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On 8 Jan, 10:14, Offramp wrote:

On Jan 7, 2:38*pm, "John Rowland"

wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5462099.ece

Weird stuff; I would think the departure next Tuesday would be quite
full.
Does anyone know if one can board at Ken Olymp? And if so, where?


No - it's just between Ealing Broadway and Wandsworth Road. The idea
is that the bus substitutes for a train service and covers a few
stretches of line (two in the Acton/Willesden Jn area, one in
Battersea) that are no longer served by a passenger train service -
the pretence is that the replacement bus continues to provide a
service over these lines (which is, to my mind at least, rather
absurd).

If you take a look at the uk.railway thread that I referred to in my
earlier reply on this thread [1] then you might get some more insight
into what's actually going on here that from just reading the
newspaper article - in particular there's a very interesting comment
from 'Andy' where he basically says that he thinks the DfT's
interpretation of the law is wrong, and also that he doesn't "think
that the law makes any mention of bus substitution being
acceptable." [2]

Agreed that after all this publicity I can well see a bunch of awkward-
squad bods turning up next Tuesday to ride on it!

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[1] "Parliamentary rail replacement service" thread on uk.railway (via
GG):
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....e4d2e87fdc5a4/

[2] Andy's specific post where he mentions this (via GG):
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....ddf3f792bacca7