Peterborough Bus Route X4: Peterborough to Northampton — Stops, Timetable & Fares (2026)

🚌 Peterborough Bus Route X4 — Peterborough ↔ Northampton

🚌 Route X4: Peterborough ↔ Northampton | 🏢 Stagecoach Midlands | ⏱️ About every 30 minutes in the daytime | 💳 £3 fare cap · contactless | 📅 Daily (Monday to Sunday)

The X4 is a Peterborough intercity/county bus service run by Stagecoach Midlands. This page gives the stops in order, an honest summary of the timetable (first and last buses and how many journeys run, by day), fares and the questions riders ask most. We summarise published timetables — we do not publish invented per-stop times.

📋 Route X4 Essential Information

  • Route: X4 — Peterborough ↔ Northampton (via Corby, Kettering & Wellingborough)
  • Operator: Stagecoach Midlands
  • Days: Daily (Monday to Sunday)
  • First / last (weekday): 05:25 – 23:55 from Northampton Bus Interchange
  • Weekday journeys: 31 from Northampton Bus Interchange + 17 from Peterborough Queensgate Bus Stn
  • Frequency: about every 30 minutes in the daytime (pattern varies by journey)
  • Journey time: up to around 200 minutes end to end
  • Stops: 110 stops in the main direction (see list below)
  • Peterborough departure point: Queensgate Bus Station, Bay 9
  • Fare: single fares capped at £3 (see Fares & Payment)

🚏 Stops

Northampton – Corby – Peterborough — stops in order

  1. Northampton Bus Interchange (Bay 13)
  2. Northampton Abington Square (Stop A1)
  3. Northampton, adj Vernon Walk
  4. Northampton, adj Fitzroy House
  5. Earls Barton, before The Old Swan PH
  6. Earls Barton, after Manor Road
  7. Earls Barton, after Prince Street
  8. Earls Barton Cemetery (after)
  9. Wilby, after The George PH
  10. Wilby Park (before)
  11. Wellingborough, opp Wilbye Grange
  12. Wellingborough, before Northampton Road
  13. Wellingborough, before Weavers Road
  14. Wellingborough, after Northampton Road
  15. Wellingborough, opp Morrisons
  16. Wellingborough Church Street Interchange (Stand D)
  17. Wellingborough, before (Wellingb’) Roche Way
  18. Wellingborough (Wellingb’) Redhill Grange (os)
  19. Great Harrowden, after Phone Box
  20. Isham, after Monk and Minstrel PH
  21. Isham, before Symmetry Industrial Park
  22. (Isham) Symmetry Way (After)
  23. (Kettering) Venture Park (before)
  24. (Kettering) 85 Pytchley Road (before)
  25. (Kettering) Pytchley Road (after)
  26. Kettering, before St Mary’s Hospital
  27. Kettering, after Police Station
  28. Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 10)
  29. Kettering Newland Centre (Stop 1)
  30. Kettering, before Dryden Street
  31. Kettering, before Charles Street
  32. Kettering, before Satra House
  33. Kettering, after Furnace Lane
  34. Kettering, after Rockingham Paddocks
  35. Kettering North Business Park (NW-bound)
  36. Great Oakley, after Storefield Cottages
  37. Danesholme, after (Corby) Viking Way
  38. Corby, after Kingswood School
  39. Beanfield, after Glyndebourne Gardens
  40. Kingswood, before Greenhill Rise
  41. (Corby) George Street Stop A
  42. (Corby) George Street Stop G
  43. Corby Elizabeth Street (Stop M)
  44. Exeter, after Burghley Drive
  45. Corby Village, before St Marks Road
  46. (Corby) Railway Station Forecourt
  47. Corby Village, before St James Road
  48. Corby Village, after St John the Baptist’s Church
  49. Weldon Industry, after British Oxygen
  50. Weldon Industry Central Workshops
  51. (Corby) The White Hart PH (after)
  52. (Corby) Chapel Lane (after)
  53. (Corby) ASDA Superstore (after)
  54. Weldon Industry, after Whittle Road
  55. Weldon Industry, opp Whittle Road
  56. Weldon Industry, before Phoenix Parkway Roundabout
  57. Weldon Industry, before Arkwright Road
  58. Weldon Industry, before Baird Road
  59. Weldon Industry Curver Way
  60. Weldon Industry, before Shelton Road
  61. Weldon Industry, after Sallow Road
  62. Weldon Industry, before RS Components
  63. Weldon Industry Corby Business Academy
  64. Weldon, before Corby Road
  65. Weldon, after Water Lane
  66. Weldon, before Hillside Crescent
  67. Weldon, before Church View
  68. Weldon, before Woodlands Road
  69. Weldon Village Academy (op)
  70. Upper Benefield, before Coronation Crescent
  71. Upper Benefield, after Ashley Farm
  72. Upper Benefield, opp Wheatsheaf Hotel
  73. Lower Benefield, after Phone Box
  74. Lower Benefield Glapthorn Turn
  75. Oundle, before Pexley Court
  76. Oundle, after Prince William Road
  77. Oundle, before Victoria Yard
  78. Oundle New Street (os)
  79. Oundle, after Old Town Hall
  80. Oundle, after Waitrose
  81. Oundle, after Station Road
  82. Oundle, before The Riverside Hotel
  83. Elmington Cottages
  84. Tansor Turn (after)
  85. Warmington, before Little Chef
  86. Over End, opp St Botolph Green
  87. Over End, o/s Black Horse PH
  88. Over End Middle Street (near)
  89. Chesterton Priory Gardens (near)
  90. Alwalton, opp Boroughby Drive
  91. Lynch Wood Showground (Northbound)
  92. Lynch Wood, opp Commerce Road
  93. Lynch Wood, adj Diligenta
  94. Lynch Wood, adj Business Park
  95. Cherry Orton Road (SW-bound)
  96. Orton Waterville, opp Lady Lodge Drive
  97. Orton Longueville, opp Nene Park Academy
  98. Orton Mere (adj)
  99. Orton Longueville, adj Gordon Arms
  100. Botolph Green, opp Toll House Road
  101. Woodston, opp Bakers Lane
  102. Woodston, opp Earl Spencer Court
  103. Woodston, adj Guild House
  104. Woodston, adj The Cherry Tree
  105. Peterborough Rivergate – Northbound (Stop F)
  106. Peterborough, o/s Railway Station
  107. Peterborough Queensgate Bus Stn (Bay 9)
  108. Peterborough Tesco (Stop G)
  109. Peterborough, adj Broadway Cinema
  110. Peterborough, nr Kings School

Peterborough – Corby – Northampton — stops in order

  1. Peterborough, opp Kings School
  2. Peterborough Queensgate Bus Stn (Bay 9)
  3. Peterborough Rivergate – Southbound (Stop A)
  4. Fletton Town Bridge Corner (Westbound)
  5. Woodston, opp The Cherry Tree
  6. Woodston, opp Guild House
  7. Woodston, adj Earl Spencer Court
  8. Woodston, adj Bakers Lane
  9. Botolph Green, adj Toll House Road
  10. Orton Longueville, opp Gordon Arms
  11. Orton Mere (opp)
  12. Orton Longueville, o/s Nene Park Academy
  13. Orton Waterville, adj Lady Lodge Drive
  14. Cherry Orton Road (NE-bound)
  15. Orton Waterville, opp Notcutts
  16. Lynch Wood, opp Business Park
  17. Lynch Wood, opp Diligenta
  18. Lynch Wood, adj Commerce Road
  19. Lynch Wood Showground (Southbound)
  20. Alwalton, adj Boroughby Drive
  21. Chesterton, opp Priory Gardens
  22. Over End, opp Middle Street
  23. Over End, opp Black Horse PH
  24. Over End St Botolph Green (near)
  25. Warmington, after Little Chef
  26. Tansor Turn (before)
  27. Elmington Cottages (before)
  28. Oundle, after The Riverside Hotel
  29. Oundle, before Station Road
  30. Oundle, before Waitrose
  31. Oundle, after Old Town Hall
  32. Oundle, before Prince William Road
  33. Oundle, before Pexley Court
  34. Lower Benefield, after Glapthorn Turn
  35. Lower Benefield, opp Phone Box
  36. Upper Benefield, outside Wheatsheaf Hotel
  37. Upper Benefield, before Coronation Crescent
  38. Weldon Village Academy (os)
  39. Weldon, after Woodlands Road
  40. Weldon, before Church View
  41. Weldon, before Hillside Crescent
  42. Weldon, before Water Lane
  43. Weldon, before Corby Road
  44. Weldon Industry Central Workshops
  45. Weldon Industry, after British Oxygen
  46. Corby Village, after St John the Baptist’s Church
  47. Corby Village, after St James Road
  48. (Corby) Railway Station Forecourt
  49. Corby Village, after St Marks Road
  50. Exeter, after Burghley Drive
  51. Corby Elizabeth Street (Stop L)
  52. (Corby) George Street Stop A
  53. Kingswood, after Eastbrook
  54. Beanfield, before Glyndebourne Gardens
  55. Corby, before Kingswood School
  56. Danesholme, after Colyers Avenue
  57. Great Oakley, after (Gt Oakley) Storefield Cottages
  58. Kettering, before North Business Park
  59. Kettering, after Rockingham Paddocks
  60. Kettering, before Furnace Lane
  61. Kettering, after Satra House
  62. Kettering, after Charles Street
  63. Kettering, after Dryden Street
  64. Kettering Newland Centre (Stop 8)
  65. Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 14)
  66. Kettering, after St Mary’s Hospital
  67. (Kettering) Pytchley Road (after)
  68. (Kettering) 117 Pytchley Road (after)
  69. (Kettering) Venture Park (before)
  70. (Isham) Symmetry Way (After)
  71. Isham, after Symmetry Industrial Park
  72. Isham, before Monk and Minstrel PH
  73. Great Harrowden, before Phone Box
  74. Wellingborough, after Redhill Grange
  75. Wellingborough, before (Wellingb’) The Pyghtle
  76. Wellingborough, before (Wellingb’) Wharton Close
  77. Wellingborough Church Street Interchange (Stand C)
  78. Wellingborough, before (Wellingb’) Sheep Street Stop H
  79. Wellingborough, after Morrisons
  80. Wellingborough, after Northampton Road
  81. Wellingborough, before Weavers Road
  82. Wellingborough Northampton Road (Lea Way)
  83. Wellingborough, before (Wellingbo’) Wilbye Grange
  84. Wilby Park (after)
  85. Wilby, after The George PH
  86. Wilby, after Doddington Road
  87. Earls Barton Cemetery (before)
  88. Earls Barton, before Prince Street
  89. Earls Barton, before Manor Road
  90. Earls Barton, after The Old Swan PH
  91. Northampton, opp Fitzroy House
  92. Northampton, adj St Edmund’s Street
  93. Northampton Lower Mounts (Stop A5)
  94. Northampton Bus Interchange (Bay 13)

📖 About Route X4

The X4 is the long cross-country stopping service across the northern edge of Northamptonshire: from Queensgate Bus Station via Orton and Fletton, then Oundle, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough to Northampton Bus Interchange. It is a full local service, not an express — around 90 stops and up to about three hours end to end.

Buses run through the day from early morning to late evening, seven days a week (a thinner Sunday service), making the X4 the only direct bus link between Peterborough and the Corby–Kettering–Wellingborough corridor. Shorter journeys on parts of the route (for example Peterborough–Corby) are much quicker than the full run.

🎟️ Fares & Payment

Single fares are capped at £3 under the England national fare cap (confirmed to run until March 2027), so no single journey on this service costs more than £3. Contactless payment is accepted by the operators on this corridor; operator day and period tickets may be cheaper for return or multi-bus days, and PlusBus rail add-ons are valid in the Peterborough and Cambridge PlusBus zones.

⏰ Timetable Summary

  • Monday to Friday: 05:25 first / 23:55 last from Northampton Bus Interchange; 07:17 first / 23:42 last from Peterborough Queensgate Bus Stn
  • Saturdays: 05:35 first / 23:50 last from Northampton Bus Interchange; 07:32 first / 23:12 last from Peterborough Queensgate Bus Stn
  • Sundays: 09:00 first / 21:00 last from Northampton Bus Interchange; 10:05 first / 20:10 last from Peterborough Queensgate Bus Stn

Times above summarise the current published timetable — individual journeys can start or finish at intermediate points, and school-day/college-day variations apply on some services. Always check the live timetable with Stagecoach Midlands before travelling.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What time is the first and last X4 bus?
On weekdays the first bus leaves at 05:25 and the last at 23:55 from Northampton Bus Interchange. Weekend times differ — see the timetable summary above.

How much is the fare on the X4?
No single fare costs more than £3 under the England fare cap (to March 2027). Contactless payment is accepted.

How long does the X4 take from Peterborough to Northampton?
Up to about 3 hours end to end — it is a stopping service through Oundle, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough. Peterborough to Corby takes roughly an hour.

Where do I catch it in Peterborough?
From Queensgate Bus Station (Bay 9) for most journeys — see the stop lists for the exact Peterborough departure point in each direction.

Route & timetable data: Stagecoach Midlands, timetable dated 19 October 2026 (service registration PF1118394/57) via bustimes.org (Bus Open Data Service / operator data), cross-checked against the Ring 1 inventory and Stagecoach Midlands’s published information (stagecoachbus.com), verified October 2026. Independently compiled by the BusUpdate editorial team; confirm time-sensitive details with the operator before travelling. See also: Peterborough bus routes & guides on BusUpdate.

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