Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 23:01:56 on Sat, 24 Nov
2012, John Williamson remarked:
Head - desk The only vehicle that is allowed to stop at a bus stop
is a bus on a service licenced to use that stop.

Cars and vans are allowed to stop there as well. Only if there's a "No
Stopping" plate is a bus stop exclusively for the use of buses.

And non-registerable coach services, so long as by doing so they don't turn
their route into something that would have to become a registered local bus
route, in which case the stop and relevant section of route would need to
become a registered local bus route.

As for rail replacement, I'm pretty sure it is only exempted from needing
to register if operating a local bus route by the fact that it does only
serve railway stations.

The criteria involve an overall route length and a distance between stops,
though I forget what each bit is.

Neil
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