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The hammer seemed to work pretty well! Wonder if the bus turned up too?

Looks like the cancelled service is back. The one I planned to get was cancelled, but supposedly not any more, as I’m sitting on it!

Im headed back from London in the next few hours. Hoping a bus from bedford stops at Stewartby! Train out at 11:13 was fairly well loaded.

That’s me driving to Flitwick, although that looks like a fail tonight as well, so might just drive to north London tomorrow. It’s not like they even bother to say if there is rail replacement. Honestly less reliable than the fully bustituted service.

The LNWR website is making it sound like the last service of the day is replaced by a bus, so they might have done that. Two random buses towards Bedford appeared in the national rail app yesterday. On another note, looks like there is a train fault today. Few cancellations!

Oh no! Wonder if it will become a regular thing. Looks like the rest are running.

Looks like they failed to deliver a full service, they have cancelled the last run of the day due to an "operational incident" Wonder if the bus will return tonight?

I will be headed home from MK on it this evening. Hopefully there are no teething problems!

I’m about to board the 8.21 out of Stewartby. Me and one other person did get on there, which is one more than I usually see. No rush of students today due to it being half term.

Announced on the LNWR website now. Also mentions £1 a ticket for any single on the line for adults, 50p for children to get people back onto the line after the long period of no/reduced service.

I find the “fast” is usually a coach, stopper is a minibus or transit van with seats. Generally fairly reliable although do have a habit of skipping stops late in the evening. Also, they have a habit of just waiting in the car park at Bletchley and won’t always call at the actual rail...

This also happened to me in Paris. My partner had to go through and find staff inside the barriers to let me in, then I couldn't get out of the station the other end as there were no staff there. Ended up giving up and vaulting the barrier to get out, as could not even see a help point. Same...

I seem to remember Three UK don’t have signal in the UK > France tunnel but the other UK networks do. Coming back to the UK, the tunnel has the French networks and if you are on Three or one of their virtual networks, you will roam onto the French networks.

LNWR have now posted an update too. https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/service-disruptions/marston-vale-line-buses-replace-trains-until-november-2023

Still awaiting the day we get to ride them though! On another note, I just tried to get the last coach of the day from Bletchley and it pulled off without even stopping, several of us waiting at the stop! Lucky the mini bus stopped, otherwise we would have been stranded. Even the mini bus...