Lines that escaped Beeching but were closed anyway

>Wasn't that recommended for closure in Beeching's report, but had to
>remain open until certain road improvements were made? I think this
>was to allow replacement buses to operate.

That's correct. No bus could have served all those stations, or not
without huge diversions. Many minor roads were far too narrow. There
was a problematic crossing of the South Tyne, but once a practicable
bridge was built that solved the problem and the line was closed.

It would be interesting to find out what sort of bus service connects
Haltwhistle and Alston nowadays.

>It's not exactly hard to find out, now there's that new-fangled internet thing :)

Oh, I knew that, it was a sort of rhetorical question.

Now you've found it, it's notable that there are no through buses from
Haltwhistle station to Alston OVV - you have to change.

I like the idea of travelling with Wright Bros, though.....

<oliver_twomey@m> wrote in message
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> >It's not exactly hard to find out, now there's that new-fangled internet
thing :)
>
> Oh, I knew that, it was a sort of rhetorical question.
>
> Now you've found it, it's notable that there are no through buses from
> Haltwhistle station to Alston OVV - you have to change.
>
I suspect that when the train ran, quite a proportion of passengers were
travelling to/from Carlisle, Hexham, or Newcastle - there were no through
trains to/from Alston - you had to change at Haltwhistle (which I always
thought was an entirely appropriate name for a station). There are through
buses between Alston and these places.

Peter