What is the longest distance rail replacement bus that you have seen? I would be curious to hear of any examples that anyone has seen?
Normally when lines are closed they split up the buses and you have to change. I know one time the East Coastway line was closed for engineering work they had separate Three Bridges to Lewes and Lewes to Eastbourne and Eastbourne to Hastings buses. So often the rail replacement buses do not run that far.
Last year i remember seeing a rail replacement bus from Brighton to London St Pancras when the last train of the day was cancelled. I have no idea why it went all the way to London St Pancras when Three Bridges and Gatwick Airport have overnight services.
The longest i have ever had was a Portsmouth Harbour to Brighton bus. That was about eight years ago during the DOO dispute when they had severe staff shortages. The last four trains of the day were cancelled so they put on just one bus to replace a bunch of cancelled trains.
It called at every single minor station and even diverted to serve Bognor Regis and Littlehampton and Arundel for some reason (Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth And Southsea, Fratton, Hilsea, Bedhampton, Havant, Warblington, Emsworth, Southbourne, Nutbourne, Bosham, Fishbourne, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Barnham, Ford, Littlehampton, Arundel, Angmering, Goring By Sea, Durrington On Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, East Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham By Sea, Southwick, Fishersgate, Portslade, Aldrington, Hove, Brighton) making it extremely long. The bus had to do long diversion down minor roads in order to serve each station.
It ended up taking just over four hours. I think it was about four hours and thirty minutes total. To make it worse i had to stand for the entire journey. It was an Enviro 200 bus and was absolutely crammed with people standing all down the aisle for the entire journey. By the time we got to Brighton it was so late that all of the Northbound trains had long gone so they booked me a taxi home and it took an hour for that taxi to turn up. I got home about 06:00 in the morning instead of about 00:00 so over six hours late.
I would be interested to hear what the furthest distance rail replacement bus you have seen is? I presume there must be some long distance ones covering the last train of the day being cancelled rather than engineering work?
Normally when lines are closed they split up the buses and you have to change. I know one time the East Coastway line was closed for engineering work they had separate Three Bridges to Lewes and Lewes to Eastbourne and Eastbourne to Hastings buses. So often the rail replacement buses do not run that far.
Last year i remember seeing a rail replacement bus from Brighton to London St Pancras when the last train of the day was cancelled. I have no idea why it went all the way to London St Pancras when Three Bridges and Gatwick Airport have overnight services.
The longest i have ever had was a Portsmouth Harbour to Brighton bus. That was about eight years ago during the DOO dispute when they had severe staff shortages. The last four trains of the day were cancelled so they put on just one bus to replace a bunch of cancelled trains.
It called at every single minor station and even diverted to serve Bognor Regis and Littlehampton and Arundel for some reason (Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth And Southsea, Fratton, Hilsea, Bedhampton, Havant, Warblington, Emsworth, Southbourne, Nutbourne, Bosham, Fishbourne, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Barnham, Ford, Littlehampton, Arundel, Angmering, Goring By Sea, Durrington On Sea, West Worthing, Worthing, East Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham By Sea, Southwick, Fishersgate, Portslade, Aldrington, Hove, Brighton) making it extremely long. The bus had to do long diversion down minor roads in order to serve each station.
It ended up taking just over four hours. I think it was about four hours and thirty minutes total. To make it worse i had to stand for the entire journey. It was an Enviro 200 bus and was absolutely crammed with people standing all down the aisle for the entire journey. By the time we got to Brighton it was so late that all of the Northbound trains had long gone so they booked me a taxi home and it took an hour for that taxi to turn up. I got home about 06:00 in the morning instead of about 00:00 so over six hours late.
I would be interested to hear what the furthest distance rail replacement bus you have seen is? I presume there must be some long distance ones covering the last train of the day being cancelled rather than engineering work?
