Trivia; Help! The train service that replaced a suspended bus route?

[Howardh]

A few years ago a bus route was suspended due to road works, but - and this is where I'm guessing - a local preserved railway* (UK) was used as a replacement for that bus route. Is my mind playing tricks with me, or did that really happen? Was in the UK - and I'm aware of Tim Traveller's video about a helicopter replacing a train or bus in Switzerland, so it's not that one!!

*Might even have been a branch or main line??

Thanks!!

 

[SteveM70]

It was on the Talyllyn

The bus replacement train

 

[GCRS]

The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway operated a train replacement service for a couple of weeks during July 2016 while a local road was closed for repairs.

 

[Howardh]

Thanks and thanks!! That's exactly what I was trying to remember!!

 

[SteveM70]

https://www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-wales-48772940

This is the article the BBC ran on it

 

[Hairy Airey]

A few years ago a bus route was suspended due to road works, but - and this is where I'm guessing - a local preserved railway* (UK) was used as a replacement for that bus route. Is my mind playing tricks with me, or did that really happen? Was in the UK - and I'm aware of Tim Traveller's video about a helicopter replacing a train or bus in Switzerland, so it's not that one!!

*Might even have been a branch or main line??

Thanks!!

Tom Scott did a video on the Bus Replacement Rail Service

 

[norbitonflyer]

There was also the temporary station at Whitehaven North, provided to allow people (including, but not exclusively, bus passengers) to get from one side of the river to the other by train when the road bridge was washed out by floods

 

[Howardh]

Tom Scott did a video on the Bus Replacement Rail Service

Yes, I remember watching that!

 

[gg1]

There was also the temporary station at Whitehaven North, provided to allow people (including, but not exclusively, bus passengers) to get from one side of the river to the other by train when the road bridge was washed out by floods

You're a few miles too far south, it was Workington which had the temporary station.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

You're a few miles too far south, it was Workington which had the temporary station.

Indeed. The temporary Workington North station opened 30 November 2009 after the heavy flooding in the area ten days earlier, and remained in use for over 10 months.

 

[topydre]

There was an incident last year I think when a landslide near the Cambrian Main Line caused school bus services to feed into the train between Caersws and Machynlleth

 

[Ribbleman]

Back in January 2010 the East Lancs Railway mobilised one of its DMU sets to run several journeys between Bury and Ramsbottom when heavy snow blocked local roads.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

There was also the temporary station at Whitehaven North, provided to allow people (including, but not exclusively, bus passengers) to get from one side of the river to the other by train when the road bridge was washed out by floods

My goodness it may seem a trivial error but if you ever visit either town do not, for your own safety, mix them up!