Find your bus anywhere in the UK: introducing bus.me.uk
We built map.nationalrail.me.uk because "where is my train?" deserved a straight answer. The same question about buses turns out to be harder — and, for most people, more common. So there's now a companion site: bus.me.uk, live bus tracking for the UK.
Coverage: honest status
England is fully working now — buses across the country are tracked live, from London to the North East.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland currently show some services, with more coming online as we complete those feeds. If your local route isn't showing yet, it's on the way — the map is expanding, not finished.
Three ways to find your bus
The site opens with one big button and a search box, because there are really only three ways anyone looks for a bus:
- Locate me — one tap, and it shows the buses around you right now
- Stop number — the code on the pole at the bus stop (the one nobody realises is useful until they need it)
- Postcode or route number — "what's near LS1 4DY", or just "the 42"
That's the whole interface. No account, no app download, no journey planner funnel to fight through.
Browse by network or operator
Beyond search, you can dive in by:
- Regional transport network — TfL, Bee Network, WY Metro, TfWM, Merseytravel, Nexus, Travel South Yorkshire, SPT, Transport for Wales, Translink, WECA and Transport North East
- Bus company — Arriva, Stagecoach, First Bus, Go-Ahead, National Express, Transdev, Lothian, McGill's and their local brands
- Region — from the South West to Northern Ireland
Useful when you know the network but not the route, or when you want to see how a whole operator's fleet is running.
Live and historical
Buses are tracked in real time, and their movements are logged — so it's not just "where is it now" but "how does this route actually perform". Anyone who has stood at a stop watching a bus that the timetable insists already came will appreciate the difference.
Save the routes you use
The My routes section lets you keep the handful of routes and stops you actually travel on, so your morning check is one tap rather than a search.
Why a separate site?
Buses and trains are different beasts. Trains have headcodes, signalling data and a national timetable database; buses have thousands of operators, stop-level timings and far messier data. Trying to force both into one interface makes both worse. Two focused sites, each doing one thing properly, works better — and if your journey needs both, they're a click apart.
Using both together
A typical door-to-door trip is bus, train, bus. Check the bus that gets you to the station on bus.me.uk, watch your train's platform and delay on our live rail map, and if it's running late you can see it in time to catch a later connection rather than sprinting for one you'd have missed.
And if the train leg is a long one, it's worth reading up on split ticketing and which Railcard pays for itself fastest before you book.
Try it
Head to bus.me.uk, tap Locate me, and see what's coming. If a route near you is missing or something looks wrong, that feedback genuinely helps — coverage is still growing outside England.
Bus data is sourced from UK open bus data feeds. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors; postcode lookup by postcodes.io.