Dr Hoo
Established Member
Hmm. During all my time as an operations manager on BR I never recall replacement buses (for flooding) being arranged pre-emptively.To be fair to the TOCs, wind damage is much less predictable than flooding, and generally railways are probably more susceptible to it than major roads are. But yes, thinking ahead to Storm Dennis, the railways should have a good understanding of where lines flood and what the chances are of a replacement bus getting through. BR certainly would have.
Can you provide some examples of where this was done?