Bath Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

National Express coaches run to London (£16.50, 3½ hours, 10 daily) via Heathrow (£16.50, 23/4 hours), and to Bristol (45 minutes, two daily) for buses to the north. Services to most other cities require a change at Bristol or Heathrow.

Buses X39/339 (55 minutes, several per hour) and 332 (50 minutes, hourly, seven on Sunday) run to Bath. Other useful services include buses X4/X5 to Bradford-on-Avon (30 minutes, half-hourly), X71/X72 to Devizes (one hour, hourly Monday to Saturday, six on Sunday) and 173/773 to Wells (1¼ hours, hourly Monday to Saturday, seven on Sunday).

Map-timetables for individual routes are available from the bus station office (464446; Manvers St; 8am-5.30pm Mon-Sat).

Train

There are half-hourly trains to London Paddington (£56, 1½ hours) and Cardiff (£12.90, 1¼ hours), and several each hour to Bristol (£5.20, 11 minutes), where you can connect with the main line trains to northern England.

Trains travel to Oxford approximately hourly (£17.20, 1½ hours, change at Didcot Parkway); Weymouth (£11.60, 2¼ hours) every two hours via Bradford-on-Avon (15 minutes) and Dorchester West (£11.30, two hours); and to Portsmouth (£24.10, 2½ hours) hourly via Salisbury (£11.20, one hour).

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