12 hour journey

[johncas]

I was reading in the local paper Leicester Mercury about some passengers who at kettering station wanted to get a train to London but could not did not say why so they had to get a rail replacement bus to London via Derby and Crew so a 70 mile train trip turned in to 250 mile coach journey and the passengers got to London 12 hours late and changing buses 7 times network rail cant even provide a replacement bus to London you go round the country first I mean why go to Crew via Derby cheaper to hire a bus and take them to London

Why don't they just have one replacement bus for all the closed lines

[yorkie]

This didn't actually happen and your post doesn't make much sense to me.

A journey planner apparently suggested a rather long journey, but there is no evidence to suggest that anyone actually carried out that journey.

[LeeEAS]

Perhaps he's on about this? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... article.do

[6rdfar90]

This didn't actually happen and your post doesn't make much sense to me.

A journey planner apparently suggested a rather long journey, but there is no evidence to suggest that anyone actually carried out that journey.

If you want to be cynical like that, isn't your place over at Railforums ??

[yorkie]

Perhaps he's on about this? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... article.do

Yep that's the one, no suggestion that anyone actually undertook the journey.

TransportDirect has probably come up with worse suggestions before anyway.

[Easilyconfused]

OK gents - settle down please. I'd like a nice quiet evening working on a few bits and pieces - not wielding the moderator tools in here. If people start making it personal then I and the other moderators will wield the tools as appropriate.

It was a "non-story" since there is no evidence to suggest anyone actually tried to follow the directions of a poorly functioning web site.

[arabiandisco]

Fairly standard media rail-bashing nonsense. You can get rubbish like that out of train planning software all the time, normally involving spending 4 hours on Stafford station between 0200 and 0600 or something similar - depends what time you want to leave really.

[AlistairW]

Nobody made the journey it was a fault somewhere in the magical world of the internet that suggested a rather round about route. Much like the ones that Top Gear highlighted regarding road directions where a certain route planner told people to take the ferry to France and back, haha.

As far as I'm aware today EMT was offering an all stations Sheffield - London service in the middle of the day and busses for all other routes.

NR this time have nothing to do with it.