!
✅ Automatically pay the best-value fare however often you travel
✅ Day, week and 4-week fare capping
✅ Available on all Whippet buses from 29 January
Find out more here 👉
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This morning, we were delighted to launch our improved routes X2 and X3 which start Monday alongside
@StagecoachEast
's new route 905.
@MayorJPalmer
,
@ShrobonaB
and
@CllrLinaNieto
joined us in Cambourne for the launch.
Download the new times here:
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Great News:- From today we are able to accept payments by card, contactless, Apple pay & Android Pay on all of our buses, we have also simplified some fares, extended the city zone to cover Coton & Bar Hill also child single and return tickets are now available before 9am!
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Out first fully branded bus for the new Pedigree route starting on Monday, up to 8 buses per hour rail station to Addenbrooke's and direct links to the shops and the city centre.
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Universal is changing...
📅 2 October 2023
✅ new stops served on Barton Rd & Grange Rd
😀 more buses from Girton Corner
👍 extended to
@CamBioCampus
at weekends
🕙 new timetable
Find out more on our website 👇
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Universal Service:- We are currently seeing delays of approximately 30 min on the Universal service due to traffic in Cambridge, we have inputted an additional bus and driver to try and mitigate the delays to the service. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
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Service up date: with the help off our colleagues at A2B couches we have been able to reinstate the 16:52 X3 service from Addenbrooks to Huntingdon. So please look out for a A2B double decker operating this service
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All of us at Whippet Coaches are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Queen Elizabeth ll. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Royal Family. Rest in peace and thank you for your service ma’am.
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From Monday 17 May following government guidelines, you will now be able to sit on any forward facing seat on our buses (except behind the driver). Please continue to follow social distancing when you can, and continue to wear a face covering (unless exempt).
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Service Update from 14th November 2022, due to operational issues and skills shortage, we will be continuing our emergency timetable that is currently in effect, with the addition of a 15:17 18 service from Comberton to Cambridge. This will be reviewed again in 2 weeks time.
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Once again over the weekend we found ourselves subject to a further stone throwing incident on the guideway resulting in a broken window, if anyone has any information please contact Cambridgeshire Police ref 35/14716/21 before someone is seriously injured or killed. Thank you.
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We’re hiring bus drivers for our routes in Cambridgeshire
👍Now £13 per hour
👋Be part of our amazing, friendly team
☕️Lots of perks, including free hot drinks on your break
🎓Full training if you don’t already have a licence
Find out more & apply today -
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Despite the upcoming lockdown, Whippet are planning on continuing to run their normal services subject to government advice. Our extra school buses will continue to run as well to ensure everyone who needs to be out can get where they need to be.
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Free Travel for NHS Workers
In recognition of the outstanding work being carried out by the NHS, all NHS workers upon production of ID can travel FREE on our buses until further notice.
Thank you for your efforts in keeping us all safe.
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Hello everyone, most of our Cambridgeshire 8 journeys will be operated by our loan bus from our friends at
@EVMUKLTD
for the rest of this week. Let us know what you think.
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The first of the next batch of refurbished buses is almost complete. They will soon be a familiar sight in Cambridge
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Following the latest guidance from Government, it is expected that you will once again have to wear face coverings on public transport in England (unless exempt)
Please bear with us while this moves into legislation but in the meantime, we request that you wear one.
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Good news. The electric Whippet is operating the 17:15 route X3 from Cambridge this evening. Let us know your thoughts if you are on board.
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Good morning all,
This morning we are pleased to announce we are currently now running a full service!
As the day goes on any changes on this will be posted on our page.
Have a great day!
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Social distancing on our buses: We ask you not to sit on seats marked with a sticker so as to allow all passengers to be suitably distant from one another. If you can't find a spare seat, please let your driver know. You may need to catch another bus. Thanks for your patience.
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We loved seeing all the great photos sent to us of our buses in their natural habitat the other week, so here is another this time WS327 in Express livery at Huntingdon Bus Station taken by our very own Trainee Bus Driver Adam.
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It's Christmas Eve and the last bus along The Busway is just approaching Cambridge. It will depart Drummer Street Bus Station, bay 11 at 18:15. There may not be snow on the ground, but keep looking up in the sky as you never know...! We wish all our followers a Merry Christmas.
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Happy New Year to all our passengers, we wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2023. Remember there are no local services operating tomorrow, we are back on the 2nd Jan 2023 with a Sunday service and the start of the £2 single journey fare cap scheme.
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We have 7 Volvo B8RLE on order for route U
@busuniversal
, featuring air-conditioning, WiFi and USB power sockets.
Your specialist city solution 👍
The Volvo B8RLE is designed for rural & urban streets
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The electric Whippet on the X3 this evening, being driven by Ron through the busy traffic in Cambourne. Silent running and zero emissions!
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U Service:- Due to further malicious & dangerous brick throwing incidents on the guideway between Cambridge Rail Station & Addenbrookes Hospital the U service will operate via Hills Road today. Sorry for any inconvenience caused but the safety of all onboard must be our priory.
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We've been working on making our buses are cleaner than ever with added cleans through the day and deep cleans overnight. We've even added some extra equipment to help.
If you need to travel with us, we are here and we are doing all we can to keep everyone safe.
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Remembrance Day:- If possible, safe and legal our drivers may stop at 11:00 to observe the 2 minute silence, please be patient and respect the wishes of our drivers and other passengers who choose to pay their respects to the armed forces community, past and present. Thank you.
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This photo was taken last week when we had lots of sunshine. More of these good looking buses will be with us soon.
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Good news! Northamptonshire County Council have asked us to continue running route 8 Corby - Kettering and route 18 Huntingdon - Thrapston - Corby.
We're going to work with NCC to change some of the service to make it better for our passengers. Let us know what might help you!
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Happy New Year to all our passengers. As a new decade dawns for all, and our next centenary begins, we look forward to serving and seeing you all on board this year.
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Merry Christmas to all our colleagues, passengers and friends. Hope you all have a good day. Remember our buses will see you again on Sunday.
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Our drivers, where safe and legal to do so, will pull over at 11am today to allow the opportunity to mark the national two minutes silence of remembrance.
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We couldn't put that any better. We've been proud to operate
@busuniversal
for nearly five years and especially so in the last year connecting key workers across Cambridge.
A stunning photo that perfectly encapsulates the past year 🌈
The rain clouds, dramatic sky, sun poking through, and of course the rainbow - a symbol of hope and togetherness - linking our hospital 🏥 and
@ASTRAZENECAUK
💉
(📸 Taken by senior theatre practitioner
@FlorinPopa
)
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Our new Pedigree service starts on Monday. We'll have buses running every 15 minutes between Drummer Street and Addenbrooke's and with our Universal service up to 8 times an hour between the railway station and Addenbrooke's. We look forward to seeing you!
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Whippet is proud to announce that we have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, demonstrating our commitment to support Armed Forces personnel. 💚🎖️
We pledge to offer guaranteed interviews to service leavers and their immediate families.
Read more 👉
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We collected our first three refurbished double-deckers today. Look out for them around Cambridgeshire next week.
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One of our support vehicles now has vinyls applied for use by our Engineering team. Hopefully it will continue to remain ‘rarely seen’, so here’s a photograph. No brandy is left inside overnight.
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Great news! One of my colleagues has agreed to stay on late tonight to cover the 1948 & 2058 from Eddington and 2021 & 2131 from Addenbrooke's.
So the only other U journeys cancelled today are the 1838 from Eddington and 1911 from Addenbrooke's.
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We have changes to most of our Huntingdon and Corby area buses from Monday 31st. X2 will replace
@Stagecoach_East
route H between Papworth and Addenbrooke's. With the new X3 buses, there will be many more buses every day between Papworth, Cambourne, Cambridge and Addenbrooke's.
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Today we launched our 3 puppies at the home of Wood Green, The Animals Charity. We gave a donation as a thank you.
http://t.co/Ju6Pkw6cMC
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We have an important passenger on board our
@busuniversal
service today. That’s our favourite coloured coat too! Whippets can travel free on our buses when accompanied by a human.
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Thinking of our colleagues and friends in the transport world after today's terrible accident at Stonehaven. Our thoughts are with all affected by this.
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Here's another of our refurbished buses undergoing final preparations before entering service in Cambridgeshire.
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One of our
@nationalexpress
drivers received this cake today as it was her birthday - hopefully she had a lovely day even though she wasn't driving on her dream job this year.
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We're saddened to hear that the rescue deal for
@LoveWilko
has fallen through.
Anyone looking for a career change is invited to apply with us. We have vacancies for local bus drivers and welcome applications from those with great customer service skills.
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From everyone at
@GoWhippet
and
@busuniversal
we would like to wish all our followers a really lovely Festive Season. Thanks to Aethan for the company card!
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Hello everyone. Unfortunately, we have virtually all of our office staff off sick and a number of our drivers. We are trying our best under extremely trying circumstances to continue providing our services and expect to see some improvement into next week. We are really sorry.
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Tonight's episode from HazMatt (our cleaning supervisor Matt) who's part of the team looking after our buses. Keep safe folks.
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We have had a teddy bear left on our Uni service on Saturday 14th October. If this is yours please contact us to reclaim the bear.
Many Thanks
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Thanks to
@AethanBlake
for his drawing earlier, we are still using our double deckers to allow for social distancing on some of our services. Remember essential travel welcome on our buses, but please only travel for essential shopping, medicine, care or to work when necessary.
Happy Wednesday here’s a whippet Gemini 1 I drew on the computer
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Even after a busy time at Addenbrooke's, I had to drive home! Thanks to Talking T's of Cambridge for my 115 T-shirt.
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We’re at the Cambridge Job Fair today in the Guildhall - pop down and have a chat about joining our team 👋
Can’t make it? Find out more and apply online!
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Our colleagues and friends in the coach world will be descending to London today to demonstrate for support that is essential for them to continue. We stand by you all.
@HonkforHopeUK
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With changes to guidance from 19th July, we would like to recommend that our passengers wear a face covering while you travel on our buses or at bus stations (unless exempt). With the continuing upturn in COVID cases, we think this is the responsible thing to do.
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Thank you to Glyn Coles for sending us this picture of WS342 taken in December at Bar Hill Tesco on the 8 service shortly after joining the Whippet fleet from our friends at A2B. If you have any pictures of our buses we love seeing them in their natural habitat.
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Service Update:- We are currently battling against very bad traffic congestion in Cambridge, this is causing delays to all services, especially Universal. We are on our way and all buses are running.
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Interested in working as part of our friendly team? Join us & get enhanced rates of pay + other perks. Watch this short video to find out more about us!
We're recruiting local bus drivers in Cambridgeshire, including our Universal route.
Apply online
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Good work Brian and our friends at
@a2btravelgroup
and the supplier
@CreateSignsltd
- just exactly what we need right now. Proud to support our communities together.
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Great news from our MD - the X3 will continue to operate next week!
@BBCCambs
big thank you to:
@heidiallen75
@MayorJPalmer
@SouthCambs
Great news... the
#X3
#bus
through
#papworth
and into
#Cambridge
has been given its licence.. we will continue to operate the current service! A massive thank you to
@MayorJPalmer
@heidiallen75
@SouthCambs
for making it happen!
@CBGbusUsers
@CBTransport
@GoWhippet
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Next stop information has improved since this experiment on a London tram (<1952). Our Busway buses have
@Vix_Technology
GPS audio / visual.
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We have repainted our spare
#busway
vehicle in to a new blue colour scheme. Look out for it on route C alongside our other green/blue buses.
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Great News for Service X3 passengers. We can now drop you off at the rear of the Grand Arcade in Cambridge on journeys heading towards Addenbrookes, at the bus stop at the end of Downing Street. Great for avoiding all your parking worries when heading to the shops!!
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Always happy to work with our friends for the same objective - busy busy this end with some new projects and A2B being able to look after this one for us. It'll be back out before we know it!
There's a puppy in our workshop !!
Sadly this poor pup had issues with her paws,our friends at whippet are busy with other projects so we offered to help she's had a blanky and biscuits and she will be fine.
When it comes to keeping people moving it's good to work together👍
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It is now pawsable to purchase tickets for
#Busway
C and
@busuniversal
on your mobile phone! Simply search for ‘Whippet m-ticket’ in the App Store or Google Play to download the App on your iPhone or Android phone. See our website - 🐾
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Good news our Uni service will be running at full capacity again from 0820 this morning.
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Following some very busy buses, an extra bus will run on weekdays from Monday 14th on route X3 at 0722 from Papworth and Cambourne direct to Long Road College & Addenbrookes and route X2 at 1623 from Long Road College & Addenbrookes to Cambourne and Papworth.
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Good news if you have ever considered becoming a Whippet bus driver. We are recruiting and the pay is now £10ph. See
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We’ve all been advised to leave plenty of space between each other to prevent the spread of COVID19. This also applies when you’re travelling by bus 🚌
Please:
• Only 1 person use a double seat if possible
• Use contactless payment
• Take rubbish and newspapers with you
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We’re Hiring!!! New Pay Rates:-
Bus & Coach Drivers
Country Buses £12ph
Universal £13ph
FlixBus £14ph
Additional £1ph for night duties.
Please apply via email to Roger.Birch
@whippet
.uk.com or call 01954 230011. Immediate starts available.
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Tomorrow, Monday 28th, we start our new 8 & 18 services linking Huntingdon, Thrapston, Islip, Brigstock, Stanion, Little Stanion, Geddington, Kettering and Corby. To celebrate everyone can travel free on Monday on these buses!
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Happy New Year to all of our followers. Much as we'd all love to see you on our buses, please use our buses for essential travel only. Don't forget to socially distance and wear a mask unless exempt.
A normal service is now in operation.
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Here's one of our Buses being prepared for the new Universal service which starts on Saturday
@busuniversal
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We’re hiring bus drivers for our routes in Cambridgeshire
😀Earn more than £30k pa
🙌Be part of our amazing, friendly team
🎓We'll page for your training
☕️Lots of perks
🚌Drive our smart, brand-new electric buses
Email info
@whippet
.uk.com to apply
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Congratulations to our friends at
@LibertyBusje
and
@Buses_gg
as they celebrate Liberation Day 75.
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The £2 fare cap has been extended until 31 December 😀
Travel on any of our buses, anywhere, and pay no more than £2 per journey. Buy on the bus, or in advance on our mobile app 📲
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A NORMAL service will apply across our network of services on Monday 23 March. We will be out across Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire but please only travel if necessary - we will keep going as long as we can but please consider looking after yourself and your bus driver!!
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