Bus service changes
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Service change from 5 April 2025
Centrebus route ZOO (Luton Interchange – Dunstable – Chilterns Gateway Centre - Whipsnade Zoo) will return for the 2025 season from Saturday 5 April, and will run on Saturdays, Sundays, bank holidays and during school holidays until 31 August 2025. This route serves all stops between Dunstable and Whipsnade in both directions, so can be used for shopping trips to Dunstable or Luton as well as visiting the zoo.
Whipsnade Zoo offers discounted admission for bus passengers – more information on this and many other attractions that offer special offers to bus passengers in our Days Out by Bus guide.
Service change from 14 April 2025
Red Eagle route 61 / 61A (Aylesbury – Tring – Pitstone – Dunstable) will have minor timetable changes at the Aylesbury end of the route, but no change to times of buses within Central Bedfordshire.
Easter weekend 2025
Bus routes in the Central Bedfordshire area mostly will run to a Sunday timetable on bank holidays Good Friday (18 April 2025) and Easter Monday (21 April 2025), a normal Saturday timetable on Saturday 19 April, and a normal Sunday timetable on Easter Sunday 20 April 2025.
Bus times are available on operators’ websites or Traveline.
Train services will be amended over Easter weekend, including major engineering work on the line through Leighton Buzzard between Milton Keynes and London Euston.
Train times are available on operators' websites or National Rail Enquiries.
Service change from 20 April 2025
Arriva route 31 (Dunstable – Bury Park – Luton) will have a new timetable, with a 15 minute frequency on Monday to Saturday daytimes, and will be extended across Luton town centre to and from Farley Hill.