| How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by grahame at 20:15, 23rd December 2025 |     |
From a Facebook post concerning Cynghordy where the bus now calls (according to a comment) on the main road.
In the Great Western area, Avoncliff has become almost as bad - with the rail replacement buses calling in Westwood, some distance from the station and the walk to the bus is a significant uphill along a road under the trees that's very slippery in leaf fall season. Are there any other stations where the RRB calls only a significant distance away?
| Re: How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by CyclingSid at 06:37, 24th December 2025 | |
Christs Hospital. Was on an RRB from Horsham and was dropped in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere. Fortunately I was not immediately concerned about the station, just doing one half of the Downs Link on the bike.
| Re: How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by Marlburian at 10:05, 24th December 2025 | |
On a couple of occasions before Lockdown I turned up at Tilehurst on a Sunday hoping to catch the first train to Paddington, only to find there was a replacement bus. On the first occasion I naively assumed that the bus would draw up on the station forecourt where there was a delineated space for buses that at one time provided a service direct to the station during the rush hour. Only the first time the bus stopped on the main road. A year later there was also a replacement bus, so I hovered hopefully outside the station, only to see the bus whizz past me and stop at a regular stop 200 yards down the road - too far for me to run to catch it. Subsequently the electronic board at the station did direct one to that stop.
| Re: How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 13:16, 25th December 2025 | |
We are fortunate at Nailsea & Backwell station, in that any Rail Replacement Bus services use the regular bus stops - both of which are within just a few yards walk of the railway station.
Perhaps even more fortunately, we seldom have any need for replacement buses, being on the Great Western main line and only 9 miles from Bristol. Trains tend to be put through here, almost no matter what else is going on.
| Re: How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by plymothian at 16:22, 25th December 2025 | |
Are there any other stations where the RRB calls only a significant distance away?
Courrour?
Berney Arms doesn't even get a RRB, passengers are told to go to Reedham or Great Yarmouth instead.
| Re: How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by eXPassenger at 16:52, 25th December 2025 | |
Are there any other stations where the RRB calls only a significant distance away?
Courrour?
Berney Arms doesn't even get a RRB, passengers are told to go to Reedham or Great Yarmouth instead.
I take it that a RRB for Berney Arms would be a Rail Replacement Boat.
| Re: How far from the station is the rail replacement bus stop? Posted by welshman at 18:24, 25th December 2025 | |
Dovey Junction is a mile along the footpath to the A487 - the nearest road.
