Bowes Park springs to mind as a station which cannot be reached by a rail replacement bus service, a station accessed by passengers only via a public footbridge. There is no station frontage on the street. Are there any similar stations which cannot be served by rail replacement buses?
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Stations with restricted road access
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Elecman
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Chapel-en-le-Frith cannot be reached by a rail replacement bus.
swt_passenger
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There’ll be dozens if not hundreds.
St Denys. Nearest they get is a road junction a few hundred yards away.
Redbridge.
St Denys. Nearest they get is a road junction a few hundred yards away.
Redbridge.
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Ash Bridge
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Dovey Junction must be a contender?
dk1
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Brundall Gardens is definite no go.
Esker-pades
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IBM Halt.
Llanigraham
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Dyffryn Ardudwy, the bus stops up in the village.
Polarbear
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Entwistle would be entertaining with anything larger than a minibus too!
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though still stop for there. not sure how far the walk is. they don't go down to Brundall ethier though there is obviously a road. driver also thought is was fine to play thrash metal, just what you want late at night at the end of a long journey
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westcoaster
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Humphrey park had no road access.
dk1
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Used to stop at the top of West End Ave for the Gardens but now it's a 10min walk to Cucumber Lane.
There was a time when buses went down to & reversed into a Brundall car park. These days it's the top of the hill.
No accounting for their musical taste
urpert
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Couple in outer London:
Ravensbourne is tricky because of narrow roads and sharp bends. Since the 354 (which stops nearby) got a Sunday service they don’t bother with running a mini RRB any more.
Similar situation with Nunhead.
Ravensbourne is tricky because of narrow roads and sharp bends. Since the 354 (which stops nearby) got a Sunday service they don’t bother with running a mini RRB any more.
Similar situation with Nunhead.
And a short section of the road past the station was unmade until quite recently, because it was in Lewisham while the Bromley bits were tarmacked in the 60s.
Dstock7080
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Smallbrook Junction ?
Dr Hoo
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Ryde Pier Head.
Various stations with longish, narrowish access roads or country lanes. E.g. Edale, Hathersage and Grindleford.
Even Sunderland is quite hard to get close to by public road.
Various stations with longish, narrowish access roads or country lanes. E.g. Edale, Hathersage and Grindleford.
Even Sunderland is quite hard to get close to by public road.
kieron
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Hawarden Bridge is a station rail replacement buses can't get close to. The station is on a viaduct above a private road. I don't know what the access is like between them, but there's nothing on the side of the line with public access.
There were rail replacement buses in use yesterday. None of them were scheduled to call at Hawarden Bridge, although every train would call on request in the normal Sunday timetable.
There were rail replacement buses in use yesterday. None of them were scheduled to call at Hawarden Bridge, although every train would call on request in the normal Sunday timetable.
hexagon789
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Manulla Junction, Ireland. Purely exists as an interchange between the Westport line and the Ballina branch.
Llangynllo - You would have to park in someone's drive or park briefly in a narrow country lane and hope no tractor is coming for a couple of minutes
Commondale - RRB is in the village half a mile back. Station is actually at the bottom of a sheep field with stiles at either end.
Commondale - RRB is in the village half a mile back. Station is actually at the bottom of a sheep field with stiles at either end.
A couple in London:
Northolt Park - In the middle of a residential area with no RRB access. Advice is to use local bus routes and the Central Line from Northolt or Piccadilly Line from South Harrow
Angel Road - Accessed by a concrete walkway at track level. Nearest bus stopping points are about a quarter of a mile a way on a Hail and Ride section of route 192 (Enfield - Tottenham Hale) and over half a mile away on routes 34 (Barnet Church - Walthamstow Central) and 444 (Turnpike Lane - Chingford).
Northolt Park - In the middle of a residential area with no RRB access. Advice is to use local bus routes and the Central Line from Northolt or Piccadilly Line from South Harrow
Angel Road - Accessed by a concrete walkway at track level. Nearest bus stopping points are about a quarter of a mile a way on a Hail and Ride section of route 192 (Enfield - Tottenham Hale) and over half a mile away on routes 34 (Barnet Church - Walthamstow Central) and 444 (Turnpike Lane - Chingford).
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A few on the Tattenham Corner line.
Reedham - only accessible through a housing development with flats.
Woodmansterne - Bridge access only.
Chipstead - Access via Station Approach which is a cul de sac crowded out by parked cars.
The RR buses use the regular bus stops on the Brighton Road at Reedham and Coulsdon Town*** (which is accessible, but easier to use the regular stop), and on Chipstead Valley Road for Woodmansterne. FWIR at Chipstead the buses stop on Outwood Lane at the bottom of Station Approach (no regular bus stop there).
*** - when Coulsdon Town is used as the start/end of the RR bus route (e.g. serving Coulsdon-Redhill-Gatwick when Stoats Nest Junction is undergoing work) the buses do go up to the ticket office beside platform 2, and car access is severely restricted.
Reedham - only accessible through a housing development with flats.
Woodmansterne - Bridge access only.
Chipstead - Access via Station Approach which is a cul de sac crowded out by parked cars.
The RR buses use the regular bus stops on the Brighton Road at Reedham and Coulsdon Town*** (which is accessible, but easier to use the regular stop), and on Chipstead Valley Road for Woodmansterne. FWIR at Chipstead the buses stop on Outwood Lane at the bottom of Station Approach (no regular bus stop there).
*** - when Coulsdon Town is used as the start/end of the RR bus route (e.g. serving Coulsdon-Redhill-Gatwick when Stoats Nest Junction is undergoing work) the buses do go up to the ticket office beside platform 2, and car access is severely restricted.
Not really. Gibbon Road is not ideal for buses but TFL seem to be able to run them past Nunhead station all day every day. It's a busy road with shops and housing. The low bridge restricts the use of double deckers but it's not inaccessible by RRB by any stretch of the imagination. I've been on RRBs that have stopped there.
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Stanlow and Thornton has restricted road access being sited within an oil refinery on a private road. Also a very restricted timetable for that matter.
Baildon in West Yorkshire. RRBs cannot access the station as the closest route from the A6038 (Otley Road) involves a narrow and weak bridge, and the longer route would add too much time to the journey. So the allocated RRB stop is on the A6038 (opposite the Halfway House pub), but is not the most obvious choice not being the closest one or easiest to reach (this being one stop up at Hoyle Court Road, or one further up at Roundwood Road). And as far as I can recall, there is no signage showing the route between the station & the stop, so if you don't know the area you are stuffed!
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