"Joe" wrote in message
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I was reading up on this [subject] line about how it unofficially closed
in
1996 and officially closed last year. How were the pax told that the
service
was going to be temporarily run by a bus, or was it for works and it just
never reopened?

I don't think there were any passengers! The line had already been reduced
to one train a day for some time before it was replaced by a bus.

Peter Smyth