All Aboard for the Brentford Festival This Sunday
RedRoutemaster offering free round trips to Blondin Park
Hail the 657 by raising your arm
August 30, 2024
Once again, at this year’s Brentford Festival on Sunday (1 September) a circular heritage bus service will be operating to bring you to and from Blondin Park.
The free family festival with over 90 stalls, live music and a host of attractions is open from noon to 6pm.
Run by local firm RedRoutemaster, the 657 bus will be free of charge and can be stopped by raising your arm.
Taking the start point as the Holiday Inn on Brentford High Street, the service goes up Half Acre, the passes Brentford Station before heading east on the A4 Great West Road and turning up Windmill Road after which it makes its first pass of Blondin Park via Swyncombe Avenue and Northfield Avenue. Doubling back by Uxbridge Road and Boston Road, the bus passes Blondin Park again allowing entry at the Boston Manor Road Gate before turning west on the A4 Great West Road and returning to its starting point via Syon Lane.
The service runs every 30 minutes between 11:30am and 6pm and you do not need to be attending the Brentford Festival to use the bus.
The carriage of folding pushchairs is at the discretion of the conductor and the bus is not wheelchair accessible.
RedRoutemaster is a multi-award winning operator of vintage Routemaster buses based in Brentford.
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