buses required on the Looe branch

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buses required on the Looe branch

« on: December 15, 2014, 20:04:48 »

unusually... due to the Christmas Coca Cola truck in town!!


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Re: buses required on the Looe branch

« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2014, 20:43:50 »


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Re: buses required on the Looe branch

« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2014, 21:11:12 »

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Coca-Cola-truck-Looe-pictures-festive-fun/story-25712690-detail/story.html

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The famous Coca-Cola truck visited Looe yesterday(Mon), on its tour of 45 locations across the UK^▸ .

Hundreds of people queued up from midday to have their picture taken with the truck, while stalls selling Christmas gifts and food and drink lined the quayside car park and gospel singers entertained the crowds with festive songs.

Looe is the smallest place the Coca-Cola truck has ever been to. The visit was set up by the mayor, Councillor David Bryan, who wrote to the company asking them to help bring some Christmas cheer to the town.

Read more: http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Coca-Cola-truck-Looe-pictures-festive-fun/story-25712690-detail/story.html#ixzz3M0FxTV9F
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Re: buses required on the Looe branch

« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2014, 22:22:36 »

Call that a Christmas treat? Not even a train. Try this...

http://www.cpr.ca/holiday-train/canada

This causes great excitement in a country that has lost most of it's long distance passenger trains in the west.


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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2014, 15:18:13 »

Why are buses (presumably rail-replacment) required because of a truck on a road? Was it parked blocking a level crossing?


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Re: buses required on the Looe branch

« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2014, 15:49:25 »

Quote from: Rhydgaled on December 16, 2014, 15:18:13

Why are buses (presumably rail-replacment) required because of a truck on a road? Was it parked blocking a level crossing?

No unfortunately hundreds if not thousands of people were excited by a lorry in coke livery to go to the town and somehow needed transporting and the looe branch train couldn't cope.


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Re: buses required on the Looe branch

« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2014, 23:51:17 »

Quote from: richwarwicker on December 16, 2014, 15:49:25

No unfortunately hundreds if not thousands of people were excited by a lorry in coke livery to go to the town and somehow needed transporting and the looe branch train couldn't cope.


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« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2014, 08:52:56 »

Quote from: richwarwicker on December 16, 2014, 15:49:25

Quote from: Rhydgaled on December 16, 2014, 15:18:13

Why are buses (presumably rail-replacment) required because of a truck on a road? Was it parked blocking a level crossing?

No unfortunately hundreds if not thousands of people were excited by a lorry in coke livery to go to the town and somehow needed transporting and the looe branch train couldn't cope.

Oh, ok, so the train still ran, just there were not enough carriages on it so passengers had to use buses.


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Re: buses required on the Looe branch

« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2014, 12:50:46 »

And we got the branch line train strengthened to a Cl150 from its usual Cl153 (thanks to FGW^▸ for doing this.)


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