Leighton Buzzard R.F.C. Leighton Buzzard R.F.C. Leighton Buzzard R.F.C is a Rugby Union club based in the English town of Leighton Buzzard in the county of Bedfordshire. They play at Wright's Meadow on Leighton Road, in the Parish of Stanbridge. From the inception of the RFU Leagues in 1987–88 they competed in the Midlands Division until they were switched to the South West Division for the 2014–15 season. After two seasons they returned to the Midlands Division and in 2018-2019 they compete at the sixth level of the national English rugby union system in Midlands 1 East, The club was founded in 1934
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway the steam locomotives were sold in 1921. From that point the railway was run using internal combustion, almost exclusively the products of the Motor Rail company. It was one of the first railways in Britain entirely operated by internal combustion. After the Second World War sand traffic returned to the roads. In 1953 a strike on mainline railways pushed more traffic onto the roads. By the mid-1960s only one sand quarry, Arnold's, still used the light railway. The BR line to Dunstable was closed in 1965, apart from a short stretch from Leighton Buzzard to Grovebury interchange sidings, which survived