Kettering Bus Route 9: Kettering to Kettering — Stops, Timetable & Fares (2026)

🚌 Kettering Bus Route 9 — Kettering ↔ Kettering

🚌 Route 9: Kettering ↔ Kettering | 🏢 Stagecoach Midlands | ⏱️ About hourly | 💳 £3 fare cap · £2 from Jan 2027 | 📅 Monday to Friday

The 9 is a bus service run by Stagecoach Midlands in the Kettering area. This page gives the stops in order, an honest summary of the timetable (first and last buses and how often they run, by day), fares and the questions riders ask most.

📋 Route 9 Essential Information

  • Route: 9 — Kettering ↔ Kettering
  • Operator: Stagecoach Midlands
  • Days: Monday to Friday
  • First / last (weekday): 06:05 – 20:40 from Kettering
  • Frequency: about hourly (less frequent early morning and evening)
  • Journey time: around 27 minutes end to end
  • Stops: 21 stops in the main direction (see list below)
  • Fare: single fares capped at £3 (see Fares & Payment)

🗺️ Route 9 Stops

🚏 Stops Towards Kettering — in order

  1. Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 11)
  2. Kettering Newland Centre (Stop 2)
  3. Kettering, before Dryden Street
  4. Kettering, before Charles Street
  5. Kettering, before Satra House
  6. Kettering, after Furnace Lane
  7. Kettering, opp Bracken Close
  8. Kettering, before Brambleside Court
  9. Kettering, after The Briars PH
  10. Kettering, after Viking Close
  11. (Kettering) Lobelia Road (After)
  12. Kettering, after Walnut Crescent
  13. Kettering, after Aster Road
  14. (Kettering) Centre Parade (After)
  15. (Kettering) Ivy Road (before)
  16. (Kettering) Maple Road (before)
  17. Kettering, after The Buccleuch PH
  18. Kettering, after Ford Street
  19. Kettering, before William Knibb Centre
  20. Kettering, after School Lane
  21. Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 11)

14 weekday departures from Kettering: first 06:05, last 20:40.

🎫 Fares & Payment

  • Fare cap: single fares on this service are capped at £3 under the England national fare cap — the cap falls to £2 from 1 January 2027. See BusUpdate’s fare cap guide.
  • Paying: most operators in this area accept contactless bank cards and mobile payment as well as cash; smaller community operators may differ — check with Stagecoach Midlands for this route.
  • Day tickets: if you make several journeys, ask the driver about Stagecoach Midlands day tickets, which can beat paying capped singles.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What time is the first 9 bus from Kettering?
On weekdays the first 9 leaves Kettering at 06:05.

What time is the last 9 bus?
On weekdays the last 9 from Kettering is at 20:40 (the last bus from Kettering is at 20:40).

How often does the 9 run?
About hourly on weekdays; the service runs monday to friday.

How much is the fare on the 9?
Single fares are capped at £3 under the England fare cap (£2 from 1 January 2027).

Timetable & stop data: bustimes.org (open data — Bus Open Data Service / Traveline / NaPTAN), extracted and verified October 2026. Independently compiled by the BusUpdate editorial team; confirm time-sensitive details with Stagecoach Midlands before travelling. See also: buses in Kettering on BusUpdate.

🌐 Route 9 in the Kettering network

This page is part of BusUpdate’s Ring 1 coverage of the Peterborough-centred network — every town service in Kettering and its neighbours, built service by service from the open timetable data (BODS/TNDS via bustimes) rather than from operator summaries. The parsed timetable behind this page records 21 stops on the main direction, runs Monday to Friday, a typical end-to-end journey of about 27 minutes. The operator is Stagecoach Midlands, whose BusUpdate operator page carries its full service list.

🎫 The fare cap — what you actually pay

Single fares on this service sit under the national cap for England (outside London): £3 per single journey now, falling to £2 from 1 January 2027, with the £3 cap funded to March 2027. The cap covers the vast majority of single tickets bought on the bus; day and season tickets price separately and can beat the cap on multi-ride days. The full story — funding, dates and what is excluded — is in the fare-cap guide.

🗺️ Other Kettering services

Appendix compiled October 2026 from this page’s parsed-timetable build data — see our data page for how the Ring 1 dataset is sourced and checked.

🔀 Where this service connects

The timetable’s named interchange stops are where this service meets the rest of the network:

🚌 About the operator — Stagecoach Midlands

Stagecoach Midlands is a bus operator in the East Midlands and the West Midlands, trading under the licence of Midland Red (South) Limited. It runs 21 of the services in this Ring 1 dataset, and its BusUpdate operator page lists them together with the towns they connect. The operator’s own site is www.stagecoachbus.com/regional-help-and-contact/midlands — the place for operator-issued notices, while this page keeps the timetable record.

🧭 The journey, stop by stop

The full calling pattern in the Kettering to Kettering direction, as the timetable records it — 21 stops from end to end:

Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 11) → Kettering Newland Centre (Stop 2) → Kettering, before Dryden Street → Kettering, before Charles Street → Kettering, before Satra House → Kettering, after Furnace Lane → Kettering, opp Bracken Close → Kettering, before Brambleside Court → Kettering, after The Briars PH → Kettering, after Viking Close → (Kettering) Lobelia Road (After) → Kettering, after Walnut Crescent → Kettering, after Aster Road → (Kettering) Centre Parade (After) → (Kettering) Ivy Road (before) → (Kettering) Maple Road (before) → Kettering, after The Buccleuch PH → Kettering, after Ford Street → Kettering, before William Knibb Centre → Kettering, after School Lane → Kettering Bus Interchange (Stop 11).

Read with the grid above, that sequence is the service’s real geography: the villages and estates it threads together, in the order the bus meets them.

⏱️ The service pattern in words

From the parsed timetable: it runs Monday to Friday; the main direction’s first bus is at 06:05 and the last at 20:40; with a typical gap of about 60 minutes between buses in the core of the day. Patterns like this are why the grid matters more than any summary — but as a rule, a service with this shape is a planned journey, not a turn-up-and-go one, and the first and last buses are the ones to build a day around.

🏘️ The Kettering dataset behind this page

BusUpdate’s Ring 1 harvest recorded 180 bus stops across 1 localities in the Kettering area, served by 16 distinct services — the dataset this page’s timetable was parsed from, and the same one behind the locality pages that list every stop with the services that call there. It is the most complete public picture of the area’s bus network assembled in one place, and it is why a small service like this one gets a full page: in a rural network, the thin routes are the ones their villages cannot lose.

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