Where the data comes from
Everything on Live Bus Times is built from official open data — no scraping, no guesswork. Timetables refresh weekly (last build: 2026-10-05); live feeds update every few seconds.
| Source | What we use it for | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Open Data Service (BODS) | Timetables & routes for England, Scotland and Wales; live vehicle positions (SIRI-VM); disruptions & cancellations (SIRI-SX); machine-readable fares (NeTEx) | OGL v3.0 |
| Traveline National Dataset (TNDS) | Timetables for Great Britain services that are not published to BODS — community transport, smaller operators and school services supplied by local councils — added alongside BODS, which always takes priority. Also the Isle of Man's Bus Vannin timetables, whose stops are placed from OpenStreetMap | OGL v3.0 — contains Traveline data |
| Cardiff Bus open data | Cardiff Bus timetables, route maps and colours — Cardiff Bus publishes its own feed rather than to BODS, which only operators in England are required to use. Being added: Cardiff Bus routes are not on the site yet | OGL v3.0 — © Cardiff City Transport Services Limited |
| NaPTAN | Every bus stop, rail station and tram stop in Great Britain | OGL v3.0 |
| National Operator Codes (NOC) | Canonical public-facing operator names | OGL v3.0 |
| TfL Unified API | True live countdown departures at London stops | TfL Open Data / OGL. Powered by TfL Open Data; contains OS data © Crown copyright |
| Translink (OpenDataNI) | Northern Ireland timetables — Metro, Glider, Ulsterbus, Goldliner, Foyle Metro | OGL v3.0 (NI) |
| Translink Transport Data API | Northern Ireland live departures and service messages on stop pages. Transport Information supplied by Translink Opendata API | Translink Opendata API licence |
| Transport for Ireland (NTA) | Republic of Ireland bus timetables — every licensed operator | CC BY 4.0 |
| NTA GTFS-Realtime | Live bus positions, delays and cancellations in the Republic of Ireland — Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, Go-Ahead Ireland and the other NTA-contracted services — on our live maps and Irish departure boards | CC BY 4.0 — © National Transport Authority, provided "as is"; the NTA accepts no responsibility for errors or omissions |
| TfGM | Greater Manchester (Bee Network) schedules, supplementing BODS | OGL v3.0 / © TfGM |
| Ember GTFS-Realtime | Live coach positions for Ember, which does not publish to BODS AVL | Open feed © Ember |
| Traffic Commissioners — bus registrations | Every registered local bus service: new routes, variations, withdrawals, the full variation history of each registration, whether a local authority financially supports it, and which authority it is registered with | OGL v3.0 |
| GOV.UK fare cap guidance | Which operators & routes take part in the England fare cap | OGL v3.0 |
| BODS Timetables data API (dataset catalogue) | DfT's own data-quality rating, BODS compliance flag and last-updated date for every operator dataset | OGL v3.0 |
| BODS data catalogue | Which registered services were actually published as open data, whether what was published is current, how closely each operator’s live vehicle feed matches its own timetables, and which ticket types are sold on each route | OGL v3.0 |
| BODS coach data | Long-distance coach services from National Express, FlixBus, Scottish Citylink and others — the operator’s own registered route names, and which services run only for an event | OGL v3.0 |
| TfL Line API | Authoritative London route names, stop sequences and road geometry | TfL Open Data / OGL; contains OS data © Crown copyright |
| DfT bus statistics (BUS01/BUS02) | Annual passenger journeys & vehicle miles per local authority | OGL v3.0 |
| OS Code-Point Open | Postcode locations for the postcode pages & search | OGL v3.0 — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right, and Royal Mail data © Royal Mail |
| postcodes.io | Full-postcode geocoding at request time | Open source, ONS/OS open data |
| GOV.UK bank holidays | Bank-holiday service warnings on route and stop pages | OGL v3.0 |
| OpenStreetMap | Map tiles, plus stop facilities (shelter, bench, lighting, tactile paving) | © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL |
Current timetable feed versions
- east anglia20261005_024627 valid to 1 August 2027
- east midlands20261005_024656 valid to 27 September 2027
- ireland892A3408-F422-4978-8896-7420CF625122 valid to 3 October 2027
- london20261005_023936 valid to 1 August 2027
- north east20261005_024810 valid to 30 August 2027
- north west20261005_024602 valid to 30 August 2027
- northern irelandconverted 2026-10-05 valid to 30 June 2027
- scotland20261005_024442 valid to 7 December 2027
- south east20261005_024039 valid to 7 August 2027
- south west20261005_024233 valid to 1 December 2027
- tfgm3BDC4D30-76FE-4790-AB70-BE679C95C13E valid to 28 November 2031
- wales20261005_024404 valid to 25 July 2027
- west midlands20261005_024702 valid to 1 August 2027
- yorkshire20261005_024404 valid to 13 September 2027
Downloads
The derived tables this site publishes and nobody else does, as plain CSV. Each is the same data the page shows, refreshed on the same schedule, under the licence below with attribution to Live Bus Times.
- punctuality.csv — on-time performance by local bus service, last 30 days of live GPS observations. Keyed on operator code, line and region, so two downloads can be joined
- data-quality.csv — DfT data-quality rating and BODS compliance for every publishing operator
- bods-quality-history.csv — weekly archive of the BODS catalogue, by publisher, since the first week collected
- stats.csv — DfT passenger journeys and vehicle miles by local authority, every year in the series
- registrations.csv — the most recent 5,000 Traffic Commissioner service registrations
- disruptions.csv — every disruption open on the operators' feeds right now
Licence
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Republic of Ireland timetables and live bus positions © National Transport Authority, CC BY 4.0, provided "as is" without warranty. Northern Ireland data via OpenDataNI (OGL NI). Map data and Isle of Man stop locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Postcode data contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right, and Royal Mail data © Royal Mail. Punctuality scores are our own measurements derived from BODS live data. This site is independent and not affiliated with the DfT, TfL, Translink, the NTA or any operator.