Bus bosses lay on beer express for Rotherham Real Ale and Music festival

REVELLERS will be all aboard the Beer Bus next week as celebrations get under way for the 20th annual Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival.

The real ale festival takes place at Magna from Wednesday, February 29 to Saturday, March 3 and showcases more than 200 traditional ales on tap from all over the UK and beyond.

And festival-goers need not worry about getting there and back as transport bosses have laid on a special “beer bus”—the BF1—to get them to and from the event.

Passengers can find out the times of the buses by visiting the online journey planning tools at travelsouthyorkshire.com.

The BF1 beer bus departs from stand C1 in Rotherham and D3 in Meadowhall.

It will run throughout the festival from early evening until after last orders between

Rotherham Interchange and Meadowhall Interchange, stopping off outside Magna on the way.

The fare is £2 for a return journey.

David Young, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport executive director of Customer Experience, said: “The dedicated bus service from Rotherham and Meadowhall is a real incentive for people to get to the festival easily and cheaply.

“We hope that the facility encourages them to consider public transport as a viable option for other journeys.”

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