Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
In practice you would have to walk to the nearest road/place with phone if no signal and call a taxi at your expense.
In practice you would have to walk to the nearest road/place with phone if no signal and call a taxi at your expense.
whats that one in wales in the back end of nowhere? Cardiff? No - Sugar Loaf?
A worthy mention could be Dent station - although it does have at least a road I guess, the village is just under 5 miles away.
Sugar Loaf Halt is less than a 100 yards from the main road
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.0820133,-3.6859411,247m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Dyfi Junction has no road access
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...86bd3ffa7589:0x252b9e5e88ac3b43!6m1!1e1?hl=en
What about Rannoch ( or whatever it's called exactly ) on the West Highland?
Altnabreac, though there is a dirt track there.
Rannoch is certainly accessible by public road and has a small hotel and a couple of houses nearby. As above, Corrour has an access track but it is not only rather inaccessible to the public, but also prone to being blocked completely by large maintenance vehicles doing whatever it is that large maintenance vehicles do at Corrour. Also snow, ice etc. There is however a café of sorts at Corrour station itself. Supplies to both the café at Corrour and hotel at Rannoch are often brought in by employees onboard trains from Fort William / Mallaig. Driving is seemingly done only when strictly necessary.
I'm not sure it has anything to do with 'perfection'. I am by no means perfect but you can bet you bottom dollar that if I was getting the last train from somewhere as remote as Berney Arms my entire days plan would include sufficient allowance to require the start of a zombie apocalypse in order for me to miss it.
Perhaps the passenger needs to take a modicum of responsibility for themselves?
I do agree, however, that if such a passenger made themselves known to the TOC via Twitter or phone call that a SSO would probably be granted. But no expectation of that could be held I feel which brings me back to the personal responsibility issue.
Beware the field around the station is quite rough (and flooded at the moment), you don't really want to be running across it
Nor standing around on the tiny platform as there be no seating (other than some bike racks!)
Getting away from the original spirit of the thread, if the pub is that remote (I have visited it twice many years ago), how was the Beer delivered?!!
Didn't know there was bike racks there, oh don't tell me GA have invested in some nice red bikes for Berney Arms lol
Is the shelter been replaced yet
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Think you can get to the pub by road
Getting away from the original spirit of the thread, if the pub is that remote (I have visited it twice many years ago), how was the Beer delivered?!!
Getting away from the original spirit of the thread, if the pub is that remote (I have visited it twice many years ago), how was the Beer delivered?!!
I suppose it would be possible to take refuge at the nearby Windmill or nature reserve buildings?
Getting away from the original spirit of the thread, if the pub is that remote (I have visited it twice many years ago), how was the Beer delivered?!!
There is vehicular access for owners and deliveries from the Acle Straight but no general public access by road.
Why not simply ensure you get to the station in time?
You do realise you're expressing moral indignation at comments made about a hypothetical situation?Because it is practically impossible to 100% guarentee getting anywhere on time... ...it is unfair to judge until you know the circumstances of any particular incident.