Cambridge Bus Route 18A: St Neots to Cambridge — Stops, Timetable & Fares (2026)

🚌 Cambridge Bus Route 18A — St Neots ↔ Cambridge

🚌 Route 18A: St Neots ↔ Cambridge | 🏢 Whippet Coaches | ⏱️ Limited service — 1 departures on weekdays | 💳 £3 fare cap · £2 from Jan 2027 | 📅 Monday to Friday

The 18A is a bus service run by Whippet Coaches in the Cambridge area. This page gives the stops in order, an honest summary of the timetable (first and last buses and how often they run, by day), fares and the questions riders ask most.

📋 Route 18A Essential Information

  • Route: 18A — St Neots ↔ Cambridge
  • Operator: Whippet Coaches
  • Days: Monday to Friday
  • First / last (weekday): 07:15 – 07:15 from St Neots
  • Frequency: limited service — 1 departures on weekdays (less frequent early morning and evening)
  • Journey time: around 97 minutes end to end
  • Stops: 48 stops in the main direction (see list below)
  • Fare: single fares capped at £3 (see Fares & Payment)

🗺️ Route 18A Stops

🚏 Stops Towards St Neots — in order

  1. Cambridge Drummer St Bus Station (Bay 3)
  2. Cambridge, opp Downing College
  3. Cambridge Catholic Church (near)
  4. Cambridge, o/s Leys School
  5. Newnham, opp Causewayside
  6. Newnham Grantchester Street (near)
  7. Newnham, opp Grange Road
  8. Newnham Grantchester Road (near)
  9. Newnham, opp Gough Way
  10. Barton New Road (Westbound)
  11. Barton, opp Kings Grove
  12. Barton High Street (near)
  13. Barton Foxcotte Farm
  14. Barton, opp Woodland Burial Ground
  15. Comberton Horizon Park (near)
  16. Comberton Swayne Lane (near)
  17. Comberton South Street (near)
  18. Comberton Kentings (near)
  19. Comberton, o/s Village College
  20. Comberton Village College (in)
  21. Toft Church Road (near)
  22. Toft School Lane (near)
  23. Toft Beldam's Close (near)
  24. Bourn Toft Road (W-bound)
  25. Bourn Short Street (near)
  26. Bourn Kingfisher Close (near)
  27. Crow End Broadway (o/s 41)
  28. Cambourne, opp Little Common Farm
  29. Cambourne Broadway (near)
  30. Cambourne, opp Business Park
  31. Cambourne De La Warr Way (near)
  32. Cambourne Monkfield Park Primary School (near)
  33. Cambourne, opp Oaks Wood
  34. Lower Cambourne, opp Apley Way
  35. Lower Cambourne, opp Woodfield Lane

5 weekday departures from Cambridge: first 09:20, last 18:00.

🚏 Stops Towards Cambridge — in order

  1. St Neots Market Square (Stop E)
  2. Church Street (opp)
  3. St Neots Church View (near)
  4. Eynesbury Howitts Lane (near)
  5. Eynesbury Waterloo Drive (near)
  6. Eynesbury, opp Bishops Road
  7. Eynesbury Howitts Gardens (near)
  8. Abbotsley High Green (near)
  9. Abbotsley Vicarage Farmyard (near)
  10. Great Gransden Eltisley Road (near)
  11. Caxton King's Gate (near)
  12. Caxton, opp Brockholt Road
  13. Lower Cambourne Woodfield Lane (near)
  14. Lower Cambourne Apley Way (near)
  15. Lower Cambourne Oaks Wood (near)
  16. Cambourne, opp Monkfield Park Primary School
  17. Cambourne, opp De La Warr Way
  18. Cambourne Business Park (near)
  19. Cambourne Little Common Farm (near)
  20. Crow End Broadway (o/s 24)
  21. Bourn, opp Kingfisher Close
  22. Bourn, opp Short Street
  23. Bourn Toft Road (E-bound)
  24. Toft, opp Beldam's Close
  25. Toft, opp School Lane
  26. Toft, opp Church Road
  27. Comberton, opp Village College
  28. Comberton Village College (in)
  29. Comberton, opp Village College
  30. Comberton, opp Kentings
  31. Comberton, opp South Street
  32. Comberton, opp Swayne Lane
  33. Comberton, opp Horizon Park
  34. Barton Woodland Burial Ground (near)
  35. Barton Foxcotte Farm (near)
  36. Barton, opp High Street
  37. Barton Kings Grove (near)
  38. Barton New Road (Eastbound)
  39. Barton New Road (near)
  40. Newnham Gough Way (near)
  41. Newnham, opp Grantchester Road
  42. Newnham Grange Road (near)
  43. Newnham, opp Grantchester Street
  44. Newnham Causewayside (near)
  45. Cambridge, opp Leys School
  46. Cambridge, opp Brookside
  47. Cambridge, o/s Downing College
  48. Cambridge Drummer St Bus Station (Bay 3)

1 weekday departures from St Neots: first 07:15, last 07:15.

🎫 Fares & Payment

  • Fare cap: single fares on this service are capped at £3 under the England national fare cap — the cap falls to £2 from 1 January 2027. See BusUpdate’s fare cap guide.
  • Paying: most operators in this area accept contactless bank cards and mobile payment as well as cash; smaller community operators may differ — check with Whippet Coaches for this route.
  • Day tickets: if you make several journeys, ask the driver about Whippet Coaches day tickets, which can beat paying capped singles.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What time is the first 18A bus from St Neots?
On weekdays the first 18A leaves St Neots at 07:15.

What time is the last 18A bus?
On weekdays the last 18A from St Neots is at 07:15 (the last bus from Cambridge is at 07:15).

How often does the 18A run?
Limited service — 1 departures on weekdays on weekdays; the service runs monday to friday.

How much is the fare on the 18A?
Single fares are capped at £3 under the England fare cap (£2 from 1 January 2027).

Timetable & stop data: bustimes.org (open data — Bus Open Data Service / Traveline / NaPTAN), extracted and verified October 2026. Independently compiled by the BusUpdate editorial team; confirm time-sensitive details with Whippet Coaches before travelling. See also: buses in Cambridge on BusUpdate.

🌐 Route 18A in the Cambridge network

This page is part of BusUpdate’s Ring 1 coverage of the Peterborough-centred network — every town service in Cambridge and its neighbours, built service by service from the open timetable data (BODS/TNDS via bustimes) rather than from operator summaries. The parsed timetable behind this page records 48 stops on the main direction, runs Monday to Friday, a typical end-to-end journey of about 97 minutes. The operator is Whippet Coaches, whose BusUpdate operator page carries its full service list.

🎫 The fare cap — what you actually pay

Single fares on this service sit under the national cap for England (outside London): £3 per single journey now, falling to £2 from 1 January 2027, with the £3 cap funded to March 2027. The cap covers the vast majority of single tickets bought on the bus; day and season tickets price separately and can beat the cap on multi-ride days. The full story — funding, dates and what is excluded — is in the fare-cap guide.

🗺️ Other Cambridge services

  • Route 100 — Cambridge City Centre to Cambridge Research Park
  • Route 114 — Addenbrooke's Hospital to Cambridge or Chesterton
  • Route 12 — Newmarket The Guineas to Cambridge City
  • Route 13 — Cambridge to Haverhill
  • Route 132 — Cambridge- Saffron Walden to
  • Route 13A — Haverhill to Cambridge
  • Route 16A — Cambridge to Gt Thurlow
  • Route 17 — Cambridge to Guilden Morden/(Barley)
  • Route 18 — St Neots to Cambridge
  • Route 18 — Newmarket to Newmarket Park & Ride
  • Route 199 — Cambridge to Newnham
  • Route 2 — Ivel Gardens to Grafton Centre
  • Route 26 — Cambridge to Royston
  • Route 3 — Ivel Gardens to Grafton Centre
  • Route 491 — Great Yarmouth to London
  • Route 727 — Great Yarmouth to Heathrow Airport (T5)
  • Route 728 — University of East Anglia to Heathrow Airport (T5)
  • Route 75 — Wrestlingworth to Cambridge
  • Route 777 — Birmingham to Stansted Airport
  • Route 786 — Cambridge to Luton Airport
  • Route 7A — Fowlmere/Hinxton to Sawston/Trumpington P&R
  • Route 8 — Cambridge to Cottenham
  • Route 8 — Cambridge Drummer St Bus to Hilton Scotts Crescent
  • Route 813 — London to Great Yarmouth
  • …and 26 more Cambridge services, all in the town index above.

Appendix compiled October 2026 from this page’s parsed-timetable build data — see our data page for how the Ring 1 dataset is sourced and checked.

🔀 Where this service connects

The timetable’s named interchange stops are where this service meets the rest of the network:

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