Live positions for the Stagecoach West town buses that serve Cheltenham — how far each one is and which way it's heading, in plain words.
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Where the town buses are right now on Cheltenham's main routes — how far each one is from the town centre and which way it's heading, in plain words. Tap a line for its full timetable. The frequencies below are the scheduled service, not a live countdown. No app, no sign-in.
Live positions as of 23:26. The page updates about once a minute — refresh for the latest.
Cheltenham Spa station (Lansdown) – Town Centre – Racecourse – Bishop's Cleeve
To Cheltenham Spa Rail — about 4 miles away on the Prestbury side, heading away
From Mill Parade. Position reported 23:26.
Scheduled service: About every 20 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime — and with its sister route E along the shared Hatherley–Town Centre–Bishop's Cleeve stretch, roughly a bus every 10 minutes. The flagship cross-town route linking the rail station to the town centre. Full timetable
Arle Court Park & Ride – GCHQ – Town Centre – Prestbury
To Cemetery — under a mile away on the Cheltenham Spa station side, heading this way
From Arle Court Transpor. Position reported 23:26.
To Arle Court Park & R — under a mile away on the Prestbury side, heading away
From Cemetery. Position reported 23:26.
To Arle Court Park & R — about 2 miles away on the Cheltenham Spa station side, heading away
From Cemetery. Position reported 23:21.
Scheduled service: About every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime. The Arle Court park & ride service. Full timetable
Town Centre – Kingsditch Retail Park – Springbank / Fiddler's Green
To Local Shops — about 2 miles away on the Cheltenham Spa station side, heading this way
From High Street. Position reported 23:26.
Scheduled service: About every 12 to 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime. Full timetable
Cheltenham – Bath Road – Brockworth – Gloucester – Lower Tuffley
To Promenade — about 5 miles away on the Gloucester side
From Silver Close. Position reported 23:26.
To Silver Close — about 6 miles away on the Gloucester side, heading away
From Promenade. Position reported 23:26.
To Clarence Street — about 9 miles away on the Gloucester side
From Silver Close. Position reported 23:26.
Scheduled service: About every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime — the main Cheltenham to Gloucester bus. Full timetable
Cheltenham – Bamfurlong – Staverton – Churchdown – Longlevens – Gloucester
To Promenade — in Cheltenham now
From Transport Hub. Position reported 23:20.
To Transport Hub — about 6 miles away on the Gloucester side, heading away
From Promenade. Position reported 23:26.
Scheduled service: About every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime; the faster limited-stop 94X shares the card and runs the same corridor. Full timetable
Cheltenham – Prestbury – Southam – Cleeve Hill – Winchcombe
No bus currently reporting on this route — that’s normal between journeys. The timetable has the scheduled times.
Scheduled service: Roughly hourly Monday to Saturday daytime, from about 7am — the way up to Cleeve Hill and Winchcombe. A low-frequency route; it may not show a live position early in the morning or on Sundays when it isn't running. Full timetable
Cheltenham Spa station (station code CNM) is about a mile west of the town centre, at Lansdown — routes D and 10 pass close by. Great Western Railway runs most trains, with CrossCountry services too, reaching Gloucester, Bristol, Birmingham, Swindon and London Paddington.
The station is not the bus interchange — that's Royal Well, in the centre. Check live train times before you travel.
Live trains from Cheltenham Spa (National Rail) · Cheltenham Spa station — GWR
Positions checked 23:26. Live bus positions from the Bus Open Data Service (dataset). Contains bus open data from the Department for Transport's Bus Open Data Service, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scheduled frequencies are from published timetables, not live data. Operator updates: Stagecoach West — Cheltenham service updates.