Leighton Buzzard club for riders of all abilities. Their race team LBRCC-Solgar compete in local, as well as national, cycling events. Established in 2000, Leighton Linslade Croquet Club ( www.leightonlinsladecroquet.org.uk), a member of the Croquet Association, have three croquet lawns in Pages Park next to the pavilion. The club takes part in many national croquet competitions and is a member of the East Anglian Croquet Association (EACF). Leighton Buzzard experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification "Cfb") similar to almost all of the United Kingdom. Central Bedfordshire College has a campus near the town centre of Leighton Buzzard called the "Learning Warehouse".
Leighton Buzzard railway station rail link or as a guided busway. Although there is now a guided busway between Dunstable and Luton, much of the Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable section was lost to the Leighton Buzzard Southern Bypass. On 22 March 1931, a passenger train was derailed due to excessive speed through a crossover. Six people were killed. The station played host to a tragic event on 11 April 2011 when a 43-year-old woman named Rachel James, from Uxbridge, Middlesex, kissed an elderly passenger aboard the 16.25 Northampton to London Euston service which was approaching the station from the north, and set fire to