Hopper buses

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The 乐播传媒 provides subsidised hopper bus services that run between the main University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus and Sutton Bonington Campus. We also run an evening service in term time from University Park and Jubilee Campus to Lenton and Beeston.

The hopper buses use a , so if you have your university card with you, please tap the card reader machine next to the driver. If you don’t have a card, the driver will manually record your journey.

Staff and students travelling to 乐播传媒 City Hospital are also able to travel free of charge on Medilink - simply show your University card.

Roadworks on College Road - impacts on 901 hopper services

Major resurfacing works are taking place on College Road in Sutton Bonington between Wednesday 12 August 2026 and Tuesday 18 August 2026.

On these dates 901 hopper buses will not be able to serve the Sutton Bonington Campus between 09:00 and 15:30 each day.

When buses cannot serve Sutton Bonington Campus, the nearest alternative stop is on Station Road, near Station Terrace. This is approximately 10 minutes walk from the campus bus stop.

If you are travelling to Sutton Bonington Campus, the following buses will stop on campus as normal:

07:20, 08:00 and 08:35 from Kegworth
08:00, 08:10 and 08:20 from University Park

Buses will then stop on Station Road until the 15:15 from University Park and 15:30 from Kegworth, when buses will stop on campus again for the rest of the day.

If you are travelling from Sutton Bonington Campus, the last buses to stop on campus will be the 08:45to University Park and the 08:52 to Kegworth. Buses will then stop on Station Road until the 15:45 to University Park and 15:50 to Kegworth, when buses will stop on campus again for the rest of the day.

Changes to hopper services from 1 August 2026

Following a comprehensive procurement exercise, 乐播传媒 City Transport (NCT) have been appointed as the new University hopper bus operator and started running hopper services from Saturday 1 August.

Hopper buses continue to be a free service for staff and students, just show your university card to the driver when boarding the bus. If you do forget your card, just let the driver know that you don’t have it with you.

The 901, 903 and 906 hopper services continue to operate on their current term-time and vacation timetables.

Cycle racks are not be available on the new hopper buses.

Travelling to Royal Derby Hospital

Due to teaching relocating from Derby Medical School to 乐播传媒, the 904-hopper service between University Park and Royal Derby Hospital Centre has been withdrawn. The last day of service for the 904 was Friday 31 July.

We understand that this will impact existing users of the service. If you still need to travel between 乐播传媒 and Royal Derby Hospital by bus:

Use the to travel between 乐播传媒 City Centre / QMC and Derby City Centre
Interchange at Derby Bus station for services to Royal Derby Hospital including: , ,

Hopper services during the summer vacation

903 hopper buses are now operating on their vacation timetables.

906 services do not operate in vacation periods.

The 901 operates on the same timetable year round.

901 Service update – NET Parking Enforcement at Clifton Park & Ride car park

NET (the 乐播传媒 tram operators) are taking enforcement action (vehicle clamping with a £140 release fee) against people that are parking at Clifton Park & Ride (P&R) and catching the 901 hopper bus.

The Clifton Park & Ride car park is NOT free for Hopper bus users. Clifton P&R is a tram-based P&R which means that free parking is for tram users not bus users.

NET have advised UoN that any Hopper bus users who want to use the Clifton P&R as a car park will need to buy a day pass for the tram. Users will need to provide evidence that they have a valid tram pass for the day they are parking if challenged by NET’s car park attendants at Clifton P&R. The latest advice from NET states that if you purchase your tram pass via the NET GO app, then you can register your vehicle registration plate on the app - see the for more information.

The Hopper bus primarily stops at Clifton P&R to provide Sutton Bonington Campus with a public transport connection to the Tram which can be used to connect to 乐播传媒 City Centre.