Bah humbug: Christmas misery for Bedford travellers with rail replacement buses planned

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This probably wasn’t on your gift list but Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without some issues on the trains, would it?

Passengers planning on travelling over the festive period will have to endure replacement buses or diversions.

It’s due to work taking place north of St Pancras over the festive period. The greatest impact will be on the Thameslink route between London and Bedford, where there will be no trains between St Pancras and Harpenden for nine days from the last weekend before Christmas – from Saturday, December 21 to Sunday, December 29.

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Rail replacement buses will be operating on some routes, but these will be limited, and they are expected to be extremely busy.

Services to and from airports will be affected during this period with fewer trains serving Gatwick Airport and Luton Airport Parkway.

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