It will go into the normal NR spoil handling process, in this case via Bescot.
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Landslip between Rugby and Coventry. (11/02/24)
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It will go into the normal NR spoil handling process, in this case via Bescot.
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dangie
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You can't be issued with a Penalty Fare or prosecuted for matters in relation to a replacement bus - by definition, it's not a train and those laws only apply to travel on the railway.
There's a potential argument that the NRCoT sanction of an Anytime single could still apply, but as it wasn't your friend's fault it wouldn't apply in his case anyway.
Northampton to Whitehaven is valid via Milton Keynes. Routeing Guide Easement 700438 relates:
The Planner
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NIghtmare at Rugeley, you have to cross the entire job and then bung up the up slow. Stafford is much more flexible.
OhNoAPacer
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I knew this easement did exist but wasn't sure if it still did, but now I do
My point still stands that it would help customers if the easement was explicitly stated during disruption to services.
Incidentally does routing 'via Rugby negate this?
No, it doesn't. I'm assuming the ticket has 'via Rugby' on it, if so you are going via Rugby having gone to Milton Keynes first.
Some tickets are routed 'via Long Buckby' and those would not be valid for travel via Milton Keynes.
Of course that includes tickets from Long Buckby - with the farcical result of there being tickets from Long Buckby via Long Buckby to Preston, for example.
Though the intent of the route restriction is clear to those who are well-informed, the average person would probably just consider it some sort of mistake and ignore it.
Bletchleyite
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Surely that would make more sense as "Not Wolverton", or is it only London you can negate?
DJ_K666
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You'd have to get the 96 from Northampton (and possibly encounter Yours Truly at the helm) to Rugby, clocking in at around 90 minutes and then another bus (or possibly the same one as 96s turn into something else) either the 86, taking 55 minutes, the 25 or the 85/A/B run by National Distress, also taking roughly an hour
Means Wolves is not omitted as a call and the train picks up booked path from Rugby.
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Joey Beauchamp
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I probably have encountered you then, or at least my wife, who catches the 96 twice a day, will have.
It's frustrating how long the 96 now takes to get to Rugby. I can accept going round Ryehill as it's important for elderly people, but the detour round DIRFT is getting silly now. Why do warehouse workers need dropping off outside the door? They are usually fit and healthy people who can walk to a bus stop.
It could be due to the fact it's a Stagecoach service and Stagecoach charge single tickets based on how far you travel (unlike National Distress for example.) If it goes to DIRFT then they can charge you more to go to Rugby as it's a longer journey time/route distance.
Joey Beauchamp
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That's interesting I never knew that.
In this case however, I think it's more to do with DIRFT chucking a load of money at Stagecoach as their logo had appeared all over the timetable, bus stops, etc...
mangyiscute
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Well if this DIRFT place is funding the bus route, I would be grateful for that since it'll keep the bus route running
Joey Beauchamp
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Yes, in the same way I'm grateful to the debt ridden, mass polluting water companies that I can still get clean water out of my tap.
D1537
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To be fair, from DIRFT South to DIRFT III it's over two miles, so there do need to be multiple stops; the 96 does appear to use a somewhat unnecessarily convoluted route, though.
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