There's no road/path access to Smallbrook Junction. It's a interchange station only.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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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.
But does it not say that there will be no service to Ryde Pier Head or Smallbrook Jcn regarding the replacement busesThere's no road/path access to Smallbrook Junction. It's a interchange station only.
It does indeed say just that. Smallbrook appears in the timetable IIRC.But does it not say that there will be no service to Ryde Pier Head or Smallbrook Jcn regarding the replacement buses
I don't know the exact pattern- but maybe it's an express RRB that terminates there?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.
But does it not say that there will be no service to Ryde Pier Head or Smallbrook Jcn regarding the replacement buses
Yes it is, as of late 2018Is Newbury Park step free?
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
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 would have just been stairs down to the platformsIt 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.
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.
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.Ryde Pier Head is being served by taxis from Esplanade.
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.