Cambridge Bus Route U1: Girton Corner to Biomedical Campus — Stops, Timetable & Fares (2026)

🚌 Cambridge Bus Route U1 — Girton Corner ↔ Biomedical Campus

🚌 Route U1: Girton Corner ↔ Biomedical Campus | 🏢 Whippet Coaches | ⏱️ Every 30 minutes | 💳 £3 fare cap · £2 from Jan 2027 | 📅 Monday to Friday

The U1 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 U1 Essential Information

  • Route: U1 — Girton Corner ↔ Biomedical Campus
  • Operator: Whippet Coaches
  • Days: Monday to Friday
  • First / last (weekday): 06:16 – 22:30 from Girton Corner
  • Frequency: every 30 minutes (less frequent early morning and evening)
  • Journey time: around 48 minutes end to end
  • Stops: 30 stops in the main direction (see list below)
  • Fare: single fares capped at £3 (see Fares & Payment)

🗺️ Route U1 Stops

🚏 Stops Towards Biomedical Campus — in order

  1. Girton Road (near)
  2. Cambridge Thornton Road (near)
  3. Girton, opp Milne Avenue
  4. Cambridge, opp Sainsburys
  5. Cambridge, opp Madingley Road Park & Ride
  6. Cambridge, opp Philippa Fawcett Drive
  7. Cambridge Veterinary School (near)
  8. Cambridge West Hub (near)
  9. Cambridge, opp William Gates Building
  10. Cambridge, opp Bulstrode Gardens
  11. Cambridge Storey's Way (near)
  12. Newnham, opp Madingley Road
  13. Cambridge, adj Playing Field
  14. Newnham, opp Robinson College
  15. Newnham West Road (near)
  16. Newnham Selwyn College (near)
  17. Newnham Grange Road (near)
  18. Newnham, opp Grantchester Street
  19. Cambridge Queens' College (near)
  20. Cambridge Pembroke Street (near)
  21. Cambridge, opp Fitzwilliam Museum
  22. Cambridge Bateman Street (near)
  23. Cambridge Bowling Club (near)
  24. Cambridge, opp Shaftesbury Road
  25. Cambridge, o/s Botanic Gardens
  26. Cambridge Hills Road (near)
  27. Cambridge The Busway Railway Station (Stop 1)
  28. Addenbrooke’s Francis Crick Avenue (near)
  29. Addenbrooke’s, opp Dame Mary Archer Way
  30. Addenbrooke’s, o/s Hospital Outpatients

27 weekday departures from Girton Corner: first 06:16, last 22:30.

🚏 Stops Towards Girton Corner — in order

  1. Addenbrooke’s, o/s Hospital Outpatients
  2. Addenbrooke’s Puddicombe Way (near)
  3. Cambridge Railway Station (Stop 8)
  4. Cambridge, opp Botanic Gardens
  5. Cambridge Shaftesbury Road (near)
  6. Cambridge, opp Bowling Club
  7. Cambridge, opp Bateman Street
  8. Cambridge, o/s Fitzwilliam Museum
  9. Cambridge, opp Pembroke Street
  10. Cambridge, opp Queens' College
  11. Newnham Grantchester Street (near)
  12. Newnham, opp Grange Road
  13. Newnham, opp Selwyn College
  14. Newnham, opp West Road
  15. Newnham, o/s Robinson College
  16. Cambridge, opp Playing Field
  17. Newnham Madingley Road (near)
  18. Cambridge, opp Storey's Way
  19. Cambridge Wilberforce Road (near)
  20. Cambridge Bulstrode Gardens (near)
  21. Cambridge, o/s William Gates Building
  22. Cambridge, opp West Hub
  23. Cambridge, opp Veterinary School
  24. Cambridge Philippa Fawcett Drive (near)
  25. Cambridge Madingley Road Park & Ride (near)
  26. Cambridge Sainsbury's (near)
  27. Cambridge Milne Avenue (near)
  28. Cambridge, opp Thornton Road
  29. Girton Road (opp)

28 weekday departures from Biomedical Campus: first 06:00, last 22:30.

🎫 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 U1 bus from Girton Corner?
On weekdays the first U1 leaves Girton Corner at 06:16.

What time is the last U1 bus?
On weekdays the last U1 from Girton Corner is at 22:30 (the last bus from Biomedical Campus is at 22:30).

How often does the U1 run?
Every 30 minutes on weekdays; the service runs monday to friday.

How much is the fare on the U1?
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 U1 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 30 stops on the main direction, runs Monday to Friday, a typical end-to-end journey of about 48 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 18A — St Neots to Cambridge
  • 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
  • …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:

🚌 About the operator — Whippet Coaches

Whippet Coaches is a bus operator in East Anglia, trading under the licence of Whippet Coaches Limited. It runs 9 of the services in this Ring 1 dataset, and its BusUpdate operator page lists them together with the towns they connect. The operator’s own site is www.go-whippet.co.uk — the place for operator-issued notices, while this page keeps the timetable record.

🧭 The journey, stop by stop

The full calling pattern in the Girton Corner to Biomedical Campus direction, as the timetable records it — 30 stops from end to end:

Girton Road (near) → Cambridge Thornton Road (near) → Girton, opp Milne Avenue → Cambridge, opp Sainsburys → Cambridge, opp Madingley Road Park & Ride → Cambridge, opp Philippa Fawcett Drive → Cambridge Veterinary School (near) → Cambridge West Hub (near) → Cambridge, opp William Gates Building → Cambridge, opp Bulstrode Gardens → Cambridge Storey's Way (near) → Newnham, opp Madingley Road → Cambridge, adj Playing Field → Newnham, opp Robinson College → Newnham West Road (near) → Newnham Selwyn College (near) → Newnham Grange Road (near) → Newnham, opp Grantchester Street → Cambridge Queens' College (near) → Cambridge Pembroke Street (near) → Cambridge, opp Fitzwilliam Museum → Cambridge Bateman Street (near) → Cambridge Bowling Club (near) → Cambridge, opp Shaftesbury Road → Cambridge, o/s Botanic Gardens → Cambridge Hills Road (near) → Cambridge The Busway Railway Station (Stop 1) → Addenbrooke’s Francis Crick Avenue (near) → Addenbrooke’s, opp Dame Mary Archer Way → Addenbrooke’s, o/s Hospital Outpatients.

Read with the grid above, that sequence is the service’s real geography: the villages and estates it threads together, in the order the bus meets them.

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