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.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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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.
--
Roland Perry
There are usually signboards at such stations stating where the pickup /
drop down points are. This information (in the event of planned engineering
works) is often promulgated around the affected area. Local regular rail
passengers who have experienced rail replacement buses at their station in
thepast, will also know that the bus stops at the bottom of the road, not
the station. Taxi drivers will certainly know - they will point out to a
passenger wanting to go to the station, that the bus is replacing it, and
take them there instead, (especially if it is a bit further!). And most
peoplem use their common sense, however that is not infallible.

In message , at
14:14:43 on Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Portsmouth Rider
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.

There are usually signboards at such stations stating where the pickup /
drop down points are.

Not as far as I can tell.

This information (in the event of planned engineering works) is often
promulgated around the affected area. Local regular rail passengers who
have experienced rail replacement buses at their station in thepast,
will also know that the bus stops at the bottom of the road, not the
station.

Outside the rush hour, a lot of travellers are not regulars.

Taxi drivers will certainly know - they will point out to a passenger
wanting to go to the station, that the bus is replacing it, and take
them there instead, (especially if it is a bit further!).

The scenarios where I have been bustituted were in areas with virtually
no taxis. Only the very busiest (and mainly urban) stations have taxi
ranks.

And most peoplem use their common sense, however that is not
infallible.

Common sense says that if a rail trip is bustituted, the bus will stop
at the staion.
--
Roland Perry

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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel