Buses & trains for Madejski Stadium
Bus information
Reading buses
70 Sonning Common - Emmer Green
71 Emmer Green - Caversham Church Street
71A Emmer Green - Caversham Library
72 Woodley - Three Tuns
72A Twyford - Charvil - Woodley - Earley
72B Woodley Airfield - Bulmershe Sports Centre
73 Lower Earley - Christchurch Green
74 CavershamPark - Star Inn
74A Henley-on-Thames - Dunsden Green - Star Inn
75 Purley - Tilehurst Triangle - Southcote Road
75A Pangbourne - Goodliffe Gardens - Southcote Road
76 Tilehurst Circular - Sutherland Grove
76A Tilehurst Circular - Waverley Road
77 Shinfield Park (Park & Ride Shuttle)
78 Newbury Bus Station - Thatcham - Woolhampton
79 Reading Station (Shuttle)
Timetables are available at http://www.reading-buses.co.uk/football-buses. More information can be obtained from Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 (calls cost 10p per minute from a BT landline).
Fares
Reading Urban services 70 - 76a and 78 (within the Greater Reading Urban Area)
Yellow Zone - Adult single £4, Child single £2.50, Adult return £5, Child return £3.
Blue Zone - Adult single £5, Child single £3, Adult return £6, Child return £3.50.
Services 77 and 79
Adult single £3, Child single £1.50, Adult return £3.50, Child return £2.
Return tickets issued by First Madejski Fasttrack service are accepted on this service.
Customers are advised that family tickets are no longer available.
Service 78 (boarding from Newbury Bus Station to Mill Lane)
Adult single £5, Child single £3.50, Adult return £6.50, Child return £4.
Service 78 (boarding from Circuit Lane to Madejski Stadium)
Adult single £4, Child single £2.50, Adult return £5, Child return £3.
Concessionary Pass Holders may travel free on football services on production of a valid pass
Reading Buses Travelcards
The Weekly Area Zonal Travelcards are not valid on these services. The Greater Reading Urban Area Travelcards are valid, as are those on Zone B (from Sonning Common or Wee Waif).
Busabout Tickets
These are not available on the football services.
Outside Reading buses
Buses from outside Reading have been combined, and new services are in place:
951 Basingstoke - Tadley - Mortimer - Burghfield Common
952 Farnborough - Camberley - Yateley - Sandhurst - Crowthorne
953 Wokingham - Emmbrook - Winnersh
954 Great Hollands - Bracknell
Full timetables are available by clicking here for the .pdf file (2.3Mb)
Adult £5.50, child £2.50
Please note all the bus services will stop en route at every pick up point until the last one named before reaching the stadium.
More information can be obtained from Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 (calls cost 10p per minute from a BT landline).
Rail information
The nearest railway station to Madejski Stadium is Reading. From the station you can take a Fastrack Park & Ride service which brings you direct to the stadium seven days a week.
Please note that there is ample town centre parking for access to these buses - Garrard Street, Vastern Road and Broad Street Mall are all within easy walking distance of the Station Hill bus stop.
Parking is extremely limited close to Madejski Stadium.
