Originally Posted by
Mr A Tis
I’m currently in the midst of a six hour expensive rail journey from Southampton to Manchester with rail replacement bus that stops a fair distance from Oxford station, in the pouring rain.
Eastern couldn’t have picked a worse time to dump the route. Anyone thinking of going by rail- forget it for the next 2 months. Missed opportunity by Eastern!
With the line closed for several more weeks between Didcot and Oxford, travel from the coast will be a mare for sure . And the bus connections are only hourly I believe - Complete disaster . You could use the local service N2/32 however takes almost a hour to cover the 8 miles through Milton Park and Abingdon .
I presume the bus service is stoping on Park End Lane as opposed to the station car park ?
I suppose you are left with the 2 hour hike to Waterloo cross town and near 3 hour on Avanti ( if that’s not cancelled as well)
Was going to suggest Emerald via Belfast or Dublin but even that doesn’t work 😡
Does anything work in these isles at all these days ?