Service Change from 14th September 2025

9 months ago Thu 21st Aug 2025

We’re making changes to some of our services from Sunday 14th September 2025. The key changes are:

Cropwell Bishop, Cotgrave and Tollerton will join the City Bus Network, served by Green 11, delivered in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council
Revised timetables on Navy 4, Green 6, Orange 35 & 36 and Grey 53 & 54
Additional journeys on South Notts 1 to cater for staff shift times, working with The National Rehabilitation Centre
Withdrawal of Pink 29 due to low usage

A summary of all services which change are shown below and you can download the PDF timetable to preview the new times.

The full stop-by-stop and journey-by-journey timetables are available to view online and in the NCTX Buses app by selecting your service and then a date from 14th September 2025.

South Notts 1

Working with The National Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford on Soar, we’re adding in extra journeys to cater for staff shift times.

This will see earlier buses arriving and departing Loughborough at the weekends, too.

Mondays to Fridays

Extra journey from Nottingham at 06:00 through to Loughborough
07:17 from East Leake will start from Loughborough at 07:02
18:40 from Nottingham will continue to Loughborough rather than terminate at East Leake
Extra journey from Loughborough at 19:40 to Nottingham

Saturdays

Extra journey from Nottingham at 06:00 through to Loughborough
07:07 from East Leake will start from Loughborough at 06:54
18:30 from Nottingham will continue to Loughborough rather than terminate at Gotham
Extra journey from Loughborough at 19:40 to Nottingham

Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays

Extra journey from Nottingham at 06:00 through to Loughborough
07:53 from Gotham will start from Loughborough at 07:30
Extra journey from Loughborough Road, Melton Road at 19:50 to Nottingham

Preview new timetable here >>>

Navy 4

Revised timetable introduced, with buses running every 10-15 minutes during the Monday to Friday daytime.

Some early morning and late evening journeys are withdrawn.

These changes are introduced following a reduction in demand and student numbers at Nottingham Trent University.

Our South Notts 1 bus continues to operate up to every 20 minutes to Clifton Campus, stopping outside on Clifton Lane.

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Green 6

Revised Monday to Saturday daytime timetable to improve reliability.

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Green 11

In partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council, we’re extending Green 11 to Spire Hospital, Tollerton, Cotgrave, Hollygate Park and Cropwell Bishop every hour on Monday to Saturday daytimes.

Buses will continue to run at the same frequencies between the City Centre and Lady Bay as they do now, but with a revised timetable on all days. There will be additional journeys to the Water Sports Centre on the 11C.

The extended service to Cropwell Bishop will see extra buses running alongside Ambleside and to/from Gamston, although these will be numbered 11 rather than 11A. (The 11A number will no longer be used).

Journeys will operate from the City Centre to Lady Bay only will show 11B.

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