Free live bus times for your website
A box on your own website showing when the next buses leave your village's stops, updated every minute, or the same live times full size on a screen in reception. Free, with no sign-up and no adverts. Ideal for parish councils, village halls, pubs, hotels, holiday lets, schools, surgeries, care homes and libraries.
- Find your village or stop below.
- Check the preview: it's exactly what your visitors will see.
- Copy the code and paste it into a page of your website, or email it to whoever looks after the website.
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For example "Thaxted" or "IP12 4RQ". Then choose from the list that appears.
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Email it to your web personPaste it where you'd like the box to appear. In WordPress use a "Custom HTML" block, in Wix "Embed code", in Squarespace a "Code" block. It works on any web page.
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For a TV or monitor in reception, a waiting room or a library: a short address for these stops, to open in the screen's web browser, full screen (F11 on a computer). Save it as a bookmark or the browser's home page, and it's there each morning. There's nothing to install and no website to change; it updates itself every 30 seconds.
The address stays the same. To show different stops, choose them here and make a new one.
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When you've chosen a stop, the box appears here, showing the next buses at that stop.
Questions
What does the box show? The next buses due at the stops you chose, with the time each one leaves that stop and where it's going. After the last bus of the day it shows the next day's, so it's useful even where buses are few.
Does it cost anything? No. It's free, and there are no adverts.
How up to date is it? It refreshes every minute. When a bus is on its way and reporting where it is, the time shown is estimated from where it is (the Department for Transport's Bus Open Data Service); otherwise it's the timetable time.
Is it accessible? Yes. It is built to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA that council websites must meet: proper table headings for screen readers, text that wraps and enlarges instead of being cut off, checked colour contrast (operators' route colours too), visible keyboard focus, and times that update every minute without reloading the page, with a button to pause them. The short script under the box lets it grow with larger text; it still works if your website removes it.
Can I show more than one stop? Yes, up to 12: after choosing a stop, tick the others in the same town or village.
Can it show trains? Yes. After choosing a stop, if there is a station within 10 km, choose to show buses, trains or both. Trains are the station's live departures from National Rail: platforms, delays and cancellations, as on the station screens. You can also search for a station by name.
Can I show it on a TV or screen? Yes, without a website: after choosing your stops, press "Make my screen address", open that short address (like stoptostop.co.uk/s/k7m2) in the screen's web browser and make it full screen. Set it as the browser's home page or a bookmark and it's there every day. It fills the screen with large text, shows the time, updates every 30 seconds, and says so if it loses its internet connection. Smart TVs with a web browser, a small computer or stick plugged into the TV, a tablet, or digital signage software that shows a web page all work.
Can I change it later? Yes: come back here, choose different options and replace the code.