What is point in having a timetable

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Unbelievable but the 2329 is now showing in journey planners as a bus replacement service - but how would I know that after being told otherwise, I could easily have booked a taxi or a hotel based on the info I was given by Northern Rail. But I suppose there's still time for things to change again....

Not unbelievable - it means that Northern have been able to confirm that a bus will be available on the night(s) concerned. Whereas previously it was only planned to operate.

 

[Watershed]

Not unbelievable - it means that Northern have been able to confirm that a bus will be available on the night(s) concerned. Whereas previously it was only planned to operate.

All it means is that they intend to ask their replacement bus provider to run a bus then.

If, as is entirely possible, their provider can't source a bus company willing to do it at the rock bottom prices that Northern are willing to pay, there won't be a bus and you'll have to hope that they're going to put on a taxi rather than P-coding the bus and pretending it was never advertised.

Unbelievably, the resourcing of replacement buses doesn't start until a few days out in most cases.