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Old February 10th 19, 04:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default X5, not Kingston to Eastbourne bus

In message , at 17:37:01 on Sun, 10 Feb 2019,
John Levine remarked:
In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:


Easily beaten by the 3hrs 50mins for the Oxford-Cambridge bus.


How many people take it end to end?


Enough to perhaps convince some gullible people that a rail replacement
for the bus is a good idea?

The few times I took it most people got on or off in Bedford and Milton
Keynes.


The service is in fact a Cambridge-Bedford, and Bedford-Oxford
service[1] glued together with some marketing spin. Much like the East-
West rail route they are trying to resurrect.

[1] See the timetable outside the core hours:

https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3...bles/East/BEDF
ORD/BE%20-%20X5%20-%20DEC%202018.pdf
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Roland Perry