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[email protected] · November 23rd 12, 06:15 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:30:27 on
Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Paul Scott remarked:
I've been on replacement buses where the driver has asked if anyone
does actually wants to go to a particular station itself, or can the
bus drop off on the main road/village centre/etc to save a slow trip
along a narrow dead-end lane to the station and back.

Hopefully on a set down only service, or the driver knew by other means
no-one was waiting at the station?

I'm less sanguine about it. Bus replacement services rarely appear to
expect to pick passengers up at rural stations, merely deliver
passengers who embarked at a nearby big town. One way you can tell is
that the pick-up point is often some way from the rural station (eg
at the other end of the road to the station), and no-one bothers to
say exactly where it is.

The rail replacement bus picked me up on the main road near a station in the
Pennines one snowy December. There was one other passenger already on the
bus to the other small station the other side of the Standedge Pass we were
both going to.

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Colin Rosenstiel