London Midland operate a daily two unit shuttle service over
the Marston Vale line between Bedford and Bletchley. This is the last time that the WCML and MMLs are directly linked until the Nuneaton to Leicester link is reached. Until the 1980s there was an intermediate link line that ran from Northampton to Market Harborough. 153354 forms the 08.39 Bletchley to Bedford working seen approaching Lidlington. The picture is taken from a public foot crossing just to the west of the village.