Contingency should the last bus on a route be unable to run.

Mark A

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Contingency should the last bus on a route be unable to run.

« on: November 04, 2023, 17:42:02 »

Does anyone know if bus companies make provision when for some reason the last bus of the day on a service is unable to run. (This applies to the 620 17:45 departure from Bath to Stroud service this evening, Stagecoach have announced its cancellation via ex twitter but haven't made any suggestions as to what the people relying on it to get home are meant to do.)

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Re: Contingency should the last bus on a route be unable to run.

« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2023, 18:04:35 »

Quote from: Mark A on November 04, 2023, 17:42:02

It's up to the bus company and they tend to do little or nothing. At the risk of pointing you to a competitor forum:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/bus-passenger-rights-stranded-if-last-bus-cancelled.177756/


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Re: Contingency should the last bus on a route be unable to run.

« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2023, 21:17:16 »

Thanks for this. In the case of the 620, Stagecoach may have delivered people out for the day to Yate or Bath and then been unable to return them home. It's unlikely that we'll hear from anyone stranded in this way and in any case it may be, for teenagers, parents or guardians will have turned out to retrieve them if they had a vehicle available. Others may not have been so fortunate.

Perhaps the bus company in this event quietly looks favourably on taxi receipts.

This has suddenly reminded me of back in the day - as teenagers - when the last bus from Coates to Cirencester didn't show up for some reason we never discovered, so we walked to Cirencester, missing the last bus connection there - at around ten thirty pm - to Lechlade, which is where we needed to be.

Drawing on part 1 of a family experience of strandings, but in the event not needing to implement part 2, we presented ourselves at the police station, where various police people put their heads together, and after a bit of conversation, ran us to Lechlade in one of their finest police cars - a half timbered morris traveller - which at one point on the lonely A417 hit 76 mph...

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Re: Contingency should the last bus on a route be unable to run.

« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2023, 06:57:27 »

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a half timbered morris traveller

Not that extremely rare beast a half timbered Morris Oxford, although I am not sure the police ever had them.


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Mark A

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Re: Contingency should the last bus on a route be unable to run.

« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2023, 12:40:00 »

One of these, and, ah, there's a diecast model available:

https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/morris-minor-traveller-wolverhampton-police-nmmt004

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