Keele Key bus ticket

Keele students and staff benefit from an exclusive bus ticket allowing cheaper and easier travel from campus to key locations throughout the city.

The Keele University campus is served by three bus routes:

Number

Route

Operator

Timetables/Tickets

25

University

Newcastle Town Centre

Royal Stoke Hospital

Stoke Railway Station

First

Timetables | First Bus

85

University

Nantwich

Crewe

D&G

85 | D&G Bus

K

University

Silverdale

Knutton

Chesterton

D&G

K | D&G Bus

Keele Key Ticket

Should you need to travel more widely, the University offer a ‘Keele Key’ ticket to all Keele Card holders that has been agreed with the bus companies. The costs are:

Day ticket

Weekly ticket

Annual ticket (10 mths – 1 Sept – 30 June)

£5.50

£19.00

£400.00

To purchase a Keele Key Ticket you will need to present a valid Keele Card when purchasing tickets directly (on the bus) from D&G and/or First, or declare your University e-mail address when purchasing online (website and the app). Make sure that you have your Keele card with you when you travel as you will be asked to present it.

Bus routes

The ticket is valid only for travel on journeys with a start point and an end point within the area of validity. The area of validity for the Keele Key Ticket is as specified by the following boundary points (last stop inside the boundary) and shown on the map above.

Biddulph Town Centre – 7A, 9, 93, 94, 94A Leek Bus Station – 16, 18 Uttoxeter Bus Station – 32, 32A, 32X Blythe Bridge (John Rice Garage) – 6A Stafford – 101 Crewe (Bus Station) – 3, 85

Special services are excluded from this ticket.