When I rode the 29A going to a church in Coalville on Sundays, I remember the 29/A was split at Coalville, with onward journeys continuing to Burton running as the 9/9A/9E.
The 126 used to run every half-hour from Coalville to Leicester via Loughborough during the daytime, but sometime during the mid-2010s the daytime services of the 126 were axed, being replaced by the service 16 which formerly ran from Coalville to Thringstone but was extended to Loughborough. Last month, the evening services of the 126 were also given the chop, being replaced by extra services on the 16 and 127 (Leicester - Loughborough - Shepshed), while the one morning 126 running towards Leicester only was renumbered as a 127.
Evidently, there was a coach service run by Midland Fox under their Foxhound brand called the X99, running between Birmingham and Nottingham via Tamworth, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Loughborough. This by the 2000s morphed into the service 99 running between Coalville and Nottingham only, and eventually Arriva pulled the plug on their only regular bus service in Nottingham. This far happened before I can remember.
The section between Loughborough and Nottingham was taken over by Kinchbus as their service 9, but Nottingham-based Premiere ran a competing service, the X9 or Red 9, which terminated on Ashby Road in Loughborough, near the bottom end of the university campus. Kinchbus backed down, but hastily reinstated service between Loughborough town centre and Nottingham when Premiere suddenly went under in 2013.
The X9 wasn't the only example of an Interurban service terminating in a random place in the suburbs rather than in Loughborough town centre. Loughborough's own Paul S. Winson Coaches ran the service X27 between Loughborough and Rothley; at a time, it terminated at Thorpe Hill, presumably for school services; likewise, Centrebus's service 8 was similarly extended to Thorpe Hill at one point for school runs, but the plug seems to have been pulled on that, come 2020.
Lastly, Kinchbus's decades-old service 2 from Loughborough to Leicester via Quorn, Barrow-upon-Soar, Sileby and Cossington was truncated to Sileby in 2022, leaving the larger villages on the eastern side of the Soar Valley with public transport provision that I can only describe as pathetic, with absolutely no public transport provision on Sundays immediately afterwards. Nowadays that area is served by a rather non-cohesive network of bus services including only a handful of through journeys from Loughborough to Leicester run by Vectare as the 2X, only two buses every approximately eighty minutes to Loughborough during weekday daytimes (Kinchbus's service 2 running every 80 minutes and Centrebus's pre-existing service 27 which is similarly infrequent and less direct) and a bus service from Barrow to Leicester which in its present form is an odd appendage of Centrebus's service 22A between Birstall and Evington.
