TRIVIA: Replacement Bus Services calling at stations off line of route

[cav1975]

For the next two weekends Island Line (South Western Railway) are running rail replacement buses from Ryde Esplanade to Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as the station at Smallbrook Junction is closed.

 

[Ken H]

When they had the landslip at the northern end of the Settle Carlisle, were there not RRB's from Appleby to Penrith?

 

[si404]

When the Met line in the Amersham-Rickmansworth area is closed for engineering works there's two examples:

1) Chiltern's RRB is Amersham-Beaconsfield (also when Marylebone is closed, with the Met line providing some rail-replacement aspect for the Beaconsfield-London journeys, though they tend to run trains to West Ealing as well)
2) The Met line RRB goes Chesham-Amersham-Chalfont...

Chiltern had a closure between Beaconsfield and Dorridge in June and the RRBs from Warwickshire ran to Aylesbury Vale Parkway (there was a bus doing the stops south of Banbury).

 

[Lewlew]

For the next two weekends Island Line (South Western Railway) are running rail replacement buses from Ryde Esplanade to Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as the station at Smallbrook Junction is closed.
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There's no road/path access to Smallbrook Junction. It's a interchange station only.

 

[Andyjs247]

Chiltern have RRBs running today Bicester North to Bicester Village then to Aylesbury Vale Parkway

 

[DavidGrain]

When XC trains are diverted via Lichfield then a bus (or sometimes taxis) run between Lichfield and Tamworth rather than putting on buses Birmingham-Tamworth-Burton on Trent which would be an exact replacement service.

 

[Parallel]

GWR have run a RRB between Pewsey and Swindon before, so passengers can change at Swindon for services to Reading and London presumably.

Would’ve been nice for the buses to have stopped in Marlborough!

 

[EllieAquitrain]

When the ECML is shut between Welwyn Garden City and Finsbury Park, Great Northern often run a RRB via Oakwood Tube station to allow passengers the option of faster access to London.

Hang on, why Oakwood? Surely an ECML RRB would run right past Cockfosters station then south past Southgate station if it were skipping minor stops or west through East Barnet towards Oakleigh Park otherwise. Genuinely can't see why it would turn east to Oakwood station there.

 

[Mollman]

Went to Newquay when there was engineering work, RRB started from St Austell instead of Par

 

[341o2]

There's no road/path access to Smallbrook Junction. It's a interchange station only.

But does it not say that there will be no service to Ryde Pier Head or Smallbrook Jcn regarding the replacement buses

 

[30907]

But does it not say that there will be no service to Ryde Pier Head or Smallbrook Jcn regarding the replacement buses

It does indeed say just that. Smallbrook appears in the timetable IIRC.

 

[Steddenm]

I did have a RRB from Kirkham & Wesham to Blackpool South drop me off at my house once but that isn't that far from BPS.

 

[bicbasher]

ELL and Jubilee Line RRBs call at Tower Hill and I think Aldgate for additional rail connections.

There have also been instances when the ELL RRBs between New Cross Gate and West Croydon which Southern manage have been extended to Sutton and also additionally call at Selhurst.

One that has never happened but would make sense would be for the SLL bus services to call at East Dulwich. They just go past on their way between Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye.

 

[jopsuk]

Hang on, why Oakwood? Surely an ECML RRB would run right past Cockfosters station then south past Southgate station if it were skipping minor stops or west through East Barnet towards Oakleigh Park otherwise. Genuinely can't see why it would turn east to Oakwood station there.

I don't know the exact pattern- but maybe it's an express RRB that terminates there?

 

[LancasterRed]

I've been on a Greater Anglia bus service that terminated at Leyton, putting us onto the tube to carry onto Liverpool Street.

 

[SargeNpton]

But does it not say that there will be no service to Ryde Pier Head or Smallbrook Jcn regarding the replacement buses

Ryde Pier Head is being served by taxis from Esplanade.

 

[Class800]

Greater Anglia RRBs have sometimes run into Newbury Park for Central Line to Liverpool Street - never seen Leyton option being used, but not saying it hasn't

 

[telstarbox]

Is Newbury Park step free?

 

[Lewlew]

Is Newbury Park step free?

Yes it is, as of late 2018

Mayor and council leader visit new step-free station at Newbury Park

Thousands of customers to benefit from the modernised step-free station each day.

www.london.gov.uk

 

[LancasterRed]

Greater Anglia RRBs have sometimes run into Newbury Park for Central Line to Liverpool Street - never seen Leyton option being used, but not saying it hasn't

It might have been Newbury Park. Leyton is what I remember but I might have got the names mixed up due to being near Leyton Orient's ground

 

[Class800]

Yes it is, as of late 2018

Mayor and council leader visit new step-free station at Newbury Park

Thousands of customers to benefit from the modernised step-free station each day.

www.london.gov.uk

It was way before 2018 when I was on the RRB to Newbury Park - maybe 2013 or so. There was an escalator - but nothing else I think.

 

[Lewlew]

It was way before 2018 when I was on the RRB to Newbury Park - maybe 2013 or so. There was an escalator - but nothing else I think.

It would have just been stairs down to the platforms

 

[n37077]

The ECML RRBS from Potters Bar serves Cockfosters and Oamwood. Oakwood has step free access, Cockfosters doesn't. It does not go past Southgate to get there.

 

[Dave W]

This may not be the point of the topic, but as there's lots of talk of the GOBLIN's RRBs being split in two - there's also the weird routeing that the buses take in Crouch Hill - rather than call at the bus stops serving the station, the RRBs drop passengers off at stops on Fairbridge Road - a solid half mile's walk away.

I suspect that doesn't quite meet the OP's description - as the stops are the designated RRB stops for the station - but they're hardly convenient for the station itself!

 

[Class 170101]

The ECML RRBS from Potters Bar serves Cockfosters and Oamwood. Oakwood has step free access, Cockfosters doesn't. It does not go past Southgate to get there.

Does Oakwood have lots of space to hold buses there when compared to Cockfosters.

 

[TheLastMinute]

How about RRBs between Bristol Parkway and Patchway as there's normally no direct rail service between the two? Happens when the Paddington to South Wales services are diverted via Bath and call at Patchway instead or when the tunnel is closed.

 

[island]

When Cannon Street and hence Deptford to Westcombe Park, New Cross and St. Johns are closed of a weekend RRB usually runs Lewisham-New Cross-Deptford-Maze Hill-Westcombe Park-Charlton. (Not sure what passengers for St. Johns are meant to do, although it’s hardly a long walk from Lewisham.)

 

[swt_passenger]

Ryde Pier Head is being served by taxis from Esplanade.

To add to the explanation that’s because normal sized “buses” are no longer allowed on Ryde Pier, I think nowadays a height barrier rules out anything higher than a light van.

 

[cuccir]

I've seen timetables with rail replacements on the Settle-Carlisle calling at Hawes, which doesn't have a station, and in Kirby Stephen town centre, rather than at the station. I think they also tend to skip Dent and use local taxi services to get people to/from it. If you look at the local area, the line follows a route that would require lengthy diversions over moorland roads and/or steep hills to hit all the stations.

 

[SargeNpton]

I've seen timetables with rail replacements on the Settle-Carlisle calling at Hawes, which doesn't have a station, and in Kirby Stephen town centre, rather than at the station. I think they also tend to skip Dent and use local taxi services to get people to/from it. If you look at the local area, the line follows a route that would require lengthy diversions over moorland roads and/or steep hills to hit all the stations.

I think that the Hawes stop is for the Dent taxi conenction.