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 London 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 London Underground services, along with Transport for London 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 Watford North D 7 Church Road 6 Uxbridge Road North Watford 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 Bushey 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 Oxhey 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, Burnt Oak Central Beaconsfield Bus Stop ‘Z1’ D Aylesbury End Bridge Street Bus Stop ‘H’ Harrow & Colindale 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 Eastcote Rayners (rear of station) Park Road Fryent Way Roundabout 4 from Cricklewood ZONE 5 Ruislip Manor Lane South Kenton West Ruislip Ruislip North C Denham Ickenham, Long Lane South Harrow 3 Wembley Neasden, 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 Hillingdon 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’ Alperton 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 Bakerloo Line 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. NORTH WEMBLEY Central Line 2 Ruislip Manor Station 7 3 Park North Wembley Station, Bus Stop ‘N’ Bus Stop ‘C’ Yeading Lane Castle Bar Park 2 from Acton 3. BEACONSFIELD Jubilee Line 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 London Overground Bus Stop ‘D’ Hanwell Drayton Green from Paddington Hanwell 5. WATFORD Metropolitan Line 4 Ickenham Road Southall West Ealing from Ealing Common Bus Stop ‘N’ Delamere Road Ealing Broadway Main connecting roads Northern Line 5 West Ruislip Station Bus Stop ‘M’ from Southall Bus stops Piccadilly Line West Drayton Hayes & Harlington 1 Drayton Green and Heathrow Bus Stop ‘DM’ 1 1 1 1 1 See numbered disks for National Rail lines 2 Kent Gardens points where there is NHES Bus Stop ‘SX’ insufficient space on 3 Montpelier Road the map Ealing © Vectare 2020 www.vectare.co.uk 7.7.20 Bikes from High Barnet Girls are welcome to cycle to / from School. Should girls wish to have an allocated space to park their bike, please email us at 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