Our routes

HCT Group is proud to be the only social enterprise that operates London red bus services under contract for Transport for London (TfL). Money made through delivering these routes supports Community Transport services in London.

One of our Route W5 buses. Image © Brian Kemp

We currently deliver the following routes from our Ash Grove Depot:

26 – between Hackney Wick and Waterloo

N26 - between Chingford/Walthamstow Central and Trafalgar Square

309 - between Bethnal Green Bonner Street and Canning Town Station

388 - between Stratford Westfield and Elephant and Castle

394 - between Islington and Homerton Hospital

616 - between Winchmore Hill and Edmonton Green

N550 - between Trafalgar Square and Canning Town Station

N551 - between Trafalgar Square and Gallions Reach Shopping Park

D6 - between Ash Grove and Crossharbour Asda

W5 - between Archway Station and Haringey Sainsbury’s

W13 - between Leytonstone Bus Station and Woodford Wells

We currently deliver the following routes from our Walthamstow Avenue Depot:

20 - between Walthamstow Central Station and Debden Station

385 - between Chingford Station and Crooked Billet Sainsbury’s

397 - between Debden and Crooked Billet Sainsbury's 

W11 - between Chingford Hall Estate to Walthamstow Central Bus Station

W12 - between Wanstead and Walthamstow

W16 - between Leytonstone and Chingford Mount

W19 - between Ilford and Walthamstow Argyll Avenue

Planning your journey online

The Transport for London website provides the travelling public with online journey planning tools for using public transport in London

More information about London buses

The bus section of the Transport for London website includes host of other information about London's buses including the latest travel news, how to pay for your fare, bus route maps and careers on London buses.