Bountiful Buses In Bedfordshire

The local rag …

… has also been trawling through social media to discover these anguished complaints.

Northampton Alan has forwarded the whole article; but, for it to make sense, we need to try and understand what has actually happened. Unfortunately (fortunately for the residents of the toen!) most on-line sources are showing the new network and the old timetables have vanished.

Except that it doesn’t. Leighton Buzzard station is not at Leighton Buzzard but is at Linslade!

A branch once ran from Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable and on to Luton. There is nothing much left of the branch in the town except the obligatory diagonal line of greenery lower right in the Google Earth view below.

This is  now a footpath which runs from nowhere to nowhere else, starting between some very modern houses …

… and finishing a road junction … 

In the days of fbb’s youth, buses in Leighton Buzzard were the sole preserve of United Counties.

But there was some excitement with the arrival of two midibuses for use on the local services.