Llandudno
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Problem with changing trains at Kettering in the evening is the lack of any sort of catering facilities in and around the station area. There is no pub, hot food takeaway or convenience store within 7-8 minutes walk from the station, and if that’s if you know where you are going.For those Bedfordians who have felt that EMR don't want their custom then this timetable reinforces it from the snippets I have seen. Every government bleat on about putting more people on public transport and taking them off the road but EMR don't seem to agree.
If you are up north and want to get home to Bedford via Derby or Nottingham on weekdays then prepare to fester. For example the 2011 from Nottingham requires a 45 minute rancid fester at Kettering so Bedford not reached until 2209.
How about a mouth watering one hour fester at Kettering? Just do the 2048 from Nottingham for that pleasure and arrive Bedford at 2304. The 2048 will be in London by the time the Bedford connection leaves Kettering.
It sounds like an appalling service for Bedfordians so anyone living in Bedford has to drive but if they don't drive then they have issues. The last bus from Kettering to Bedford is 1748 on weekdays. Would anyone here appreciate an hour fester to get home on a so called connection?
It would seem EMR don't want Bedford folk on their services at all never mind just between St Pancras and Bedford with their current peak Wellingborough buses by trying to put them off travelling north as well by making it difficult to get home.
The only alternative for non car owners is to do the West Coast or east coast routes to either Milton Keynes or St Neots for the X5 buses to Bedford on weekdays just to keep moving and avoid wasting time at Kettering.
Not a great place to hang around for half an hour or so for a connecting train.
Could be an opportunity for someone to open a micropub!