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.
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.
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.
We're using this smart, zero-emission electric bus on Universal today โก
We've got nine brand-new electric buses due to be introduced shortly on the route - watch this space ๐
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded 3 new routes by the CPCA.
โข Service 18, operating between Cambridge and St Neots
โข Service 66, operating between Fenstanton and St Neots
โข Service 118, a brand-new route running between Cambridge and Grantchester.
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.
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
We are please to confirm we are taking part in the UK Government โHelp for Householdsโ from 1st Jan to 31st March a single journey ticket will be capped at ยฃ2 on all Whippet services.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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:
Tap on, tap off is coming!
โ Automatically pay the best-value fare however often you travel
โ Day, week and 4-week fare capping
โ Available on all Whippet buses from 29 January
Find out more here ๐
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!
We would like to wish all of our passengers a very happy Christmas ๐ 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.
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
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.
Universal is changing...
๐ 2 October 2023
โ new stops served on Barton Rd & Grange Rd
๐ more buses from Girton Corner
๐ extended to
@CamBioCampus
at weekends
๐ new timetable
Find out more on our website ๐
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).
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 maโam.
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.
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.
Weโre hiring bus drivers for our routes in Cambridgeshire
๐Now ยฃ13 per hour
๐Be part of our amazing, friendly team
โ๏ธLots of perks, including free hot drinks on your break
๐Full training if you donโt already have a licence
Find out more & apply today -
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ยฃ2 single journey fare cap scheme.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Whippet is proud to announce that we have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, demonstrating our commitment to support Armed Forces personnel. ๐๐๏ธ
We pledge to offer guaranteed interviews to service leavers and their immediate families.
Read more ๐
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 ๐
The rain clouds, dramatic sky, sun poking through, and of course the rainbow - a symbol of hope and togetherness - linking our hospital ๐ฅ and
@ASTRAZENECAUK
๐
(๐ธ Taken by senior theatre practitioner
@FlorinPopa
)
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.
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.
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.
One of our support vehicles now has vinyls applied for use by our Engineering team. Hopefully it will continue to remain โrarely seenโ, so hereโs a photograph. No brandy is left inside overnight.
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.
We have an important passenger on board our
@busuniversal
service today. Thatโs our favourite coloured coat too! Whippets can travel free on our buses when accompanied by a human.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Weโre at the Cambridge Job Fair today in the Guildhall - pop down and have a chat about joining our team ๐
Canโt make it? Find out more and apply online!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
It is now pawsable to purchase tickets for
#Busway
C and
@busuniversal
on your mobile phone! Simply search for โWhippet m-ticketโ in the App Store or Google Play to download the App on your iPhone or Android phone. See our website - ๐พ
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.
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.
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 together๐
Weโve all been advised to leave plenty of space between each other to prevent the spread of COVID19. This also applies when youโre travelling by bus ๐
Please:
โข Only 1 person use a double seat if possible
โข Use contactless payment
โข Take rubbish and newspapers with you
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!!
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!
If you use our buses to catch
@TLRailUK
or
@GNRailUK
trains, please be aware that from Monday 23rd a Saturday service will operate and from Monday 30th it is likely a Sunday service will operate. Other train companies will also be reduced. Check websites for further details.
Weโre Hiring!!! New Pay Rates:-
Bus & Coach Drivers
Country Buses ยฃ12ph
Universal ยฃ13ph
FlixBus ยฃ14ph
Additional ยฃ1ph for night duties.
Please apply via email to Roger.Birch
@whippet
.uk.com or call 01954 230011. Immediate starts available.
Our new Universal timetable starts today, with more buses serving Girton College and new stops on Barton Road.
Find out more on our (new!) website ๐
A NORMAL service will continue to operate on Tuesday 24th, including
@busuniversal
- please follow the new guidance - only use buses when essential, practice social distancing, use contactless where possible. We will continue to get essential travellers where they need to be.