the lion to Bracknell and the leopard to Wokingham. The lime brand is still retained on the service to Mortimer. Current operations Reading Buses Reading Transport operates public service buses under the Reading Buses brand throughout the town of Reading, and along a number of corridors out to other local towns. All routes have a colour scheme, a concept first introduced in 2004 with the introduction of 'Premier Routes', where each route or group of routes allocated a distinctive colour. These colours are used on the buses used on that route, and also on maps and other publicity. Urban town area routes provide a weekday daytime frequency of between 2 and 8 buses per hour, depending on the route. Five of the urban routes now operate 24 hours a day, reflecting the level of demand for local buses around the clock: Emerald 5 and 6 to Whitley Wood Purple 17 between Tilehurst and Wokingham Road Three Tuns (a pub/restaurant) Claret 21 to Lower Earley Yellow 26 to Calcot IKEA (when IKEA is shut, buses terminate at Calcot Sainsbury) Out of town routes operate at lower frequency, with between one and four buses an hour. These operate out as far as Newbury, Wokingham, Bracknell and Riseley: JetBlack 1 to Newbury Lime 2/2a to Burghfield Common, Mortimer and Tadley (AWE) Leopard 3 to Arborfield and Wokingham Lion 4/X4 to Wokingham and Bracknell Pink 25 to Peppard Common Mereoak Park and Ride 600 to Mereoak Park and Ride, Riseley and Shinfield. Reading Buses also operate the Hospital Park and Ride service 300, which runs between the Thames Valley Park and Ride and the Mereoak Park and Ride via the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the University of Reading. The Thames Valley P&R service 400 was indefinitely suspended in July 2022 due to low usage and a lack of funding. Newbury & District In September 2018, Reading Buses purchased Newbury & District from Weavaway. The operated services include: 1a/1c circulars between Newbury Wharf and Thatcham Broadway 1d Thatcham Broadway 2/2a/2c to Wash Common, Tesco Superstore and Pigeons Farm 3/3a/3c/3x to Hungerford 4/4a/4b/4c to Speen and Lambourn 6/6a to East and West Ilsley 8 to Tesco Superstore 9/9b/9c to Newbury Racecourse, Tesco Superstore and Pigeons Farm 103/103a/b/c to the Greenham Business Park and Tesco Superstore V1 shuttle service between Newbury Rail Station and the Vodafone Campus. All services (except 3c, which continues to Thatcham Broadway) serve