Find buses from Swansea to London

Buses from Swansea to London depart at a rate of between about 40-60 per day, including weekends. The schedule works on a roughly month-long gradient. In other words, the closer you are to the departure date, the more buses are available, with numbers dropping off the further ahead you look. This is because buses are added to the schedule as the departure date gets closer and closer. Thus, if you book a couple of months in advance, you’ll find around 14–22 buses to London from Swansea per day to choose from. So you can either book in advance, or wait until you have a wider variety of choice a few weeks before your intended departure date.

Most buses from Swansea to London are direct trips, but you’ll also find plenty that make a single stop. Direct buses leave from a couple of bus stations in Swansea, arriving at various ones in London. Indirect Swansea to London buses either make a single stop in Cardiff or Birmingham to switch buses. Some of them don’t add much to your overall travel time, arriving only about 15 minutes after the direct trains, while others can more than double your travel time. Direct bus tickets from Swansea to London are also typically cheaper, but the advantage to taking a one-stop trip is to that you’ll travel through different UK landscapes, passing through more towns and cities, particularly if you go via Birmingham. If you simply want the most efficient commute, however, book a direct bus to London from Swansea.

Buses to London from Swansea almost run around the clock, except for a hiatus in the very early morning hours. The first buses leave at around 04:40, with the morning schedule beginning in earnest at about 05:55 – you’ll find plenty of buses leaving simultaneously or within about 5min of each other during peak times like this. Buses then continue at about half-hourly intervals until the evening rush hour, which tapers off just after 17:00. After that, the last buses of the day leave at around 23:45 and finally at about 00:25. From the start of the day’s timetable till these final trips, that adds up to just under 60 buses from Swansea to London from around 04:40 to about 00:30.

When you catch a bus from Swansea bound for London, you’ll most often leave from Swansea Bus Station. This is virtually in central Swansea, and will take you about 3min to get there on several First Cymru bus lines, including No. 56, 25 and 16. Some buses depart from Swansea Bay Campus Station, which is a bit further away on a First Cymru bus, on routes like X1, X5 and X7. Buses arrive at several London stations, most commonly at London Victoria Coach Station – about 10min from Central London on a No. 11 London Bus, or at London Earl’s Court Station. You can get Earl’s Court in about 9min on a District or Circle line Underground train. There are also a number of trains to Heathrow Station, and you can get to central London from there in about 15min on the Heathrow Express train.

National Express is the main bus carrier that operates the routes between these cities. You can either bring two medium-sized items of hold luggage, like light travel suitcases, as long as they don’t exceed about 12 x 18 x 28 inches in dimensions. They can weigh up to about 44lb each. Alternatively, you can bring one large hold luggage item, measuring a maximum of about 12.5 x 20 x 29.5 inches, again with the same weight limit. In addition to these, you can also take a single piece of soft luggage on board with you, measuring no more than around 8 x 14 x 18 inches. If your hand luggage is hard-shelled or has wheels, you’ll need to put it in the hold but you won’t be charged extra for this.

The fastest journey time from Swansea Fairwood Comm to London is 5h 10m. Your arrival can differ by about 0h 20m. This largely depends on whether your bus ride includes stops or is a direct route from Swansea Fairwood Comm to London.

Swansea Fairwood Comm and London are 164.1 mi apart from one another. The actual distance travelled by bus depends on the route taken - roadwork or traffic often impact this and longer routes can change often. In terms of time, 5h 10m by bus is reasonable for normal traffic levels.