Service Changes in High Wycombe & South Bucks from 4th January 2026

Following the recent introduction of another route in the area, it has been necessary to review our services across the High Wycombe to Bourne End corridor.

Since taking these routes over from Arriva when they withdrew from their High Wycombe operations in 2024, we have worked in close partnership with Buckinghamshire Council to try and develop the corridor, doubling the frequency of services 36 and 37 and in turn, restoring a joint every 15 minutes service between High Wycombe and Bourne End. We did so recognising that these enhancements would take some time to reach the point of viability, and the team at Carousel Buses remained committed to investing to develop services 36 and 37.

Unfortunately, as part of this review, we have now identified the need to revise the frequency of service 36 to operate every hour through the daytime. Service 36S will continue to operate, but we have taken this opportunity to revise the timetable to improve punctuality. 

Buses will continue to provide a half hourly service between High Wycombe, Loudwater, Wooburn Green and Bourne End on weekdays, with one bus per hour continuing to Cookham, Maidenhead, Dedworth and Windsor daily – as now.

In Maidenhead, buses will operate via St Mark’s Hospital, Courthouse Road and Linden Avenue, providing direct buses from this area to both Windsor and High Wycombe. For customers on Cookham Road, service 9 will now run up to every 30 minutes in both directions, providing a coordinated, fast and frequent service to and from Maidenhead town centre – see here for more details.

As part of these changes, the timetable will be revised throughout. 

To provide improved direct connections, better aligned to demand we are seeing, we will be making some changes to the routeing of some journeys. Buses will continue to operate up to every 30 minutes daily between High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Farnham Common, Farnham Road and Slough town centre.

During Monday to Saturday daytimes, one bus per hour will continue to Windsor as now, and one bus per hour will continue across Slough to Langley Axis Park via Langley Road, Harrow Market, Common Road, Tamar Way and Parlaunt Road.

There will be minor changes to the timetable throughout to improve punctuality.

For customers looking to make journeys between Slough Town Centre and Windsor at other times, our friends at Reading Buses now operate up to 4 buses per hour on their Windsor Express services. 

These services will now run up to every hour between Chalfont Common, Gerrards Cross, Stoke Poges, Wexham Park Hospital, Wexham Court and Slough. Late evening and Sunday journeys will continue to operate every hour between Wexham Park Hospital, Wexham Court and Slough.

For fast and frequent buses between Wexham Park Hospital and Slough, Redline Buses service WP1 runs daily.