Reading Buses covers the fleets of Reading Buses, Newbury and District & Thames Valley (ex Courtney).
Routes prefixes are rb for Reading buses, k for Newbury and District and ct for Thames Valley.
Reading buses employs branding on most of its routes. The brand applied to a vehicle will be shown by a letter next to the fleet number. Generic (non branded) buses just display without a brand letter. Current brands are :-
| a = | Aqua | |
| b = | Blue (Hospital Park & Ride) | |
| c = | Caversham (Pink/Berry/Red routes 22/3/4) | |
| d = | Maidenhead | |
| e = | Emerald | |
| f = | Fawn (Lion & Leopard) | |
| g = | Green (Greenwave) | |
| h = | Mereoak Park & Ride | |
| j = | Jet Black | |
| k = | Ruby | |
| l = | Lime Green | |
| m = | Claret (Maroon) | |
| n = | Newbury & District | |
| o = | Orange | |
| p = | Purple | |
| r = | Royal Blue | |
| s = | Sky Blue | |
| t = | Thames Valley | |
| u = | Buzz | |
| v = | Flightline | |
| w = | Wokingham | |
| x = | Express (Green Line & Windsor) | |
| y = | Yellow | |
| z = | bronze | |
| A = | Azure | |
| B = | Courtney Blue | |
| C = | Chineham Park Shuttle | |
| D = | Courtney Dark | |
| E = | Courtney Red | |
| F = | Thames Valley Slough | |
| G = | Go2Gate | |
| H = | Chocolate | |
| R = | 194 red | |
| T = | Trainer | |
| x = | National Express | |
| Y = | Thames Valley Bracknell | |
short codes specific for Reading are :-
| ZC | St Marys Butts |
| ZD | Market Place/Forbury Gardens |
| ZE | Reading Station |
| ZF | Outside Slough Bus Station by crossroads |