Buses

Buses in Poole

Most bus services in Poole are provided on a commercial basis by private bus companies. You can download a bus map (pdf file) showing all of the routes in the conurbation.

Wilts & Dorset Bus Company operate the majority of bus services in Poole with a comprehensive network.  Look out for the distinctive "More" buses which offer high frequencies and increased passenger comfort.   They also run longer distance routes to destinations such as Wimborne, Blandford, Swanage and Salisbury.

Other bus services are operated by companies such as Yellow Buses , First and Shamrock . First operate the award winning Jurassic CoastLine X53 service which provides Poole with direct buses to Weymouth, Bridport, Lyme Regis, Seaton and Exeter.

Where services are not provided on a commercial basis, we are able to work in partnership with the bus operators by providing subsidised routes.  Approximately 30 different routes are subsidised in this way and they are a range of daytime, evening and Sunday services.

See below for information about the following bus routes:

Route One - linking Poole town centre and the hospital with the Old Town and the Quay

Route 7  - Talbot View - Tower Park and 7B Bloxworth Estate - Tower Park via Alder Road, Ashley Road and Sea View

Route 8 (Rossmore Flyer) - Alderney East - Bourne Estate - Ashley Road - Lower Parkstone Circular Service via Albert Road, Alton Road and Penn Hill

Route 32 - Poole - Broadstone - Merley - Canford Village - Bearwood - Kinson - Castlepoint - B'mth Hospital

Bus Operators

• Wilts & Dorset     
  Serving Poole, Dorset and Wiltshire           01202 673555
• Yellow Buses       
  Serving Bournemouth and Poole               01202 636060
• First                    
  Serving Hampshire and Dorset                  01305 783645
• Damory Coaches 
  Serving Poole and Dorset                         01258 452545
• Shamrock Buses  
  Serving Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset    01202 733722
• South West Coaches    
  Serving Dorset                                         01963 33124
• Verwood Bus               
  Serving Dorset                                         01202 825230

Bus Journey Information

Traveline offers independent timetable and journey planning information for the south-west region, both through the traveline web-site and through a telephone call-centre: 0871 200 22 33 (calls from landlines cost 10p per minute). Information may also be obtained from the bus operator by contacting them directly (telephone numbers above).

Don’t forget, for the latest up-to-the-minute information on bus departures, look for the Real Time Displays at many stops.