Transport & Travel Guide 2020-2021 Welcome to our Transport and Travel Guide, for the 2020- Some enhancements have been made to our school coach routes 2021 academic year. We have produced this guide in order to for this academic year. The Sudbury route has been renamed to our communicate the wide range of travel optons available to pupils “Hayes & Ealing Route”, which contnues to serve the Sudbury area at Northwood College for Girls, including our own school coach but also now extends out to serve students in Hayes. service and other public transport links. We update the guide every September to refect any changes made to transport services over Our school coach service is designed to connect with Natonal Rail the year. We are fortunate that pupils at Northwood College for and Underground services at key interchange locatons, Girls have access to a variety of sustainable optons for travelling to including Hatch End, Edgware and Rayners Lane. All connectons are and from school, including our own coach service that is available highlighted on individual route tmetables. However, at the current to girls in year three and above. tme, due to the government guidance around COVID-19, we are encouraging students to avoid public transport where possible on Our school coach service is managed on our behalf by Vectare, a their journey to school. specialist school transport management company. All bookings for school coach routes must be made via our online booking system, I very much hope that you are able to fnd a travel soluton that which can be viewed at northwoodcollege.vectare.co.uk. The works for your family. If you need any further assistance planning website allows you to book travel 24/7 from anywhere in the world, your daughter’s journey to school, or you would like to discuss meaning that if you need to leave early for work one morning or travel optons from areas not currently served by our school coach you are running late and you would like your daughter to travel on a service, please contact us via the school transport website and we school coach as a one of, you can make a booking right up untl the will be pleased to assist. coach is due to depart. Payments for school coach travel are also made on the website, so girls are not required to carry cash with I would like to wish your daughter a pleasant and successful them to use the coach service. academic year.

All of our school coaches are operated by Bessway Coaches, a Kind regards, high-quality local coach operator with whom the school has an excellent and longstanding relatonship. All coach drivers are DBS checked, and the school’s coach services are driven by a small pool of regular drivers, which allows both you and your daughter to get to know the drivers on your route. Bessway Coaches operate a feet of modern and comfortable coaches; all are maintained to a high Mr Tim Brown standard and have seatbelts fted to every seat. Director of Finance & Operatons, Northwood College for Girls Bessway Coaches provide our pupils with modern, comfortable vehicles, which are maintained regularly to a very high standard. This allows you to have peace of mind that your daughter is travelling in comfort and safety.

All coach drivers are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and also undertake periodic training to enhance their professional driving skills. You can, therefore, be confdent that your daughter is being transported safely and professionally.

We ofer a wide range of diferent tckets on our school coach service . From a single fare for a one of journey through to return passes for the entre academic year, there are optons for everybody’s travel arrangements. You can book tckets at any tme throughout the year, so it is simple to book an extra journey or arrange travel for a visitng friend.

Our school coach network ofers 75+ stops across 5 routes. Connectons to Natonal Rail and services, along with bus routes, are available at key interchange locatons. We want to ofer you a travel soluton that works for your family, so if you would like any assistance working out the best route to school, please do get in touch.

It takes less than 30 seconds to fnd your nearest coach stop online, and booking takes only a few minutes, so all of the informaton you need to arrange travel for your daughter really is at your fngertps. To fnd your nearest stop or to book your daughter’s travel, visit northwoodcollege.vectare.co.uk. Ridge Lane from Garston Hempstead Road from 9 Canons Corner A411 King’s 8 Stanmore Station ZONE Langley North D 7 Church Road 6 Road A412 Langley Road Watford Junction The Chase 5 Uxbridge Road Watford Library Jellicoe Gardens Town Hall, Bus Stop ‘Y’ Bus Stop ‘B’ Watford High Street Station 4 Uxbridge Road A412 Watford All Saints Church High Street Waterfields Way 3 Uxbridge Road 7 Station West Hutton Lane 7 Bushey Bus Stop ‘E’ 6 2 Uxbridge Road 5 Harrow Arts Centre 6 Blackwell Drive from Rickmansworth Deacons Hill 4 1 Uxbridge Road ‘Chaplins’ Hatch End 5 Eastbury Road Post Office Thorpe Crescent Moor Park A41

3 A1 4 M1 Hall Carpenders Park from High Barnet 3 Anlex Garden Centre 2 ZONE Hale Lane/ Westbury Road Broadfields ZONE C 9 Avenue Woodside Park 2 Batchworth Lane ZONE 8 Stanmore from A355 B A4125 NORTHWOOD 1 7 Stonegrove Bus Stop ‘H’ High Seer Green A Hatch 5 6 Edgware Mill Hill West Finchley Wycombe Beaconsfield 1 Wild Oaks Close COLLEGE /Park Grove & Jordans Northwood End 4 Broadway A4125 3 Edgware Mill Hill East Beaconsfield 2 Manor Park Crescent Mill Hill Post Office 1 Bus Stop ‘J’ Broadway Canons Park ZONE Bus Stop ‘C’ Cricket Ground Headstone Lane Finchley Beaconsfield Northwood Hills Chapel Lane, Central Beaconsfield Bus Stop ‘Z1’ D End Bridge Street Bus Stop ‘H’ Harrow & Finchley Pinner VB & Sons Queensbury Central Wealdstone Hendon A355 Gerrards Pinner Road Kenton Lane, Dollis Park Bus Stop ‘H’ ZONE Great North Way A41 from ZONE Cross Tesco Express, Bus Stop ‘E’ 1 Bus Stop ‘WK’ Kenton Road East C M1 Finchley D Cannon Lane Pinner Road 2 Denham Pinner Kingsbury Golf Club Harrow-on- Kenton Kenton Road A413 West the-Hill Denham Rayners Lane Harrow 1 Draycott Avenue, Hendon Dukeswood Avenue Station Bus Stop ‘LL’ 2 Northwick Salmon Street, A40 Lowlands Road Preston Bus Stop ‘BT’ 3 Rayners (rear of station) Park Road Fryent Way Roundabout 4 from ZONE 5 Manor Lane South Kenton West Ruislip Ruislip North C Denham , Long Lane South Harrow 3 , Forty Lane Springbridge Nurseries Almond Avenue Sudbury Hill 1 Kenton Road Northolt 8 5 4 Blackbird Cross, Bus Stop ‘BB’ Harrow 7 6 Wembley Northwick Avenue, Bus Stop ‘FF’ M40 Ickenham Park Ruislip Sudbury & from Park from Neasden 2 Kenton Road Sainsbury’s Gardens Danemead Grove Harrow Road Wembley Central from Finchley Road Preston Hill, Bus Stop ‘U’ South Petts Hill Garage Sudbury Hill York Road from Uxbridge Hillingdon Ruislip Bus Stop ‘NB’ 3 Forty Avenue Station Wood End Lane Sudbury Wembley Stadium Barn Rise, Bus Stop ‘R’ Northolt Bus Stop ‘NA’ Town A40 4 Forty Avenue Uxbridge Synagogue, Bus Stop ‘F’ Greenford A4005 5 East Lane School Bus Routes Railway connections Perivale A406 Buxlow Prep School, Bus Stop ‘E’ Bus Stop ‘J’ 6 East Lane 1. FINCHLEY 1 Eastcote High Road ZONE Pembroke Road, Bus Stop ‘P’ South Greenford A40 Hanger Lane Station Bus Stop ‘V’ Hanger Lane C East Lane 2. Central Line 2 Station 7 3 Park , Bus Stop ‘N’ Bus Stop ‘C’ Lane Castle Bar Park 2 from Acton 3. BEACONSFIELD The Grapes A312 A406 Royal A40 East Lane 3 Brickwall Lane Bus Stop ‘A’ 1 8 Bus Stop ‘P’ North Ealing Wembley High School, Bus Stop ‘M’ 4. HAYES & EALING Bus Stop ‘D’ Hanwell Drayton Green from Paddington Hanwell 5. WATFORD 4 Ickenham Road Southall West Ealing from Ealing Common Bus Stop ‘N’ Delamere Road Ealing Broadway Main connecting roads 5 Bus Stop ‘M’ from Southall Bus stops Hayes & Harlington 1 Drayton Green and Bus Stop ‘DM’ 1 1 1 1 1 See numbered disks for lines 2 Kent Gardens points where there is NHES Bus Stop ‘SX’ insufficient space on 3 Montpelier Road the map Ealing

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Finchley [email protected]. Central from Cars East Finchley Girls are not permited to drive or park any vehicle on the Northwood College for Girls site, and we do not encourage girls to drive to school. Northwood College for Girls can be accessed via a wide range of sustainable transport optons, including walking, cycling and our own school coach service , so there Buxlow Prep School, Bus Stop ‘E’ is litle need for girls to drive.

North Wembley Station, Bus Stop ‘N’

Wembley High School, Bus Stop ‘M’ SCHOOL COACH SERVICE TIMETABLES 1- Finchley Zone Stop AM PM D Dollis Park, Finchley Central (Stop E) 07:05 17:20 D Great North Way, Hendon 07:15 17:10 C Mill Hill Broadway (Stop H) 07:25 17:00 C Hale Lane/Broadfelds Ave 07:30 16:55 C Edgware, Manor Park Crescent (Stop J) 07:35 16:50 C Stonegrove / Park Grove (Bus Stop) 07:38 16:47 C Canons Corner Bus Stop 07:40 16:45 C Stanmore Staton 07:42 16:43 C Stanmore Church 07:50 16:40 C Uxbridge Road / The Chase 07:53 16:37 C Uxbridge Road / Jellicoe Gardens 07:54 16:35 C Uxbridge Road - All Saints Church (Stop WG) 07:55 16:33 C Uxbridge Road / Huton Lane (Stop Q) 07:57 16:32 C Uxbridge Road / Harrow Arts Centre (Stop U) 08:00 16:30 B Uxbridge Road, 'Chaplins' Hatch End 08:02 16:29 - Northwood College for Girls 08:20 16:15

Go to northwoodcollege.vectare.co.uk Make your booking Contact us via the to locate your nearest coach and get instant website if you have any stop and book ad hoc or regular confrmaton questons 1 travel 2 3 SCHOOL COACH SERVICE TIMETABLES 2 - North Wembley Zone Stop AM PM C East Lane (Wembley High, Stop M) 07:15 17:15 C East Lane (North Wembley Staton, Stop N) 07:18 17:12 C East Lane (Pembroke Road, Stop P) 07:20 17:10 C East Lane (Buxlow Prep School, Stop E) 07:22 17:08 C Forty Avenue, Synagogue (Stop F) 07:25 17:05 C Forty Avenue, Barn Rise (Stop R) 07:28 17:02 C Neasden, Forty Lane (Blackbird Cross, Stop BB) 07:31 16:59 C Fryent Way Roundabout, Salmon Street (Bus Stop BT) 07:34 16:56 C Preston Hill (Stop U) 07:37 16:53 C Kenton Road, Kenton Lane (Stop H) 07:42 16:48 C Kenton Road, Draycot Avenue (Stop LL) 07:45 16:45 C Kenton Road, Northwick Avenue (Stop FF) 07:48 16:42 C Lowlands Road, Rear of Harrow Underground Staton 07:53 16:37 C Pinner Road, Tesco Express / The Gardens (Stop WK) 07:55 16:35 C Pinner Road, VB & Sons Bus Stop 07:58 16:32 B Bridge Street, Chapel Lane (Stop Z1) 08:03 16:27 - Northwood College for Girls 08:15 16:15 Please note that all coach stops are shown for indicatve purposes only. The coach will only stop if students are booked to travel from a partcular stop and stops are shown to provide optons, rather than being a defnitve list. Any parent who wishes to use a stop not shown above, but on the route, should contact Vectare via the school transport website.

Railway Station Underground Station Overground Station SCHOOL COACH SERVICE TIMETABLES 3 - Beaconsfeld Zone Stop AM PM D Beaconsfeld, Post Ofce (Stop C) 07:05 17:18 D Beaconsfeld, Aylesbury End (Stop H) 07:08 17:15 D Beaconsfeld, Cricket Ground 07:10 17:13 C Dukeswood Avenue (A40 Bus Stop) 07:20 17:03 C Denham, Springbridge Nurseries 07:29 16:54 C Sainsburys, Uxbridge (York Road Bus Stop) 07:38 16:45 C Hillingdon Staton 07:43 16:40 C Almond Avenue, Ickenham (Long Lane Bus Stop) 07:46 16:37 C West Ruislip Staton (Stop M) 07:48 16:35 C Ickenham Road (Stop N) 07:50 16:33 C Brickwall Lane (Stop D) 07:51 16:32 C Ruislip Manor Staton (Stop C) 07:53 16:30 B Eastcote High Road (Stop V) 07:56 16:27 - Northwood College for Girls 08:20 16:15 Please note that coach stops are shown for indicatve purposes only. The coach will only stop if students are booked to travel from a partcular stop and stops are shown to provide optons, rather than being a defnitve list. Any parent who wishes to use a stop not shown above, but on the route, should contact Vectare via the school transport website.

Railway Station Underground Station Overground Station SCHOOL COACH SERVICE TIMETABLES 4 - Hayes & Ealing Zone Stop AM PM C Hangar Lane Staton (Stop J) 07:00 17:37 C Montpelier Road, Ealing 07:05 17:29 C Kent Gardens, NEHES (Stop SX) 07:07 17:27 C Drayton Green (Stop DM) 07:09 17:24 C Hanwell (Stop A) 07:12 17:22 C Southall, Delamere Road 07:27 17:08 C Yeading Lane, The Grapes (Stop P) 07:32 17:03 C Wood End Lane (Stop NA) 07:45 16:49 C Danemead Grove, Pets Hill Garage (Stop NB) 07:48 16:45 C Rayners Lane Staton (Stop A) 07:55 16:35 B Cannon Lane, Pinner 08:00 16:30 - Northwood College for Girls 08:20 16:15

Sign up to our school coach service SCHOOL COACH SERVICE TIMETABLES 5 - Watord Zone Stop AM PM D Hempstead Road / Ridge Lane 07:30 16:50 D North Watord, Langley Road 07:32 16:49 C Watord Library (Town Hall, Stop Y) 07:35 16:47 C Watord High Street Railway Staton (Stop B) 07:43 16:40 C Waterfelds Way 07:46 16:38 C Bushey Railway Staton West (Stop E) 07:52 16:35 C Blackwell Drive (Deacons Hill Bus Stop) 07:54 16:33 C Eastbury Road Post Ofce (Thorpe Crescent Bus Stop) 07:57 16:30 C Oxhey Hall Bus Stop 08:00 16:28 B Anlex Garden Centre, Westbury Road Bus Stop 08:05 16:25 A A4125, Batchworth Lane Bus Stop 08:10 16:24 - Northwood College for Girls 08:20 16:15

Go to northwoodcollege.vectare.co.uk Make your booking Contact us via the to locate your nearest coach and get instant website if you have any stop and book ad hoc or regular confrmaton questons 1 travel 2 3 SCHOOL COACH SERVICE FARES 2020-2021

Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D

Ad-hoc (4 or fewer trips per week) £3.10 £4.75 £6.30 £7.90

Regular travel Per journey £2.10 £3.15 £4.20 £5.25 (5 or more trips per week) Return per year £735.00 £1,102.50 £1,470.00 £1837.50

Please note that AM only, PM only and return travel passes are billed on a termly basis, in advance, via the booking website. TERMS & CONDITIONS OF CARRIAGE 1. This agreement is made between all school coach passengers, their parents basis, or to vary the details of her coach travel as a one-of, you should book and Northwood College for Girls in order to provide safe, comfortable and travel via the online website prior to travel. A charge of £3.10, £4.75, £6.30 or civilised journeys for all passengers. £7.90 per single journey is levied for individual trips.

2. Arrangements for pupils’ journeys to and from school are the responsibility of 11. Pupils who travel on the School coach service without pre-booking online, their parents. To assist with discharging this responsibility, Northwood College will have a standard fare of £20.00 added to the school account for each trip for Girls provides a school coach service. Parents are responsible for their taken. If Girls use the service 3 tmes without a prior booking, they will be daughter at all tmes including both prior to and afer boarding and alightng. denied access to future use of the coach service untl all charges have been setled. 3. Transport on the School coach service must be arranged in advance and is paid through the online booking system. 12. For morning trips, bookings must be made by 17:00 the day before. For afernoon trips, bookings must be made by 15:00 on the day of travel. 4. Bookings on the School coach service are non-refundable in the event of a pupil failing to travel. Regular travel for fewer than ten journeys per week 13. Pupils should be at the coach stop 5 minutes before the scheduled tme of must be booked for a full academic year, and the days of travel must be departure, to ensure they do not miss the service. consistent from week to week. This is not the case for ad-hoc bookings which can be made on a fexible basis. 14. Good conduct is required at all tmes. Shoutng, use of foul language, dropping liter, playing music, or any other misbehaviour is strictly forbidden. The 5. Bookings are to be made via northwoodcollege.vectare.co.uk. consumton of food and drink is at the discresion of the driver. Pupils should not visit the shops prior to departng on the school coach. 6. Each pupil for whom an online form has been submited will be added to a coach list detailing the service they travel on, their coach stop and what travel 15. Except when embarking or disembarking, all passengers must remain seated has been paid for. Their name will appear on a list, which will be checked by with their seat belts fastened correctly. the driver. 16. Whilst on a School Coach, all passengers must accept without queston 7. The school reserves the right to alter or change the routes during the the authority of a Northwood College for Girls member of staf, transport academic year. company ofcial or prefect, who may ask them to obey any reasonable instructon such as to pick up liter, desist from certain actons or to move to a 8. It will be the parent’s responsibility to inform the School via the Contact Us diferent seat. form on the website if they no longer wish for their child to use the School coach service. Once travel has been booked and paid for, for the avoidance of 17. Failure to comply with these conditons may result in the mater being doubt, no refunds will be ofered under any circumstances. referred to the pupil’s class teacher or Head of Year and may result in disciplinary acton, including temporary or permanent withdrawal of 9. Parents of Junior School pupils must advise Mrs Kelly and Miss Norton if permission to use the School coach service . their daughter is, for any reason, not travelling home on the school coach, if scheduled to do so. This includes school trips and matches. This is to ensure 18. Northwood College for Girls aims for 95% of journeys to operate within the that girls not present, at the tme of departure from school, do not cause transport industry window of tolerance of one minute early to fve minutes delays to other users. late, however tmings may vary due to trafc conditons or unforeseen circumstances. Drivers will not wait past the scheduled departure tme. 10. If you wish for your daughter to use the School coach service on an ad hoc Northwood College for Girls GDST, Maxwell Road, Northwood, , HA6 2YE

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Timetable, route and fare informaton is correct as of July 2020. This guide is produced for informaton only. We cannot be held liable for any errors or omissions or for any loss or damages caused, howsoever arising and including consequental losses, as a result of the use of this Transport and Travel Guide. Please note that school coach routes are subject to change.