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Irregular Passenger Trains over obscure routes

Bordesley only has one train a week 13:40 on Saturdays, but trains do stop other times when City are at home
 
Weren't parliamentary trains the name given to those services run on behalf of the poorer working class who wouldn't normally be able to afford the new form of travel.

In short, they were subsidised services with a flat rate fare.
 
Neville Philpott said:
Weren't parliamentary trains the name given to those services run on behalf of the poorer working class who wouldn't normally be able to afford the new form of travel.

In short, they were subsidized services with a flat rate fare.
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Your partly right, it has another connotation now. they came about due to 9 Stonemasons who were killed traveling in the open trucks then in use to transport Working People, the Railway Regulation Act 1844 set minimum conditions for the transport of Working People. But today means something different, anyone else got an idea. Clue is in my second post.
 
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This will be because it would be necessary to go through an enquiry and (possibly?) an act of parliament to close the service, and so they run one train a week so that they can say it is still running , thus saving a lot of money
 
mikeejee
You are correct there are a number of stations on the list, A variant of the parliamentary train service is the 'permanent' replacement bus service, as employed on the Watford and Rickmanswort Railway. This railway line in Hertfordshire was 'closed' in 1996, but to avoid the legal complications and costs of actual closure train services were 'suspended' and a bus service now runs between the stations, thus maintaining the Legal Fiction of an open railway. The track and station structures are still intact, but are now heavily overgrown and damaged by lack of maintenance. The 'rail' service still appears on the national rail ticket scheme and on the National Rail online timetables, with an accompanying note informing passengers of the replacement bus. The Croxley Rail Link plan would see this parliamentary service replaced with a full rail service.
This from Wikipedia.
 
My understanding of the definition of a Parliamentary Train is that it is run once a week to maintain the right of running that service according to the Act of Parliament. Examples in the past have included the once weekly service from Stockport to Stalybridge. It may not even be a train London Midland provided a bus replacement, until recently, between Stafford & Stone to serve Norton Bridge. Central Trains provided a taxi for the discontinued Sinfin service also.
 
A replacement bus service has run here in Helston Cornwall since Beeching closed the branch line. It runs from Redruth to Helston and the bus stop outside Redruth station is indicated as platform No 3.
 
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