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« on: December 12, 2022, 07:29:01 »
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Busy for a parliamentary train! The last run before withdrawal of the service, seen at West Ealing for West Ruislip on 7/12/22. — at West Ealing railway station.

The picture shows the Chiltern train that once a week used to run into Paddington but of late has been diverted to West Ealing.   I am somewhat out of touch - if the service is withdrawn, have we been through a closure procedure?
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2022, 08:02:44 »
Quote from: grahame on December 12, 2022, 07:29:01
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Busy for a parliamentary train! The last run before withdrawal of the service, seen at West Ealing for West Ruislip on 7/12/22. — at West Ealing railway station.

The picture shows the Chiltern train that once a week used to run into Paddington but of late has been diverted to West Ealing.   I am somewhat out of touch - if the service is withdrawn, have we been through a closure procedure?

A ‘technical’ non-closure I suspect, as a Wednesdays only rail replacement bus covers for the absent train, leaving West Ealing at 1117 and getting to West Ruislip at 1142, taking only six minutes longer than the train was scheduled to (although much quicker than the final rail service, which left on time but ended up 34 minutes late at West Ruislip - more time for those travellers enjoying one-last-trip to soak up the ambience I suppose?!).
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2022, 11:39:39 »
There has been no closure procedure. The Parliamentary train, and now bus service, involve providing a service over or past a critical junction somewhere north of Greenford. This junction chord would lose its passenger service, without a formal closure, and hence the Parliamentary gymnastics.   
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2022, 14:22:43 »
The same was done with a Tuesday only bus from Ealing Broadway to Wandsworth to cover the withdrawn Cross-Country route to Brighton via North Pole Jnc.  Think it lasted for years before it was withdrawn.  Started to attract quite a following in the community.  I think Geoff Marshall even ran a video of it.
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