A rail replacement busSaw a strange sight today of a Single decker bus being dragged along the access service track of the line outside huddersfield this morning . A jcb pulling it and a network rail 4x4 ahead if it. What on earth was going on ?
Saw a strange sight today of a Single decker bus being dragged along the access service track of the line outside huddersfield this morning . A jcb pulling it and a network rail 4x4 ahead if it. What on earth was going on ?
It would appear to have been part of this training exercise:There’s been a large scale emergency service/Network Rail/TPE multi agency training exercise in Standedge Tunnel on Thursday. Whereabouts did you see this?
I'm intrigued as to what the scenario was there, that would involve a road vehicle underneath the Pennines... a hijacked bus taken into the tunnel? Seems a bit far-fetched... and a Stagecoach bus at that, so the hijackers must have come all the way from Manchester or Barnsley!
My post was slightly tongue-in-cheek of course. However if as you say the bus was a "stand-in" for a train in the scenario it does raise some questions...The bus was ‘the train’ in this scenario