There are road works on the way to Hereford which mean that the village of Clehonger is cut off for the next few weeks. Instead of turning at Kingstone Post Office for the church, the bus goes straight ahead, through the village of Thruxton, and joins the main road into Hereford further out than the usual route.
Unfortunately, this road is pretty narrow.
Last week I was taking a trip to Malvern. I had about an hour between the bus arriving in Hereford and the train leaving for Malvern, so I was going to do a bit of shopping. Or I thought I had an hour, according to the timetables....
Then the bus got stuck on the diverted route.
The road is wide enough for a bus to go one way and a car or small van to go the other, but in this case there was a Pontrilas log lorry in front of us facing a wide tractor and trailer - and then the tractor had to get past us, and then we had to get past a big lorry.... Fortunately, there was a new driver on the T14, so there was another driver there to show him the route, and he was able to get off the bus to direct traffic. We were pushed so far into the hedge at that point that he couldn't get off through the normal doors, and had to use the emergency exit on the other side of the bus!
When we passed the tractor, the driver got a round of applause!
Twenty-five minutes later, we were through the traffic jam and back on the open road, but there was no chance of me doing any shopping when we got to Hereford - I stayed on the bus all the way to the railway station, and the Malvern train was already waiting at the platform!
No comments:
Post a Comment