PHILIPE
Veteran Member
Engineering Work is taking olace this week end with bustitution between Newport and Shrewsbury. This is an awfully long distance for bustitution with a journey time of 3hrs 25 mins. Surely Network Rail could have planned work better so that the route was closed either between Shrewsbury and Hereford or Hereford and Newport to avoid such a long bus journey. If passengers want to travel by train they would expect a train. This, I know is an old chestnut but bustitution should be minimised as far as possible
Journey Planner, of course, points towards the 3hr 25 min bus journey but it would have been possible to travel from Newport to Shrewsbury by train throughout changing at Birmingham New St with a saving of 10 minutes journey time. There would possibly have been ticketing issues here having to use XC and LM services.
Perhaps in BR days this could have happened but TOCs don't think of persuing such alternatives and arranging accordingly..
Journey Planner, of course, points towards the 3hr 25 min bus journey but it would have been possible to travel from Newport to Shrewsbury by train throughout changing at Birmingham New St with a saving of 10 minutes journey time. There would possibly have been ticketing issues here having to use XC and LM services.
Perhaps in BR days this could have happened but TOCs don't think of persuing such alternatives and arranging accordingly..