Re: Fishguard to lose train service?

the absent minded professor wrote:


Now, if you go up the coast from Fishguard you reach Cardigan - another
former rail outpost and further up the western coast is Aberystwyth and
you have the makings of another high quality bus route.


A couple of years ago I travelled by bus from Aberystwyth to New Quay,
and a few days later from New Quay to Fishguard.

The first trip was delayed by over an hour because the police
had closed the road while they cut someone out of a car accident.
The bus cleared off and left us sat outsise a remote petrol
station.

The second involved a change at Cardigan and seemed to take forever.

I was sure glad to see that Class 37!


I'm as passionate as anyone about rail, but sometimes i think the rail
lobbyists lose sight of reality and common sense when it comes to
transport problems.


And I think the advocates of buses lose sight of the general
unpleasantness of travel by bus.

Charlie





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