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TRIVIA: Places with a railway station but no bus service

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AY1975

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Not sure whether this belongs under railway discussion, infrastructure and stations, or buses and coaches, but can anyone think of any places in Britain that have a railway station but no bus service?

I am mainly thinking of places with a railway station on the national rail network, but places with a station on a preserved railway that are not served by any buses also count.
 
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Likewise on the West Highland Line. Also, what about Beaulieu Road in the New Forest (with the exception of the New Forest Tour). Also, what about Micheldever (although it may have a bus once a week or something).
 

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Micheldever has a bus three days a week. So does Digswell (Welwyn North station), although it also has a school bus. Those places are in any case very small villages, but for a proper town how about Millom? It has a school bus to Barrow, but no bus service for the general public.

It's in Ireland, but Cobh has no bus service at all.
 

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How do you define the correlation between the bus and train service. Is it actually the physical station served by both bus and train or a location with a rail station and a nearby bus service?
 

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How do you define the correlation between the bus and train service. Is it actually the physical station served by both bus and train or a location with a rail station and a nearby bus service?

I'd assume it would be a bus service to the same area (for example a village) to where a train station is situated.
 

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All of the stations on the line between (but of course not including) Dorchester West and Yeovil Pen Mill serve villages with no bus service, having lost them in the Dorset CC cuts a couple of years ago.
 

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I'd assume it would be a bus service to the same area (for example a village) to where a train station is situated.
That's what I was thinking. I know of a few places where the bus service serves the same location, but may be a little way from the actual rail station.
 

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I'm fairly certain Appleford in Oxfordshire and King's Sutton in Northamptonshire don't have bus routes serving them although they have infrequent train services.
 

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Without spending too much time checking:
Heart of Wales line stations - several un-served - but then again the stations don't serve places either.
Esk Valley line stations - Great Ayton to Commondale? Some others just have summer Sunday services.
The remote West Highland line stations yet the Mallaig extension does have a parallel bus service.
 

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Thorntonhall near East Kilbride has a rail station but no bus service.

I don't think there's any buses in Mallaig neither which is at the end of the West Highland line.

I visited Cobh, County Cork over 30 years ago and I don't remember any buses running but there is a rail station.
 

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Mallaig has a bus to Fort William. Rannoch, on the other hand... I'm assuming doesn't ;)
 

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I think Somerleyton almost counts. the village only has a bus on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
 

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Styal has the T2 - three return trips per day, four days per week, but it's only available for passengers travelling to/from Handforth Dean retail park. It's free.
 

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Causeland on the Looe Valley Line, and arguably St Keyne as well.

Causeland is essentially non-existent as a place - unless the three holiday homes and a farm close-by refer to themselves under that locality, but it serves the villages of Trewidland and Duloe, with are either side of the station up an extremely steep hill. St Keyne Wishing Well Halt (how's that for a name!) is down the same steep hill from St Keyne Village. St Keyne and Duloe have PCB Bus 73, but Trewidland doesn't have anything... I don't even think the mobile bank visits any more!
 

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I visited Cobh, County Cork over 30 years ago and I don't remember any buses running but there is a rail station.
Cóbh got a bus service for the first time in 2017

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Ne...ether-5978f41b-2ba6-4a20-bdde-f6933ec7b9e7-ds
30.10.2017 10:44
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An aerial shot of Cobh, which will be connected to Cork city via bus for the first time tomorrow. Picture: Richard Mills.

New bus route brings Cobh and Cork closer together
Roisin Burke
For the first time, Cobh residents and visitors can travel between the port town and city centre via a regular bus service.

A new, high frequency, coach service Cobh Connect will now be travelling to and from Cork City, starting tomorrow on Halloween.

At present, there is no public bus service to accommodate people travelling to and from Cobh to the city with the Cobh to Cork train service providing public transport to the city.

It is hoped this bus service will benefit the people of Cobh in terms of tourism and also in terms of increasing people’s travel options.

Cobh Connect, is an Irish owned company which will operate six days a week and have multiple designated pickup and drop off points located around the town on its journey to Cork City.

Beginning at 7.15am, the bus will journey to Cork City finishing at Patricks Quay and continue into the evening, with the last pick-up from Cork City Centre at 6.45pm.

All buses offer free wifi and charging points.

Michael O Longaigh, Chief Operations Officer for Cobh Connect said: “For years now Cobh locals have struggled to commute both around their town of Cobh but also to the city.

"Many parts of Cobh are quite rural and currently inaccessible to public transport, so this service will now connect residents from the like of O’Neills Place to Passage West Ferry via Rushbrooke and Ballynoe Park.

“Since we announced the implementation of the new public bus service locally we have been overwhelmed with the positive response we have received. This service is long overdue and we are excited to get the Cobh Connect fleet on the roads.”

Fares for the Cobh Connect include adult single (€4) and adult day return (€6), a student single rate (€2.50) and student return (€4), 10 journey ticket (€22 adult, €18 student), and Cobh Bus run (internally within Cobh only) (€1.50).

For more information on Cobh Connect see www.cobhconnect.ie
 

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Mallaig has a bus to Fort William. Rannoch, on the other hand... I'm assuming doesn't ;)

Rannoch doesn't. Nor does Corrour (obviously). Roybridge and Tulloch also have no bus service (as far as I know). All the other small stations along the WHL are served either by Citylink coaches (Glasgow-Ft William/Skye) or Shiel Buses (Ft William - Mallaig)
 

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It use to have the schooldays only service 200 which was withdrawn a few years back, it also had the 260 that was lost in 2011. Now its just a rail service.


I don't think Wressle in the East Riding of Yorkshire has any buses serving it, just a limited rail service.
 

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Rannoch doesn't. Nor does Corrour (obviously). Roybridge and Tulloch also have no bus service (as far as I know). All the other small stations along the WHL are served either by Citylink coaches (Glasgow-Ft William/Skye) or Shiel Buses (Ft William - Mallaig)

Roy Bridge has the N41 on a 2 hourly frequency plus the 510/513.
 

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Dent - buses summer saturdays only
Clapham(Yorks). Yes I know the 580/581/582 Skipton - Lancaster goes through Clapham but that is a long long way from Clapham Station!
 

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Avoncliff, Ryde Pier Head and Smallbrook Junction.

West Kensington and Covent Garden on the Tube both don’t have bus routes serving them.
 
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